[tahoe-dev] Weekly Dev Chat reports 2013-07-09 and 2013-07-16

[Basil M Kuriakose]

Can anyone help me get tahoe-LAFS installed and running on my mac?

On Tuesday, July 16, 2013, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:

> Folks: I never got around to sending my Weekly Dev Chat report for
> last week, so here is last week's followed by this week's.
>
> Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Dev Chat, 2013-07-09
>
> in attendance: Andrew, Brian, Daira, Leif, Amber, Mark, Tariq, Zancas,
> Zooko (scribe)
>
> LeastAuthority.com is about to announce a secure backup service next week.
>
> Customers (especially European customers) might ask for Europe-based
> servers instead of USA-based servers. In Zooko's opinion, this would
> not help protect those customers from NSA spying. Therefore, it is a
> conundrum for Zooko about how to respond to such requests: sell them
> what they want, or try to explain to them why in his opinion what they
> want probably doesn't actually help them?
>
> Andrew asked: when will we release Tahoe-LAFS v1.11? The Milestone on
> the trac is marked as "end of August". It is *possible* but unlikely
> that we will actually be ready then. Zooko hopes that he, Daira,
> Zancas, and Leif will be way too busy supporting thousands of new
> LeastAuthority.com customers!
>
> Brian asked: what is the headlining new change in Tahoe-LAFS v1.11?
> Daira said that for starters we definitely need to ship the fix for
> immutable server selection that Mark has done (#1382).
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382# immutable peer
> selection refactoring and enhancements
>
> We then depth-first recursed into the topic of the immutable server
> selection. We explained to Brian that Mark has already fixed it but
> there is a test that spuriously went red. We then depth-first recursed
> into fixing that unit test (which Brian is the author of and was best
> equipped to help Mark debug it).
>
> We'd like to find a replacement for Google Hangouts for video
> conferencing. Jitsi? Some future invention based on WebRTC?
>
>
>
> * find ticket about upload not stalling when server stalls
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1394# upload should not
> wait for all servers to respond
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Dev Chat, 2013-07-16
>
> in attendance: Oleksandr, Zooko (scribe), Mark, Daira, Brian
>
> Brian helped Mark fix the test that broke when Mark fixed #1382.
>
> Daira fixed ticket #2022.
>
> Zooko opened #2023.
>
> Brian will open a new ticket to describe the downloader bug discovered
> by fixing the test that was broken by fixing #1382. ☺
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382# immutable peer
> selection refactoring and enhancements
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2022# Add *.DS_Store to
> .gitignore
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2023# regression
> coincident with iputil fixes, on FreeBSD and Slackware
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