= Development Infrastructure =

As defined in ComponentDefinitions:

> things that help us build Tahoe, like the buildbot, the automated speed/memory/code-coverage tests (and the web pages which display their results), the IRC channels and mailing lists, and this Trac bugtracker itself.


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As of this writing, the Tahoe-LAFS project relies on a few services described in the 2 categories below.

=== SaaS: hosted by 3rd parties ===

* DNS domains:
  * mainly: tahoe-lafs.org
  * aside with: lafs.club
  * provided by Gandi.net

* Code hosting:
  * main project lives here: https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs
  * contributors need an existing Trac ticket number to create PR
  * more projects lives there:
    * https://github.com/tahoe-lafs
    * https://gitlab.com/tahoe-lafs

* Web hosting:
  * https://tahoe-lafs.readthedocs.io/: most of the Taho-LAFS documentation lives in the Git and ends up here

* Mailing list:
  * https://lists.tahoe-lafs.org/mailman/listinfo: MailMan provided byosuosl.org

=== IaaS: self-hosted ===

As today, a single virtual server instance provided by Linode/Akamai is running the following self-hosted services:

* Trac project management
  * mainly: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs
    * WikiStart page is used as the **landing page** for https://tahoe-lafs.org/
    * Wiki pages are also used to publish **news**, **FAQs** and some part of the **documentation**
    * Ticket subsystem **in use**
    * Version Control subsystem **connected** to https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs
  * aside with 7 other projects:
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/darcsver: likely **obsolete**
      * meejah: looks like it was _never_ used; delete
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/dupfilefind: only as homepage pointing to http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dupfilefind
      * meejah: delete trac data; bonus for redirect to the PyPI page
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp: likely **obsolete**
      * meejah: delete trac data; bonus for redirect to wherever pycrptopp dev happens now
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pyutil: likely **obsolete** and replaced by https://github.com/tpltnt/pyutil
      * meejah: ???
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/stringchain: likely **broken**
      * meejah: ???
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tiddly_on_tahoe: likely **broken**
      * meejah: old project of zooko
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/zfec: likely **broken** 
      * there more (and more-recent) tickets, PRs and data all on GitHub .. we should prefer that
* Buildbot master instances:
  * mainly: https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-tahoe-lafs/
  * aside with:
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/ 
    * https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-zfec/
  * and possibly more related to https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/: likely **obsolete** Darcs SCM