[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1116: make the servers-of-happiness error message less confusing

[tahoe-lafs]

#1116: make the servers-of-happiness error message less confusing
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     Reporter:  kevan    |      Owner:  kevan
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  1.11.0
    Component:  code-    |    Version:  1.7.0
  peerselection          |   Keywords:  easy unfinished-business usability
   Resolution:           |  error servers-of-happiness upload
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Description changed by zooko:

Old description:

> When it fails to find a satisfactory share layout, the peer selection
> process for immutable files prints out a message explaining why. In that,
> it counts servers that did not accept shares that they were asked to as
> full. This is slightly confusing, since the servers may not be full, but
> instead may just have too little free space to accept shares of the size
> it was asked to accept. The error message should be changed to reflect
> this.
>
> (this was first reported in http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-
> dev/2010-July/004656.html)

New description:

 When it fails to find a satisfactory share layout, the peer selection
 process for immutable files prints out a message explaining why. In that,
 it counts servers that did not accept shares that they were asked to as
 full. This is slightly confusing, since the servers may not be full, but
 instead may just have too little free space to accept shares of the size
 it was asked to accept. The error message should be changed to reflect
 this.

 (this was first reported in [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004656.html
 https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-July/004656.html])

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