TWN45

[marlowe at antagonism.org]

Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 45, October 27 2015
========================================================

Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN).  Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure,
distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_.
If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with
pictures; please take a `look`_.

.. _Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org
.. _View TWN on the web:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews
.. _subscribe to TWN:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news
.. _look: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN45.html

Announcement and News
=====================

New Features
------------

We are very interested in hearing what you would like to see in TWN.
Please feel free to let us know through the mailing list, IRC, or email
Patrick directly at marlowe at antagonism.org. We already plan to include
interviews with release managers on upcoming releases and developers who
are contributing new patches as well as interesting/related tweets. Please
send your feedback and let us know how we can do better.

Nuts & Bolts
============

SUMMARY:

A special thank you to Zooko for providing the meeting notes on Tuesday's
meeting.

Note: If you attend either of the Nuts & Bolts meetings, please email
Patrick your notes at the above email address, you will get credit and his
undying gratitude

Tuesday Meeting
---------------
Next Tuesday's Nuts & Bolts Party (the 27th) will be a special occasion
where Leif Ryge will join us and we'll merge a patch from his Truckee
branch into Tahoe trunk.

Mailing List
============

Jean-Rene David posted a thread about `using Tahoe-LAFS as a git remote`_.
 In addition, there were bug threads regarding the `introducer web page`_
and
`OpenSuse 13.2`_.

.. _`using Tahoe-LAFS as a git remote`:
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2015-October/009594.html
.. _`introducer web page`:
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2015-October/009590.html
.. _`OpenSuse 13.2`_:
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2015-October/009592.html

Patches Needing Review
======================

* `#1382`_: Zooko's top priority: ddland the improved servers-of-happiness
* make MDMF the default version of distributed mutable files
* `#573`_: land Lin Shu's work on Server Selection
* `#1819`_: land LeastAuthority's work on Cloud Backendvers-of-happiness

.. _`#1382`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382
.. _`#573`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/573
.. _`#1819`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1819

*The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS*
Wilcox-O'Hearn* |zooko| *, Editor Emeritus: Zooko.* `View TWN on the
web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_ *. Send your news stories to*

.. _marlowe at antagonism.org: mailto:marlowe at antagonism.org
.. |peter| image:: psecor.jpg
   :height: 35
   :alt: peter
   :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs
.. |marlowe| image:: marlowe-x75-bw.jpg
   :height: 35
   :alt: marlowe
   :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs
.. |zooko| image:: zooko.png
   :height: 35
   :alt: zooko
   :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs