first alpha tagged: 1.11.0a1

[Brian Warner]

I just tagged allmydata-tahoe-1.11.0a1, the first alpha of the upcoming
release. Tarballs should be available shortly in:

 https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs/

It should be possible to install this (in a virtualenv) with pip, as in:

 pip install
https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs/allmydata-tahoe-1.11.0a1.tar.bz2

You can also do a "git clone" and then "pip install ." from the source tree.

The docs are still a bit rough, and there are some packaging issues that
still need fixing. I'm planning to remove the SUMO tarballs and the
desert-island build (replacing them with instructions on using the pip
wheel cache). A lot of tickets can be closed because of the move to pip,
and these need to be documented in NEWS.rst.

But I'd really appreciate people giving this one a spin and letting us
know about any problems. Please file tickets on trac and assign them to
the "1.11.0" milestone: we'll triage them elsewhere if necessary.

BTW: I decided that the release should be named "1.11.0" instead of
"1.10.3" because the pip change is pretty significant (not to overall
functionality, but definitely to how users should install it). I've
renamed the other milestones accordingly.

thanks,
 -Brian