Folks: We've made a lot of progress on our goals for v1.7. We intend to release a beta on Thursday. This beta release will be have all of the features that we intend to release in v1.7 and will not have any known regressions or critical bugs. Then we'll give ourselves ten days to test it out on various real-world deployments and look for surprises or regressions before calling it "v1.7" final on May 23. The next day, May 24, is the end of Google Summer of Code Community Bonding Period [1] and is also the day I fly to Poland to present Tahoe-LAFS at CONfidence 2010 [2].
Brian has made a lot of progress on his new downloader (#798) but it won't be quite ready in time for v1.7, so we've removed that one from the list of features intended for v1.7. We really need help from a volunteer! François has put a lot of work into making Tahoe-LAFS handle the local character encoding in both filenames and command-line arguments, but we need someone to review his patches so that they can be committed to trunk in time for v1.7. I originally said that I would do that, but I have to finish reviewing Kevan's Servers-of-Happiness patches, and fix some packaging/build issues, so we need help from someone else! The SFTP front-end is a major new feature that I'm excited about. If it works as intended, it will allow people to use Tahoe-LAFS through familiar user interfaces such as ftp clients, Gnome and KDE file managers, etc.. I'm not sure if the Mac OS X Finder can use SFTP. We need volunteers to try out the SFTP support in their favorite file manager. Ed Pimentl's offer of a bounty of $800: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-February/003802.html Jack Lloyd's offer of a bounty of $150: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-February/003807.html David-Sarah's request for clarification of what qualifies to earn the bounty: http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004053.html Here are the new features planned for v1.7: * servers of happiness (#778) * SFTP front-end (#531, #645, #941) * support different character encodings (#534, #565, #629, #734) * make the build/install work better on Windows, Windows-64-bit and on the latest Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS Regards, Zooko [1] http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/timeline [2] http://2010.confidence.org.pl/prelegenci/zooko-wilcox-ohearn http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/531# SFTP frontend needs tests http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/534# CLI (e.g. tahoe cp) does not correctly handle or display Unicode file/directory names, either in arguments or the local filesystem http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/565# unicode arguments on the command-line http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/629# 'tahoe backup' doesn't tolerate 8-bit filenames http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/645# connecting to sftp frontend using sshfs fails from linux client http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/734# Tahoe CLI with unicode patches applied fails when stdout is redirected http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/778# "shares of happiness" is the wrong measure; "servers of happiness" is better http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/798# improve random-access download to retrieve/decrypt less data http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/941# SFTP frontend fails when listing a directory containing a mutable file, because it relies on node.get_size() to be an integer _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@allmydata.org http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
