Put it into a language that I can more easily maintain

The issuer runs.  Helpers to poke the right API calls into the right place
forthcoming...

just need 35 more hosts and then defining the function will be a win ...

Also improve failure reporting.

It knows better than we do about its own dependencies.  Let it control them.

Also open the firewall!  Yea.  That is a pretty important thing.

This results in less repetition, less abstraction leakage, and provides more
power to the private-storage module (by exposing meaningful values instead of
Tahoe-LAFS config strings).

Also, comments.