[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 28

Sat Apr 28 12:13:45 UTC 2012

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

Bounty for Speeding Up Unit Tests
- ---------------------------------

Zooko |zooko| `placed a 50 BC bounty`_ for speeding up the unit tests.
This roughly translates into $250 US with current exchange rates.  To
claim the bounty you must make the unit tests five (5) faster on Brian's
|brian| laptop without causing any code to be less covered by the
tests.  Brian's laptop running OS X with disk encryption currently take
24 minutes to complete the unit tests.  This means you need to shave 4.8
minutes off the time.

.. _`placed a 50 BC bounty`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/20#comment:13

- From the tahoe-dev Mailing List
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On the Limits of the Use Cases for Authenticated Encryption
- -----------------------------------------------------------

Zooko posted `his essay`_ on the limits of the use cases for
authenticated encryption.  The essay covers the definition of
authenticated encryption and why Zooko feels authenticated encryption
doesn't fit Tahoe-LAFS.  I highly recommend reading it.

.. _`his essay`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-April/007315.html

Patches Needing Review of the Week
==================================

There is two (2) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2:

* `#1636`_: Unhandled error in Deffered while uploading (curret darcs
  build
* `#1115`_: add servers-of-happiness to reports (post-repair says 10
  hosts have good shares but there only 4 hosts)

There are five (5) tickets still needing review for 1.10:

* `#1240`_: add functional test of ResponseCache
* `#1161`_: improve new-downloader logging
* `#1579`_: Patch to Add "Move" Functionality to Web Interface
  problem)
* `#443`_: set ETag on immutable directories, short-circuit on cache hit
* `#1693`_: flogtool doesn't get automatically provided

.. _`#1636`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1636
.. _`#1115`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1115
.. _`#1240`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1240
.. _`#1161`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1161
.. _`#1579`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1579
.. _`#443`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/443
.. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566
.. _`#1693`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693

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