[tahoe-dev] ANN: grid-updates 1.1.3

[darrob]

Hi all,

I think it might be time to give a quick update to the status of
grid-updates, a Tahoe-LAFS helper program that I introduced here a while
ago.

At the time grid-updates was a shell script.  Since then we have
rewritten it in Python, so it now works on all platforms that Tahoe-LAFS
runs on.  It also allowed us to do a couple of other things more like
Tahoe: we now use JSON subscription lists and an INI format config file.

grid-updates' purpose is to help hold together Tahoe-LAFS grids,
especially public, volunteer-only grids.  It does so by downloading
critical information from the grid.  It's core feature is downloading
and updating the node's introducer list.  Additionally it can download
news feeds from the grid.  (We successfully use this to inform users of
their wrongly configured nodes, for example.)

Subscription based repairs are a new feature we've added.  grid-updates
can download lists of Tahoe shares and repair them.  We wrote this with
group-owned shares in mind (e.g. public wikis or a group of friends'
files), but it can obviously be used for any kind of repair.

We're currently testing Tahoe 1.9.2a1 and I'm happy to report that
grid-updates' web console patch is compatible already.

We distribute packages for Windows, Arch and Debian.  You can download
grid-updates from a number of locations:

* Its main sites are:
	- http://darrob.i2p/grid-updates/
	  (without I2P try: http://darrob.i2p.to/grid-updates/)
	- http://killyourtv.i2p/grid-updates/
	  (without I2P try: http://killyourtv.i2p.to/grid-updates/)
* Git repositories in I2P:
	- http://darrob.i2p/grid-updates/grid-updates.git
	- http://killyourtv.i2p/git/grid-updates.git
	- http://git.repo.i2p/r/grid-updates.git
* I2P's Tahoe grid: URI:DIR2-RO:hgh5ylzzj6ey4a654ir2yxxblu:hzk3e5rbsefobeqhliytxpycop7ep6qlscmw4wzj5plicg3ilotq
* Debian repository inside I2P: http://killyourtv.i2p/debian/
* Ubuntu PPA: https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/i2p

darrob