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
  • redirect to tahoe-lafs.org: tahoe-lafs.com, tahoelafs.org
  • 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/
• DARCS SCM for some of the above Trac projects:
  • ​https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/
  • Highly likely obsolete
• Binary repository for Tahoe-LAFS release:
  • ​https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads