[tahoe-dev] An additional bounty for an SFTP interface (Was: barriers to using tahoe)

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

Thanks for the follow-up, Jack!

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jack Lloyd <lloyd at randombit.net> wrote:
>
> Having some unit tests would help make sure SFTP doesn't rot in the
> future, which is certainly highly desirable, but full test coverage is
> not necessary (as far as my awarding the bounty is concererned,
> anyway; Zooko may have different ideas on this).

David-Sarah have been writing a lot of tests! I believe their patch
will meet our standards for tests. It appears that David-Sarah has
written unit tests for more or less all of the behavior that they are
adding or fixing.

One detail that will probably *not* be thoroughly tested in v1.7 is an
"end-to-end" or "known-answer" test which would catch, for example,
bugs or incompatibilities in the pycrypto module:

http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/953#comment:12

Bugs in the pycrypto module are not that rare, so it would be good to
get end-to-end tests, but I don't consider that a blocker for v1.7.

Regards,

Zooko