see also wiki:NewbieDeveloperSetup, wiki:Manual, and wiki:Doc

= Dev =

Views into the process of Tahoe-LAFS hackery.
 * The Roadmap page (linked at the top of each page) shows the next planned release and what improvements and bugfixes we are working on.
 * [wiki:Doc The User Doc page]

== Source Code (via revision control) ==

 * Darcs checkout:
     {{{darcs get --lazy https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs}}}
 * [https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs git checkout] (EXPERIMENTAL!) announced [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-October/005408.html here]:
     {{{git clone git://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git}}}

== Community ==

 * [/../../cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev The tahoe-dev mailing list] is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe-LAFS design, implementation, and usage.
 * Tahoe-LAFS hackers chat on [irc://irc.freenode.net/%23tahoe-lafs irc.freenode.net in channel #tahoe-lafs]. This channel is archived at [http://fred.submusic.ch/irc/tahoe-lafs/] .
 * [source:CREDITS The CREDITS file] contains names people who have contributed to the Tahoe-LAFS project.
 * [wiki:RelatedProjects The RelatedProjects page] has extensions to Tahoe-LAFS and integrations of Tahoe-LAFS with other open source software.

== Extensions ==

 * Tahoe-LAFS has a programmatic API which enables building custom applications on top of the storage infrastructure.
 * The [source:docs/frontends/webapi.rst] document shows how to control a Tahoe-LAFS node programmatically over HTTP.
 * [wiki:Extensions The Extension Page] has some additional tips on how to use the web-API.

== Developer Docs ==

=== Design of the System ===
 * [http://code.google.com/p/nilestore/wiki/TahoeLAFSBasics TahoeLAFSBasics] on the Nilestore Project's site. This document was written by someone from another project who hasn't really interacted with the Tahoe-LAFS developers much, but it is the best overall introduction to the design of Tahoe-LAFS.
 * after that, look at the "Presentations / Papers", below, or at the "architecture.rst" file in the docs/ directory.

=== Presentations / Papers ===
 * [//trac/tahoe-lafs/attachment/wiki/News/tahoe-RSA-slides.pdf] presented at RSA 2010
 * [//~zooko/lafs.pdf Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem] presented at [http://storagess.org/2008 Storage Security and Survivability '08]
 * [//~warner/pycon-tahoe.html Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem] presented at
   [http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/ PyCon2008],
   providing an overview of the Tahoe-LAFS design, and the
   [//~warner/pycon-tahoe-slides.zip slides] (.zip) that
   were used for the presentation
 * [http://www.cs.utk.edu/~plank/plank/papers/FAST-2009.html  A Performance Evaluation and Examination of Open-Source Erasure Coding Libraries For Storage] to be presented at [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast09  FAST-2009: 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies]

=== How To Contribute To The Tahoe-LAFS Project ===
 * [wiki:PatchReviewProcess How to review patches] <-- You can help!
 * [wiki:Patches How to submit patches]
 * [wiki:CodingStandards coding standards]
 * [wiki:HowToWriteTests How to write tests]

=== Cool New Ideas We're Working On ===
 * [wiki:Ostrom] is about how social networking and economics interact with distributed storage
 * [wiki:OneHundredYearCryptography]

=== More Details To Look Up While Working On Your Contribution ===
 * [source:docs/ the docs/ directory] <-- most core doc is in the source tree here
 * [wiki:Capabilities]: what are readcaps and writecaps and verifycaps, etc
 * [wiki:Packaging The Packaging page] shows our current policy for how to re-use 3rd-party libraries and how to distribute Tahoe-LAFS to users.

== Tools ==
 * [//cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-trac-stream tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] mailing list is the way to receive lots of emails from trac
 * Sources for Tahoe-LAFS and its side-projects are browsable via the "Browse Source" button at the top of each [//trac project site]
 * there is an experimental git mirror of the darcs repository (not necessarily up-to-date) [http://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs on github].
 * [//source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs/ https://source/tahoe-lafs/tarballs] contains snapshots of current source code.
 * The Buildbot page (linked at the top of each page) shows current build and test results.  See the BuildbotPolicy page and [wiki:HowtoContributeABuildbot] page.
 * The Timeline (linked at the top of each page) shows changes to the source code, the issue tickets, and the wiki (i.e. this web site).

== Dependencies ==

 * Copies of libraries that Tahoe-LAFS is dependent on are at [//source/tahoe-lafs/deps/].
 * The [//source/tahoe-lafs/deps/tahoe-dep-eggs tahoe-dep-eggs] subdirectory has precompiled "egg" packages (scroll to the bottom for a matrix of platforms and Python versions for each package).


== Metrics ==

 * [wiki:Performance The Performance page] has notes and graphs about performance measurements.
 * [wiki:TestGrid The TestGrid page] contains usage statistics about the public test grid.

== See Also == 

 * [wiki:News The News page] for sources of news and information.
 * [wiki:Bibliography The Bibliography page] contains links to scientific papers of interest.
 * [wiki:RelatedProjects The RelatedProjects page] contains links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.
 * [wiki:ResearchVenues The ResearchVenues page] contains a list of conferences and other venues where Tahoe-LAFS is a potential topic of interest.
 * TahoeVsDebianBuggyOpenSsl for details about Tahoe-LAFS's mild vulnerability to
   the recent (May 2008) Debian OpenSSL problems.
 * [wiki:GSoCIdeas Google Summer of Code Ideas]

==== Papers By Others About Tahoe-LAFS or Derivatives ====

 * [https://github.com/zerqent/cloud-storage-vault/blob/master/report/main.pdf?raw=true Cloud Storage Vault—Master's Thesis] by Haver, Melvold, Ruud
 * [//pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-February/006157.html Experimenting with SHA-3 candidates in Tahoe-LAFS] by Haver, Ruud