[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 34

Mon Jun 25 23:16:39 UTC 2012

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

Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 alpha Released for Testing
- -------------------------------------------

Zooko |zooko| `announced the release of Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 alpha` for
testing.  Please `download the tarball`_ for testing.  At last check,
this release `closed over 44 tickets`_.  This makes it the biggest
"micro" release of Tahoe-LAFS ever.

.. |zooko| image:: zooko.png
   :height: 35
   :alt: Zooko
   :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs

.. _`announced the release of Tahoe-LAFS 1.9.2 alpha`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-June/007480.html
.. _`download the tarball`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/snapshots/allmydata-tahoe-1.9.2a1.tar.gz
.. _`closed over 44 tickets`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-June/007455.html

Foolscap-0.6.4 Released
- -----------------------

Brian |brian| `released Foolscap-0.6.4`_.  The release includes the
following changes:

* The unreliable 'extras_require' property in setup.py, which allowed
  other python programs to declare a dependency on foolscap's
  "secure_connections" feature, was removed. See README.packagers for
  alternate instructions. (`#174`_)
* 'flogtool' log-dumping commands (dump, tail, web-viewer) now accept a
  consistent --timestamps= argument to control how event times are
  displayed (UTC, local, seconds-since-epoch, etc). (`#192`_, `#193`_)
* Certain invalid "location" strings (accepted by Tub.setLocation and put
  into FURLs) are rejected earlier, and with better error messages. The
  error message produced when 'flogtool dump' is given a FURL-file
  (instead of an event log file) has been improved.
* The Incident Gatherer will tolerate incident-file errors better,
  fetching remaining incidents instead of halting. (`#190`_)
* The git-over-foolscap tools were cleaned up, and the documentation was
  brought into line with the implementation. (`#197`_)
* Other minor bugs were fixed: `#179`_, `#191`_, `#194`_, `#195`_,
  `#196`_

.. |brian| image:: warner.png
   :height: 35
   :alt: Brian Warner
   :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs

.. _`released Foolscap-0.6.4`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-June/007474.html
.. _`#174`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/174
.. _`#192`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/192
.. _`#193`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/193
.. _`#190`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/190
.. _`#197`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/197
.. _`#179`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/179
.. _`#191`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/191
.. _`#194`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/194
.. _`#195`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/195
.. _`#196`: http://foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/196

Glowing Quotes
==============

“Tahoe-LAFS is an amazing piece of work!” — Pål Ruud

Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter
=====================

"Okay, okay, Tahoe-LAFS *is* actually a filesystem. I'm just grumpy
because the POSIX FS API can't express some of LAFS's good parts."
[`0`_]

"Tahoe-LAFS is like Bittorrent except you can upload in addition to
download. I'm changing the name to "Tahoe-LABT"." [`1`_]

"Having fun working on the imminent Tahoe-LAFS v1.9.2 release:
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.2" [`2`_]

.. _`0`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/215069506622603265
.. _`1`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/215067473073020928
.. _`2`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/214754998729445376

- From the tahoe-dev Mailing List
===============================

Announcing RentaNode.nl
- -----------------------

Guido Witmond `announced RentaNode.nl`.  Rentanode.nl allows users to
rent private Tahoe-LAFS storage grids on geographically spread servers.

"Each customer gets their 'own' grid so they will have full control over
access control, n-of-k encoding, data retention (garbage collection) and
even introducer-rekeying. An introducer node is included for free to
help those behind NAT-routers. Or bring your own."

Customers of Least Authority Enterprise (LAE) |LAE| can use Rentanode.nl
services in conjunction by setting LAE's introducer as described
`here`_.

.. _`announced RenatNode.nl`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-June/007467.html

.. |LAE| image:: LAE.png
   :height: 35
   :alt: Least Authority Enterprises
   :target: http://leastauthority.com

.. _`here`:
   https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-June/007469.html

Article on Tahoe-LAFS
- ---------------------

Saint Germain included Tahoe-LAFS in their `article on free backup
software with deduplication`.  The article is in French.  If someone
could provided a translated copy, it would be greatly appreciated.

.. _`article on free backup software with deduplication`:
   http://linuxfr.org/news/r-evolutions-dans-le-monde-de-la-sauvegarde-de-donnees

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

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

* `#1778`_: increase maximum mutable share size
* `#1115`_: add servers-of-happiness to reports (post-repair says 10
  hosts have good shares but there only 4 hosts)

There are six (6) ticket still needing review for 1.10.0:

* `#1777`_: cleanups to tests and mutables for 1.10
* `#166`_: command line order is problematic
* `#937`_: 'tahoe run' doesn't work for an introducer node
* `#1539`_: stop putting pkg_resources.require() into .tac files
* `#1159`_: stop using .tac files: make it possible to change appname,
  Python package-directory name, perhaps other names
* `#1693`_: flogtool doesn't get automatically provided

There are two (2) tickets still needing review of 1.11.0:

* `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus
  layout problem)
* `#1382`_: immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements

.. _`#1778`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1778
.. _`#1115`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1115
.. _`#1777`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1777
.. _`#166`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/166
.. _`#937`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/937
.. _`#1539`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1539
.. _`#1159`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1159
.. _`#1693`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1693
.. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265
.. _`#1382`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382

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