Andrew Gerrand

Results 23 issues of Andrew Gerrand

A couple of people have asked, so we should document how to migrate an Upspin store from one bucket to another (or indeed one storage backend to another). This thread...

help wanted
docs

As part of migrating to Go modules I had to break the `-version` flag for both of our `upspin-ui` and `upspinserver-gcp` distributions (see upspin/gcp@2f974d3aa265c7a4d85b5df69b26d8773d2f1146). This bug tracks the fix.

On the [Signup](https://upspin.io/doc/signup.md) page, the first thing a new Upspin user sees, we provide a link to the [Overview](https://upspin.io/doc/overview.md) before diving into a discussion of the tools. The Overview document...

We need a document for potential contributors that shows how to use upbox and hack on Upspin in general. It could be a `HACKING` file in the upspin repo root,...

docs

When you put an `Access` file to a `DirServer`, the `DirServer` will fetch the block(s) for that file from the relevant `StoreServer` to confirm that the file is valid before...

question

The `dir/server` implementation holds an in-memory representation of the tree structure. That tree is loaded lazily, but it is never unloaded/released. If you walk a tree then the server process...

bug

As reported in [this comment](https://github.com/upspin/upspin/issues/173#issuecomment-281882636): > You should probably have put the `backend=Disk,basePath=/opt/upspin/storage` string somewhere in the documentation. We need to document the way we configure storage backends.

docs

A frustration that I have with Upspin right now is that there's no easy way for me to send someone a link to something in Upspin space. This issue is...

feature

We shouldn't require people to use GCP to get access to the metrics tracing stuff. It would be straightforward to implement a `metrics.Saver` that logs metrics to standard error. I...

feature
help wanted

As the project matures we need to think about providing releases of Upspin. Releases can do a few things: - provide stability to users while developers hack away (branches), -...

project