[tor-dev] Coordination of censorship analysis tool

Abhiram Chintangal abhiram.chintangal at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 18:45:28 UTC 2014


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Deepak Kathayat <deepak.mk17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> Like Tobias, I am willing to devote my spare time to the tool and see
> through its completion and further maintenance. I am not really bounded by
> any time constraints.
> Currently I am familiarizing myself with Twisted and OONI and excited about
> kick-starting the project as soon as possible!
> Dividing the project into sub-parts seems like a nice idea. I welcome any
> suggestions on how we can go about it.
> Tobias: We could use git until we are good enough to push it on the Tor
> servers. What do you say?
> You can find me in #tor-dev as dkathayat.
>
> Cheers.
> Deepak
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Tobias Rang <tobiasrang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ons 2014-02-05 klockan 15:29 +0100 skrev Philipp Winter:
>> > Hi Deepak, Utsarga, Tobias, and Yiwen!
>> >
>> > The four of you recently expressed interest in the censorship analyser
>> > project [1].  At this point, we only have a paper which discusses what
>> > we
>> > want from the tool [2].  There is no official code repository but Tobias
>> > recently started experimenting with some modules [3].
>> >
>> > It would be great if you all could join forces and split the workload.
>> > I
>> > understand that some of you have some constraints from your respective
>> > university.  As a result, could you please reply to this email (don't
>> > forget to CC tor-dev) and sum up what you can/want to do and if you are
>> > under any constraints such as a time-limited class project?  We can then
>> > see if and how we can divide the project into several sub projects.
>> >
>> > Regarding development and coordination: This mailing list is great for
>> > high-latency, broad, conceptual, and public discussions.  For
>> > low-latency
>> > questions, the #tor-dev channel on OFTC is better.  There's also #ooni
>> > for
>> > OONI-specific questions (most of the developers are in Europe, so you
>> > might
>> > have to wait for answers).  I am not sure how familiar you are with git
>> > but
>> > it is certainly the preferred version control system in and around Tor.
>> > So
>> > this might be a good opportunity to learn how to use it :)
>> >
>> > [1]
>> > https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#censorshipAnalyzer
>> > [2] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/pdf/foci2013.pdf
>> > [3] https://tobiasrang.com/svn/analyser/
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Philipp
>>
>> Hey everyone.
>>
>> I'm doing this in my spare time; not as part of anything school-related.
>> As such, I'm not under any real time constraints.
>>
>> As for what I can/want to do, I do have some prior experience with
>> Twisted, and I've familiarized myself a bit with ooni's API. If the
>> project is to be divided into sub-projects, perhaps the logical thing
>> would be for me to continue working on implementing tests.
>>
>> When it comes to version control, I agree that Git is the best option.
>> I've been meaning to set up a Git-repo on my server and use that instead
>> of my current svn-repo, so I guess that is one option. Although It might
>> be better to host it on Tors servers.
>>
>> You can find me in #tor-dev under the nick edagar.
>>
>> Tobias
>>
>>
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Hello Guys,

Until recently, I wasn't aware of the censorship analysis project
that is being discussed here. I find it interesting and I would like
to help out with the development during my free time.


Cheers!

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Abhiram Chintangal


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