Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 27, April 21, 2012
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Announcement and News
New Packages and Download Page
Tahoe-LAFS is now packaged for Slackware. To go with the new
package, Peter Le Bek 
updated the Tahoe-LAFS download page.
Great job by all involved.
From the tahoe-dev Mailing List
Using Wuala or Dropbox as a Tahoe-LAFS backend
Zooko 
received an article about using Wuala or Dropbox as a
Tahoe-LAFS backend. The article written by Renat Garayev is in
Russian. Zooko ran "Google Translate" on the article and it works. If
the original author is on this list and/or someone could them in touch
with us, we would appreciate.
Patches Needing Review of the Week
There is one (1) ticket still needing review for 1.9.2:
- #1115: add servers-of-happiness to reports (post-repair says 10 hosts have good shares but there only 4 hosts)
There are five (5) tickets still needing review for 1.10:
- #1240: add functional test of ResponseCache
- #1161: improve new-downloader logging
- #1579: Patch to Add "Move" Functionality to Web Interface problem)
- #443: set ETag on immutable directories, short-circuit on cache hit
- #1693: flogtool doesn't get automatically provided
The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS
Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor 
. Scribes: Patrick "marlowe" McDonald 
, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn
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