project status?

[dawuud]

> Hi Folks,

Hi!

> I haven't seen much activity on this list of late, and the last release was
> back in January - which leads me to wonder the current status of Tahoe-LAFS.

Yes, I agree that the Tahoe mailing list is rather quiet for long streches of time.
Of course Tahoe-LAFS is still actively being developed and you can easily see
all of this activity on the master branch on github:

https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/commits/master

I'm sorry if I got the wrong idea from your e-mail... but it sounded like you
are asking if the project is abandoned.

> On a broader note, I wonder about how many people/organizations are using
> Tahoe-LAFS in a production mode (beyond Least Authority).  I'm very

That's a very good question. Companies besides leastauthority; I'm not so sure.
I heard of at least two... but I don't recall the company names. Maybe they'll
chime in and write to this mailing list thread to say they exist.

> interested in maturity, readiness for prime time, the largest installation

The project has been around for a while. 10 years? I am not the best person
to answer these questions... so I hope Brian Warner or someone else can tell us
how long the project has been around. I know there's been stable releases for many years.

> currently in operation, and any scaling/stress testing that's been done. 

I don't know what you mean by scaling testing. But maybe someone else will chime
in with some insight.

> (In the wake of CrashPlan going out of the consumer backup business, I'm

I've never heard of CrashPlan before. Is their software open source?
I wasn't able to find any source code. I feel very strongly that proprietary
crypto software shouldn't be taken seriously because of lack of peer review.

> starting to think that it's time for somebody to set up a very-large-scale,
> cooperative, persistent storage fabric.  Tahoe-LAFS sure looks like the

By fabric I guess you mean infrastructure? I love the idea of storage infrastructure
allowing a great many people to share files. It's a very fun idea that we haven't yet
implemented. There's some ideas floating around about how to do this.

> leading candidate for a platform.  Kind of wondering about how real that
> assessment is.)

I cannot comment on this last part.

> Thanks much,
> 
> Miles Fidelman

Cheers!
David
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