tahoe-lafs/topfiles/2367.removal

The little-used "manhole" debugging feature has been removed. This allowed
you to SSH or Telnet "into" a Tahoe node, providing an interactive
Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) that executed inside the context of the running
process. The SSH authentication code used a deprecated feature of Twisted,
this code had no unit-test coverage, and I haven't personally used it in at
least 6 years (despite writing it in the first place). Time to go.
remove "manhole" (ssh-accessible REPL) This little-used debugging feature allowed you to SSH or Telnet "into" a Tahoe node, and get an interactive Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) that executed inside the context of the running process. The SSH authentication code used a deprecated feature of Twisted, this code had no unit-test coverage, and I haven't personally used it in at least 6 years (despite writing it in the first place). Time to go. Also experiment with a Twisted-style "topfiles/" directory of NEWS fragments. The idea is that we require all user-visible changes to include a file or two (named as $TICKETNUM.$TYPE), and then run a script to generate NEWS during the release process, instead of having a human scan the commit logs and summarize the changes long after they landed. Closes ticket:2367 2016-04-06 19:49:48 +00:00			`The little-used "manhole" debugging feature has been removed. This allowed`
			`you to SSH or Telnet "into" a Tahoe node, providing an interactive`
			`Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) that executed inside the context of the running`
			`process. The SSH authentication code used a deprecated feature of Twisted,`
			`this code had no unit-test coverage, and I haven't personally used it in at`
			`least 6 years (despite writing it in the first place). Time to go.`