<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi,<div><br></div><div>How are these student projects working out?</div><div>Is there anything we can do to help?</div><div><br></div><div>(There is no need to identify the students, unless they want to be named</div><div>on a public mailing list.)<br><div><div><br>On 19 Oct 2017, at 01:57, teor <<a href="mailto:teor2345@gmail.com">teor2345@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>On 14 Oct 2017, at 01:06, Santiago R.R. <<a href="mailto:santiagorr@riseup.net">santiagorr@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>El 12/10/17 a las 12:22, teor escribió:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 12 Oct 2017, at 09:15, Santiago R.R. <<a href="mailto:santiagorr@riseup.net">santiagorr@riseup.net</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>…</span><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> With my colleague JC Bach (in CC), we have proposed a last-year student</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> project to address IPv6-related issues in Tor for the upcoming semester,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> at IMT Atlantique engineering school. There will be two students working</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> on it. It is hard to say now how far we will arrive, especially because</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> this is our first approach to Tor entrails.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> …</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This is great! We would like some help with Tor's IPv6 support.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>And we are happy to help you and your students.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span>…<br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>How many students?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>There will be two.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>How much time?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>From now until mid-March. Students will have 135h in their schedules to</span><br><span>work on their projects.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>What are your goals for the project?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>For now, it's still open, but addressing IPv6 support. We should limit</span><br><span>the scope soon, according to open related tickets that could be feasible</span><br><span>to work on.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>How much do you expect to get done?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>At least, choose a couple of easy-tagged IPv6 tickets, and close them.</span><br><span>However, it's difficult to state on this right now.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>135h is enough to submit a small, one-line change to get used to the tor</div><div>patch process, and then do something more substantial with some testing.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Have the students tried small patches?</div><div>How did they go?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>(Snip)</div></blockquote><div><br></div>Here's how your students (or you) can find tickets and get help with patches:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Our bug tracker is:</blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/">https://trac.torproject.org/</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We are also in #tor-dev IRC on <a href="http://irc.oftc.net">irc.oftc.net</a>.</span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It might be worth reminding your students that replies on IRC can take hours.</div><div>Some people are disappointed when they don't get an instant reply.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Please ask questions early, and ask often!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We would love to help you help tor.</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><br></div></div><div>T</div></body></html>