release 1.7.1

[davidsarah]

• NEWS: done
• CREDITS: done
• relnotes.txt: done
• docs/quickstart.html: done
• docs/known_issues.txt: done
• tag 1.7.1: done
• link allmydata-tahoe-1.7.1[-SUMO].{zip,{tar.{gz,bz2}}: done
• front page: done
• wiki:News: done

[davidsarah]

relnotes.txt, docs/quickstart.html: prepare for 1.7.1 release. Don't claim to work on Cygwin (this might work but is untested). Also update release version and date in docs/known_issues.txt.

[davidsarah]

Supported builders are currently green (apart from packaging the Mac app bundle/dmg, which hasn't worked for a while).

[zooko]

reviewed doc patch and it looks good except how about change

v1.7.1 is a minor release with some small bugfixes and code
clean-ups. See the NEWS file [2] for details.

to

v1.7.1 is a stable minor release which adds several bugfixes, extensions, and improvements in security, forward-compatibility, usability, and portability. See the NEWS file [2] for details.

If you want I'll make that change and commit the patch from here.

[zooko]

tagged 1.7.1: 7e8bb7339109c8c7

[zooko]

Okay! I've done all my release chores (see below). Thanks a lot to David-Sarah for helping out with the release chores!

[x] 1 update doc files: relnotes.txt, CREDITS, docs/known_issues.txt, NEWS. Add release name and date to top-most item in NEWS.
[x] 2 change docs/quickstart.html to point to just the current allmydata-tahoe-X.Y.Z.zip source code file, or else to point to a directory which contains only allmydata-tahoe-X.Y.Z.* source code files
[x] 3 darcs pull
[x] 4 make tag
[x] 5 make sure buildbot is green
[x] 6 make sure other people aren't committing at that moment
[x] 7 push tag along with some other patch to trigger buildslaves
[x] 8 make sure buildbot is green
[-] 9 make sure debs got built and uploaded properly
[x] 10 make sure a sumo sdist tarball got built and uploaded properly
[x] 11 symlink the release tarball on tahoe-lafs.org: /var/www/source/tahoe-lafs/releases/
[x] 12 update Wiki: front page news, news, old news, parade of release notes
[ ] 13 send out relnotes.txt: [x] tahoe-announce@tahoe-lafs.org, [x] tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org, [x] p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com, [x] lwn@lwn.net, [x] cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org, [x] cryptography@metzdown.com & cryptography@randombit.net, [x] twisted-python@twistedmatrix.com, [x] owncloud@kde.org, [x] the "decentralization" group on groups.yahoo.com, [x] pycrypto mailing list, -> fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, -> fuse-sshfs@lists.sourceforge.net, [ ] duplicity-talk@nongnu.org, [x] news@phoronix.com, [x] python-list@python.org, -> cygwin@cygwin.com, [x] The Boulder Linux Users' Group, [x] The Boulder Hackerspace mailing list, [x] cryptopp-users@googlegroups.com, [x] tiddlywiki, [x] hadoop, [x] bzr, [x] mercurial
[x] 14 update hacktahoe.org
[x] 15 make an "announcement of new release" on freshmeat
[x] 16 upload to pypi with "python ./setup.py sdist upload register"
[x] 17 update "current version" information and make an "announcement of new release" on launchpad
[x] 18 close the Milestone on the trac Roadmap