Folks: With the help of new volunteer Patrick McDonald, we're going to start publishing the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News. You can see the inaugural edition in HTML form (attached), in .rst source form (appended), or on the web at http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/TWN1.html .
We will *not* be sending the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News to p2p-hackers every week. Instead we'll set up a site with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to if you want. Oh, in fact, maybe we should create a new mailing list named tahoe-lafs-weekly-n...@tahoe-lafs.org that people can subscribe to if they want the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News in their inbox. Is anyone out there interested? Let us know: Patrick McDonald <marl...@antagonism.org>, Zooko <zo...@zooko.com>, or tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org. Regards, Zooko .. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ========================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1 ========================================== Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes. Announcements and News ====================== Brian Warner is the release manager for 1.9.0_. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF_) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features: * efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans * fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans * allow more than one segment's worth of data .. _1.9.0: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 .. _MDMF: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently fifteen_ tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This page_ covers how to review a patch. .. _fifteen: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~review-needed&group=milestone&col=id&col=summary&col=keywords&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=time&col=changetime&desc=1&order=changetime .. _page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco. The volunteergrid2_ is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. .. _volunteergrid2: http://www.bigpig.org Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released_ the code for webdrive. Webdrive_ is a JavaScript UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData. .. _released: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html .. _WebDrive: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS `iPhone client`_. .. _iPhone client: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation. Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that git-annex_ can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See `The RelatedProjects Page`_ on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. .. _git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ .. _The RelatedProjects Page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects .. Please change this version number whenever you edit this file! .. version: 2.1Title: Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1
Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes.
Announcements and News
Brian Warner is the release manager for 1.9.0. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features:
- efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans
- fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans
- allow more than one segment's worth of data
Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently fifteen tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This page covers how to review a patch.
Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco.
The volunteergrid2 is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity.
Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the code for webdrive. Webdrive is a _javascript_ UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData.
Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS iPhone client.
Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation.
Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that git-annex can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See The RelatedProjects Page on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks.
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