Author: atagar Date: 2013-03-18 22:07:53 +0000 (Mon, 18 Mar 2013) New Revision: 26115

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Dropping 'Improving TorBirdy'

When I've spoken with Sukhbir he mentioned that he doesn't think there's enough torbirdy tasks remaining to fill a summer. We can add this back in if he changes his mind.

Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-17 15:17:23 UTC (rev 26114) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-18 22:07:53 UTC (rev 26115) @@ -578,11 +578,6 @@ TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird and related Mozilla mail clients. </p>

- <p> - <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#improveTorbirdy">Improving TorBirdy</a></i><br /> - </p> - <a id="project-obfsproxy"></a> <h3><a href="<page projects/obfsproxy>">Obfsproxy</a> (<a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git">C codebase</a>, <a @@ -1310,59 +1305,6 @@ </li> -->

- <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a> - <li> - <b>Improving TorBirdy</b> - <br> - Effort Level: <i>High</i> - <br> - Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i> - <p> - TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail - clients. - </p> - <p> - TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a - href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy%22%3Eour wiki</a> - and <a - href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/%22%3Emozilla%27... - addons site</a>. - </p> - - <p> - The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by: - </p> - - <ul> - <li> - Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a - href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397%22%3Esubmitted a - patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work - required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire - patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a - completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for - Thunderbird. - </li> - <li> - Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a - href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958%22%3Eticket</a>) - </li> - <li> - Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an - example see its <a - href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319%22%3Eticket</a>) - </li> - </ul> - - <p> - A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript - development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird - extension development is a plus, but not required. - </p> - </li> - <!-- <a id="user-space-transport"></a> <li>