Author: atagar Date: 2014-02-04 16:41:30 +0000 (Tue, 04 Feb 2014) New Revision: 26584

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Dropping 'Port HTTPS Everywhere to Firefox Mobile'

Yan reports that she just did this, and will be released this week.

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2014-02-03 15:37:22 UTC (rev 26583) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2014-02-04 16:41:30 UTC (rev 26584) @@ -1102,30 +1102,6 @@ </p> </li>

- <a id="httpsEverywhereForFirefoxModile"></a> - <li> - <b>Port HTTPS Everywhere to Firefox Mobile</b> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Medium</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Peter Eckersley (pde), Micah Lee</i> - <p> -In the past a Firefox Mobile port of HTTPS Everywhere was made impractically -complicated by the Electrolysis threading architecture used in that variant of -Firefox (<a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/2471">ticket</a>). However with -the implementation of the simple NSIHTTPChannel.redirectTo() API in Firefox -20+ (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765934">ticket</a>) we are probably very -close to having a trivial port of HTTPS Everywhere to Firefox on Android. - </p> - - <p> -This would make a great GSOC project for someone who'd like to learn some -introductory skills with hacking on the internals of real web browsers! - </p> - </li> - <a id="httpsEverywhereRulesetTesting"></a> <li> <b>Incorporate Ruleset Testing into the HTTPS Everywhere release process</b>