-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ======================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 40, October 21 2012 ======================================================== Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: https://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN40.html Announcement and News ===================== Tahoe-LAFS Turning Six - ---------------------- Zooko |zooko| `announced Boulder, CO`_ will host a Tahoe-LAFS sixth birthday this Saturday. We will use Google Hangouts to connect parties in other locations. If you are using a Google Hangout, please ensure the Hangout works prior to Saturday. Zooko and Least Authority Enterprise |LAE| offered to supply party shirts. All you need to do is sign up for `Least Authority Enterprise`_ and show up at a physical party location. I won't be able to celebrate this year as I will be celebrating my good friend's wedding, the same day. I would love to see pictures and thoughts regarding the various parties. .. _`announced Boulder, CO`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-October/007783.html .. |LAE| image:: LAE.png :height: 35 :alt: Least Authority Enterprises :target: http://leastauthority.com .. _`Least Authority Enterprise`: https://LeastAuthority.com IPv6 Support - ------------ Eugen Leitl `inquired on IPv6 support`_ in Tahoe-LAFS. Particularly he wanted to try and run it over `cjdns`_. Currently, Tahoe-LAFS does not support IPv6 yet. `#867`_ covers implementing IPv6 on Tahoe-LAFS. Foolscap ticket `#155`_ blocks the previous ticket. Twisted ticket, `#3014`_ blocks the Foolscap ticket. .. _`inquired on IPv6 support`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-October/007762.html .. _`cjdns`: http://cjdns.info .. _`#867`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/867 .. _`#155`: http;//foolscap.lothar.com/trac/ticket/155 .. _`#3014`: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3014 - From the tahoe-dev Mailing List =============================== lafs-backup-tool, an alternative to "tahoe backup" - -------------------------------------------------- Mike Kazantsev `announced lafs-backup-tool`_. From the `README`_, lafs-backup-tool's "Intended use-case is to push most important (chosen by human) parts of already existing and static backups (stored as file trees) to lafs cloud backends." Lafs-backup-tool includes the following features which are not included in tahoe_backup.py: compression, metadata, symlinks, include and exc lude regex lists, more verbose logging and rate limiting. .. _`announced lafs-backup-tool`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2012-October/007773.html .. _`README`: https://github.com/mk-fg/lafs-backup-tool Thoughts from the Scribe ======================== This week I had a fantastic discussion with `Drew Perttula`_. Drew and I discussed the performance metrics of `PogoPlugs running Tahoe-LAFS`_. I am interested in building a Tahoe-LAFS storage grid on embedded devices as a means of cutting costs and power. Drew is exploring `Raspberry Pi`_ as an alternative. On a shopping trip to Costco, I discovered Western Digital MyBook Live which runs Debian Linux. I plan on purchasing on of these this Christmas to be one of Tahoe-LAFS nodes. I am interested if anyone else is running Tahoe-LAFS on a similar device. Please let us know. Drew, thanks for taking the time to chat with me on this. I look forward to sharing my results with you and reading yours. In addition, Drew provides `one of the best illustrations`_ of Tahoe-LAFS, I have experienced the pleasure to witness. I would love to see this incorporated into the Tahoe-LAFS web site. .. _`Drew Perttula`: http://bigasterisk.com .. _`PogoPlugs running Tahoe-LAFS`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ .. _`Raspberry Pi`: http://www.raspberrypi.org/ .. _`one of the best illustrations`: http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground/ Glowing Quotes ============== Happy to see that @zooko's request to show the TWN author some love had the desired effect - Dirk Loss Tahoe-LAFS on Twitter ===================== @KimDotcom Why not use Tahoe-LAFS? Use my disk space, give me premium credit in return? Distributed secure and UNRAIDIBLE ;) [`0`_] Had enough of this, I'm setting up a #tahoe-lafs grid, who's with me? Or have done it yourselves? [`1`_] @tahoelafs have you ever considered doing GSoC? [`2`_] The second-ever blog (after mine) which is a web app served from secure, fault-tolerant storage: http://identi.ca/url/73958251 [`3`_] .. _`0`: https://twitter.com/Alxjll/status/258958005947744256 .. _`1`: https://twitter.com/unclecj/status/259257611906605056 .. _`2`: https://twitter.com/bascule/status/259733406210994176 .. _`3`: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/260007079253798913 Patches Needing Review of the Week ================================== There are four (4) ticket still needing review for 1.10.0: * `#1539`_: stop putting pkg_resources.require() into .tac files * `#166`_: command line order is problematic * `#937`_: 'tahoe run' doesn't work for an introducer node * `#1159`_: stop using .tac files: make it possible to change appname, Python package-directory name, perhaps other names There are three (3) tickets still needing review of 1.11.0: * `#1807`_: cleanup: HUMAN_RE regexes in uri.py are never used * `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus layout problem) * `#1382`_: immutable peer selection refactoring and enhancements .. _`#1539`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1539 .. _`#166`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/166 .. _`#937`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/937 .. _`#1159`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1159 .. _`#1807`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1807 .. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265 .. _`#1382`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382 - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* |peter| *. 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Send your news stories to* `marlowe@antagonism.org`_ *b submission deadline: Friday night.* .. _marlowe@antagonism.org: mailto:marlowe@antagonism.org .. |peter| image:: psecor.jpg :height: 35 :alt: peter :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |marlowe| image:: marlowe-x75-bw.jpg :height: 35 :alt: marlowe :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs .. |zooko| image:: zooko.png :height: 35 :alt: zooko :target: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AboutUs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJQhJocAAoJEAT4nRyi0elyPFAQAPYh7vHBtHrnDcHIt58U9kTg ekhUZaPss9dOe/GzLWmJc5OAVp6iUax5c5UnbMQtS/4/CI3fZcYrDhf6CRFLab1M n1iBjgjCkUaV9G0XByQbTSeBw4fCAB0xBKZTfjWuGejcH9S1ea5d+i5eMiLpikvm sQnq846fnHAdH/ktTJCFDFNBYWWesZMh1FwY3XII/iOJtAXnNv73VqYAPwKkGwRB tHSWw6KSP95r/xpAs1aJUVRXUm1D5Lr2+XW9lovlRwvqEbPiSI2hnVwDQm9SoFO/ HwA/1p5LvOaHVgosIPBvFDAn4cJk7N3Dpi25u9id500221v0LUxO0CnOp+MKNAFP XZwLax7hJ288rSBCtulw6F6vKmk548PCzhRDMMIXly60Mxxl/pK61950RIldpL1H zucQ7R4A+1KKUILz/TKbhNxJEpmfLln8r0C0QXPohZwSmxODLdtJXc9mf4W/PhlB d7CmXjghhwPIN086s2qGwyaKq1B50Iq53FF092S0Raz0ZrNMrdC1PrlqR5G1feQg FuyvmPUHIoVSwH0elpvhsTSzVTWYvvBhCYHtNQXBZTel630x0Rlqd/OTlbtWvfxw jqsxQLn+KMqxHGN6uhkx7DjwxUy+kk3nXpRUOCTbbZOUTDhBr14gsK473x6kJeLr 5jBRlzq/EmpERsc23ehZ =FDYy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tahoe-lafs-weekly-news mailing list tahoe-lafs-weekly-news@tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE