[p2p-hackers] announcing bThe Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Newsb

Sat May 28 05:12:12 PDT 2011

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 at 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
<marlowe at antagonism.org>, Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>, or
tahoe-dev at tahoe-lafs.org.

Regards,

Zooko

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==========================================
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

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