Earlier this year a number of Tahoe-LAFS community members began an effort to port Tahoe-LAFS from Python 2 to Python 3. Around five people are currently involved in a part-time capacity. We wish to accelerate the effort to ensure a Python 3-compatible release of Tahoe-LAFS can be made before the end of upstream support for CPython 2.x.
Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open system for private, secure, decentralized storage. It encrypts and distributes your data across multiple servers. If some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire file store continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.
Foolscap, a dependency of Tahoe-LAFS, is also being ported. Foolscap is an object-capability-based RPC protocol with flexible serialization.
Some details of the porting effort are available in a milestone on the Tahoe-LAFS trac instance.
For this help, we are hoping to find a person/people with significant prior Python 3 porting experience and, preferably, some familiarity with Twisted, though in general the Tahoe-LAFS project welcomes contributors of all backgrounds and skill levels.
We would prefer someone to start with us as soon as possible and no later than October 15th. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send us any questions you have, as well as details of your availability and any related work you have done previously (GitHub, LinkedIn links, etc). If you would like to find out more about this opportunity, please contact us at jessielisbetfrance at gmail (dot) com or on IRC in #tahoe-lafs on Freenode.