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@ -38,13 +38,13 @@ easily addressed with what we have. Students taking this project would be
building tools to address those use cases.
A good starting point would be to become familiar with how files are placed on
a grid. [architecture.txt](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/architecture.txt),
[file-encoding.txt](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/specifications/file-encoding.txt),
[mutable.txt](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/specifications/mutable.txt),
[the immutable file upload code](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/src/allmydata/immutable/upload.py), and
[the mutable file upload code](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/src/allmydata/mutable/publish.py) are good
a grid. [architecture.txt]source:docs/architecture.txt,
[file-encoding.txt]source:docs/specifications/file-encoding.txt,
[mutable.txt]source:docs/specifications/mutable.txt,
[the immutable file upload code]source:src/allmydata/immutable/upload.py, and
[the mutable file upload code]source:src/allmydata/mutable/publish.py are good
places to do that. Also, you might want to look at the
[storage server code](http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/src/allmydata/storage/server.py) to understand that
[storage server code]source:src/allmydata/storage/server.py to understand that
better. Some good tickets to start looking at are #699, #543, and #232; you'll
find that those link to other tickets.
@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ There are many ways to help address these issues. Some ideas:
* Alter Tahoe-LAFS to rebalance mutable files when uploading a new version
of them. (#232)
Any one of these projects is probably too small to fill a summer, but combined they would be a big usability improvement for Tahoe-LAFS.
Any one of these projects is probably too small to fill a summer, but combining a few of them would be a big usability improvement for Tahoe-LAFS.
Depending on how you address this, this is tightly integrated with ideas of
file health and accounting, so prospective students would do well to explore
@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ Implement a protocol for distributed introduction, thus removing the only remain
# Mentors
*Who is willing to spend about five hours a week (estimated) helping a student do it right?*
<br>
* [Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn](http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html) (Python/C/C++/JavaScript, cryptography) [<zooko@zooko.com>]mailto:zooko@zooko.com
* [Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net) (C/C++/Python, cryptography)
* [Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn](http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html) (Python/C/C++/JavaScript, security+cryptography) [<zooko@zooko.com>]mailto:zooko@zooko.com
* [Jack Lloyd](http://www.randombit.net) (C/C++/Python, security+cryptography)
* [David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org (Python/C/JavaScript, SFTP frontend, security+cryptography)
* [Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com (Python/C/JavaScript, security+cryptography)
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