Nuts+Bolts report, 02-Sep-2014

[Mark Berger]

Can someone send me the invite for the next meeting?

I'm not sure I'll be able to attend but I'll try to if you're all looking
at the happiness stuff.

Best,
Mark


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:

>
> Brian, Daira, and Nathan spend two hours triaging the 1.11 ticket
> list[1].
>
> We kicked out a few items, identified about a dozen that have patches
> that are ready to land or which can be landed with a bit of review, and
> made decisions about most of the others. The remaining issues fall into
> a couple of clusters:
>
> * "dependencies vs windows" (2193, 2028, 2005, 2249, 2247): newer
>   versions of Twisted and Nevow introduce dependencies that are hard to
>   get working on windows, so the easiest workaround is to explicitly
>   reject the latest versions of some dependencies when building on
>   windows. Not pretty, but until those upstream versions work on
>   windows, we don't have much choice.
>
> * upload-of-happiness (2008, 1124, 1130, 1382, 1830, 1814, 2060):
>   patches from Mark Berger and Kevan to improve the upload/repair
>   process. This is a big branch that we've wanted to land for years. We
>   didn't get to look at it this week, but we plan to dedicate next
>   week's Nuts+Bolts to it.
>
> * WUI layout changes: mostly tarceri's work using the Twitter Bootstrap
>   framework. We plan to land everything soon.
>
> * developer-oriented code cleanup (2281, 2282, 2067)
>
> * .tac cleanup (1159, 1539)
>
> And a handful of other cleanups. One issue is Heartbleed (2215), which
> was originally marked as "critical" and the hope was to have the node
> automatically detect whether it was using a vulnerable version of
> OpenSSL (either by examining version numbers, or by trying to attack
> itself). It's up in the air as to whether this will land or not: now
> that everyone knows about Heartbleed, the OpenSSL library on a given OS
> is probably updated, so I think it'd be ok to ship a 1.11 without a
> change. But Daira owns the ticket and will evaluate whether the partial
> branch that we have is something that can be landed in time.
>
> Our vague target is to get these changes done within the next month.
> Please don't add new tickets to the 1.11 milestone unless they're really
> blockers.
>
> cheers,
>  -Brian
>
> [1]:
>
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=1.11.0
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