[tahoe-dev] Hack Fest next Saturday! RSVP!

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

A couple of people asked me to organize a Hack Fest in Boulder,  
Colorado. One of them is a PyPy hacker with an interest in Tahoe-LAFS  
and the other is a launchpad/bzr/web/ui hacker with an interest in  
Tahoe-LAFS. So: we're going to do some Tahoe-LAFS hacking next  
Saturday (a week from now)! RSVP right away if you are going to  
attend the Boulder, Colorado location so I know how big of a meeting  
room I need to find. Also if you are going to organize parallel  
simultaneous Hack Fest let us know. (I hear that there is quite a bit  
of interest among San Franciscans, and also among Brits.)

I think the primary activity at the Boulder location will be  
exploring how to reduce Tahoe-LAFS's dependency on CPython (the  
mainstream Python implementation), by some combination of:

1. Making ctypes-based interfaces instead of CPythonAPI-based  
interfaces to pycryptopp and zfec.
2. Replacing pycryptopp and zfec with pure-Python equivalents.
3. Implementing support for a subset of the CPythonAPI in PyPy.

Also pyOpenSSL is a third native-code dependency that Tahoe-LAFS has.  
I'm not sure how to approach that one, though. My fond hope is that  
we will implement #510 and stop requiring OpenSSL at all. (That is a  
bigger job than we can do in a one-day Hack Fest next Saturday,  
although it might be fun to start.)

Regards,

Zooko

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/510# use plain HTTP for  
storage server protocol?