Friday, 04/29

Notes were kindly provided by Brian Warner.

Attendees: meejah, warner, ramki (dropped out due to audio problems)

We still trying to find workable videochat. Used appear.in today, meejah got connected alright but ramki couldn't get audio working in both directions at the same time.

We talked about "tahoe create-server" arguments for setting hostname, Tor options, etc (ticket #2773). We settled on:

• if you have a public IP address, run "tahoe create-server --hostname=HOST", and it will allocate a port for you
• if you can configure a firewall port-forwarding, use "--location=tcp:EXTHOST:EXTPORT --port=tcp:INTPORT"
• if you have neither, but do have Tor, and all your clients can use Tor, do "--listen-tor"

We talked about a "server setup wizard" mode, which would try multiple things (ifconfig, UPnP), guide the user through port-forwarding settings, and could confirm conntectivity by having a tahoe-lafs.org-hosted service attempt to connect to the purported FURL. Then it starts the service and provide instructions/automation to bring the server up automatically at next boot cron jobs, systemd scripts, OS-X LaunchAgent config, etc).

Brian showed off an event-timeline visualization tool I built for magic-wormhole, similar to Tahoe's "recent uploads and downloads" download-timeline view. A zoomable timeline that shows where the command is waiting for network, where it waits for user input, and can guide optimization efforts.

Gus Andrews and Cypher will join us next tuesday to talk UX

Tuesday, 05/03

Attendees: Brian Warner, cypher, David Stainton, Gus Andrews, meejah, Patrick McDonald

We discussed our answers to the questions Gus posed on the tahoe-dev mailing list. Gus and cypher provided the answers to the questions they received at IFF. I found it very eye opening to see the differences between how I envisioned our eyes and who those potential users were. A special thanks goes to Gus and Cypher for sharing this. As a result of this work, cypher has a list of issues for Gridsync. In addition, cypher is applying for 12 months of funding to improve Gridsync.

removing the "key-generator" node

Brian described the idea of removing the "key-generator" node. #2783 describes the issue in greater detail.

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