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-news@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 , Zooko , or tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org. Regards, Zooko o;?.. -*- 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: 2.1 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]1.9.0. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files ([2]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 [3]fifteen tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This [4]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 [5]volunteergrid2 is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData [6]released the code for webdrive. [7]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 [8]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 [9]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 [10]The RelatedProjects Page on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. References 1. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 2. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 3. 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 4. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess 5. http://www.bigpig.org/ 6. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html 7. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser 8. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client 9. http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ 10. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- 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