[tor-project] Tor Browser team meeting notes, 11 Feb 2019
Georg Koppen
gk at torproject.org
Tue Feb 12 06:47:00 UTC 2019
Hi all!
We had another weekly Tor Browser team meeting yesterday in
#tor-meeting2. The IRC log can be found at:
And the notes from our pad are copied below for your convenience:
Monday February 11, 2019
Discusion:
- vision meeting retrospective?
https://storm.torproject.org/shared/VzVdyS_d0Qxwr0o-ewcRyYcjiviT31bO91dz_VunQmE
- Tor Browser as a full browser brainstorm
- hiring with folks from other teams involved? [GeKo: We could think
about including folks from other teams in later stages of the hiring
process]
GeKo:
Last week:
- begin of the month team admin stuff (mcs/brade: I realized we
had #27484 and #27486 as items on the roadmap. What do you think about
those two for 8.5? At least the latter seems to be low-hanging fruit at
first glance reply from mcs: More discussion is needed for #27484; maybe
the UX team can test and get some feedback. I added #27486 to our TODO list)
- reviews (#29120, #29183, #29238, #29378, #28885, #29180,
#29349, #29325, backport of #29185 and friends to maint-8.0 branch)
- wrote a patch for x86 Android support (up for review in #27210)
- wrote a patch for aarch64 support (seems to compile fine; we
have missing aarch64 support for Orbot, though, see: #28119)
- wrote a patch for Rust support for Tor in Windows nightly
builds (#25849)
- wrote patch for #29453
- worked on the NSIS reproducibility issue (#29185), but no easy
fix is in sight; need to see NSIS in action to understand what is wrong
- vision meeting prep and follow-ups
- thought a bit more about the patch for our mingw-w64-clang
toolchain, need to do at least another revision once we are in better
shape with Tor Browser 8.5 for Android
- TBA-a3 planning and work (Torbutton localization which ties
into #10760 + mobile branding #28622)
- release prep
This week:
- release prep
- TBA-a3 work
- doing the vacation thing
mcs and brade:
Last week:
- Created a patch for #29328 (account for tor 0.4.0.x's revised
bootstrap status reporting).
- Revised patch for #28885 (notify users that update is
downloading).
- Helped a little with #29347 (Rewrite meek-http-helper as a
WebExtension).
- Looked at #29045 (ask tor to leave dormant mode).
- Filed #29357 for the Network Team to work on (add an
ActiveOnStartup config option)
- Worked on #28044 (Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser).
- Received and responded to helpful feedback from intrigeri.
- Code reviews.
- Participated in Tor Browser Vision meeting.
This week/soon:
- #28044 (Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser).
- #27486 (Onboarding: "Visit an Onion" creates an "about:blank"
loading page)
- Spend more time looking at the Firefox updater security audit
report.
tjr
- Wrote the tor browser as a full browser brainstorm above
- Fixed some tough tests for letterboxing. Hope to land it in Nightly
this week. That would be really cool.
- For those curious: making a colored margin, or a striped or
otherwise non-white margin is not easy :) So it's white.
- I will go on leave around Mar 11 until possibly late May
- Talked to Jacek about accessibility
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520177 ), got a
comparison file. No further movement
- Organization for the monthly Mozilla/Tor meeting tomorrow!
- confirmed gk's mingwclang builds run fine for me
- read cypherpunks comments about the toolchain. While I agree with
most of them, they
all seem to be very non-essential changes; and I am more
enthusiastic to work on more impactful work.
- this and next few weeks: aside from letterboxing, mostly non-Tor
stuff unless someone wants/needs something in particular [GeKo: I think
it would be helpful to put the -g -gcodeview behind
--enable-debug-symbols or something. We exclude that for the toolchain
already][tjr: The correct incantation to avoid the debug flags should be
--disable-debug --enable-debug-symbols=""]
pospeselr:
Last week:
- #26568 (security settings) UI work, plumbed through torbutton
settings to new about:preferences and partially in the door-hanger
- alpha release build
This week:
- finish functionality/plumbing work for #25658, pipe in torbutton
strings
- macOS build for antonela and pili's india trip (by Wednesday)
- uplift #29120
sisbell:
Last week:
- Added patches for tor-android-service
- 29312 TBB for TOPL - working - requires some minor patches for versions
This Week:
- 29313 - TBB for tor-android-service
- TBB with Orbot UI (whatever is currently in build but this should be
compatible with new UI version)
- By end of week I expect to have full TBB generated apk ready for
testing/review
sysrqb:
Last week:
TBA Bootstrapping (#28329)
Reviewing TOPL patches
This week:
Push #28329 branch for review (today)
Squeeze in any a3 patches, if possible
TBA-a3 prep
igt0:
Last week:
- Allowed the tor circuit for TBA to use strings from
torbutton(part of the #28580)
- TBB/TBA release prep meeting
- Tried to follow the TOPL reviews/conversation
This week:
- More integration and edge case fixes for #28580
boklm:
Last week:
- made patches for:
- #29325 (Non-Android Tor Browser nightly builds are
broken when compiling obfs4)
- #29183 (We are using Linux i686 langpacks in the Linux
x86_64 builds)
- #29378 (Remove 83.212.101.3 from default bridges)
- backported #29158, #29181, #29235 patches to maint-8.0
- worked on #26323 (Build 32bit Linux bundles on 64bit systems)
This week:
- help with new releases
- try to finish patch for #26323 (Build 32bit Linux bundles
on 64bit systems)
- continue work on testsuite
- fix nightly builds emails
- some reviews
pili:
Last week:
- Tying up GSoC loose ends and submission
- Preparing for Tor Browser vision brainstorm
This week:
- Follow up from vision brainstorm
- India prep
- I'll be in India next week so I'll miss the meeting but
will be available via email and IRC - will need a custom build with
security settings:)
anto:
Last week:
- Prepared usability testing for India
This week:
- Support what is needed for TBA release
- Check TB build for user testing
- Added #27484 for ux discussion
Georg
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