[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN24

[Patrick R McDonald]

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Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 23, February 04, 2012
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Free/Open Source Project of the Week
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The Free/Open Source Project of the Week is `Cryptosphere`_.

  "The Cryptosphere is a global peer-to-peer cryptosystem for publishing and
  securely distributing content anonymously with no central point of failure.
  The system is openly federated and anyone can join. To ensure quality
  service and prevent abuse, the Cryptosphere uses an integrated
  cryptographically secure reputation system which provides a distributed web
  of trust." [`1`_]

Cryptosphere, Tahoe-LAFS and `Freenet`_ share similar goals.  Cryptosphere's
creator cites Tahoe-LAFS has a source of inspiration for Cryptosphere's
design.  Cryptosphere hopes to strike a balance between Freenet and
`MojoNation`_.

.. _`Cryptosphere`: https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere
.. _`1`: https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphare
.. _`Freenet`: http://freenetproject.org/
.. _`MojoNation`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MojoNation

From the tahoe-dev Mailing List
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Tahoe-LAFS on Drobo FS
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Mogwa posted to the list regarding `Tahoe-LAFS on Drobo FS`_.  Tahoe-LAFS
runs on other embedded devices such a `SS4000-E NAS box running under Debian
Squeeze`_ and `PogoPlug`_.

.. _`Tahoe-LAFS on Drobo FS`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-February/007015.html
.. _`SS4000-E NAS box running under Debian Squeeze`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-tahoe-lafs/builders/FranXois%20lenny-armv5tel
.. _`PogoPlug`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2009-November/003157.html

Patches Needing Review of the Week
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There is one (1) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2:

* `#1648`_: assertion failure 'assert len(self._active_readers) >=
  self._required_shares' in mutable retrieve

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

* `#393`_: mutable: implement MDMF
* `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus layout
  problem)
* `#1398`_: make docs/performance.rst more precise and accurate
* `#1566`_: if a stored share has a corrupt header, other shares held by that
  server for the file should still be accessible to clients
* `#1569`_: rerecord and review pluggable backends for landing on trunk

.. _`#1648`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1648
.. _`#393`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393
.. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265
.. _`#1398`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1398
.. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566
.. _`#1569`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1569

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