[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 44 - Return of TWN

[marlowe at antagonism.org]

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Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 44, October 20 2015
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Announcement and News
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Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News Returns
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After a far too long absence, Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN) returns.  We are
excited to be back and working with such a fantastic project and community.
Our goal is to deliver you all the Tahoe-LAFS news fit to print by 0900 PST
Tuesday.

Nuts & Bolts
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SUMMARY:

A special thank you to Zooko for providing the meeting notes to both
Tuesday and
Friday's meetings.

Tuesday Meeting
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In attendance: Brian, Daira, David, Meejah, Zooko (scribe)

* Tahoe-LAFS is `broken`_ in Ubuntu due to a packaging issue that is
already fixed
in Tahoe-LAFS trunk, but the fix hasn't been imported into Ubuntu.

Brian's storage server reports 18446744073.71GB available space. After we
confirmed with Brian that he does *not* have a moon-sized storage array, we
opened a `ticket`_ about this bug.

* Spam keeps getting added to our trac. We're going to give up on defending
it and migrate to Github. The Twisted project is doing the same, so we're
going
to try and ride on their coat-tails (i.e. to use their tools and learn from
their experiences) in order to preserve all of our precious data and history
through the migration.

Friday Meeting
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In attendance: Daira, Zooko (scribe)

We rebased the Cloud Backend branch to the current trunk. It is *almost*
done,
but there are still a few unit test failures and the current version uses a
testing ("mock") that we want to remove before merging it into trunk.

.. _`broken`:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tahoe-lafs/+bug/1452689
.. _`ticket`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2532

Patches Needing Review of the Week
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* make MDMF the default version of distributed mutable files
* `#573`_: land Lin Shu's work on Server Selection
* `#1819`_: land LeastAuthority's work on Cloud Backendvers-of-happiness
.. _`#1382`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382
.. _`#573`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/573
.. _`#1819`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1819

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