For comparison with June and to follow Roger's example, here's my May status report.
----- Forwarded message from Mike Perry mikeperry@torproject.org -----
I fixed the following bugs in May: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~MikePerry201205
Exec Summary of Trac Tickets:
I designed a volunteer TBB testing program. We're still working out the bumps, but I'm pretty confident that we'll be able to keep the overhead at the level of "one email + an scp" for Erinn. I fixed several very serious Tor Browser bugs, including a DNS leak, a disk leak, an evercookie leak, and I released a Torbutton 1.4.6 using an offline update signing key (no more remote code exec through arbitrary CA compromise!).
I also bumped the Torbutton useragent, clear search+find boxes on New Identity, perform the TBB versioncheck regularly in the background, updated the captcha redirect to startpage, fixed a window sizing issue, synced some important Torbutton and TBB prefs with eachother, and did some review + made some suggestions for Torbirdy.
Most notably from a support perspective, Torbutton 1.4.6 informs users about TBB, and is no longer togglable (though you can re-enable toggle if you uncheck a checkbox in the prefs).
Non-Trac Tasks:
I helped with the tor core interview process, determining stages, reviewing resumes and phone screening candidates, and helping Nick with the third round coding question. (20 points).
I reviewed a handful of trac tickets and did some triage. (3 points).
I made a first pass at a patch to detect path bias (2 points).
I reviewed another silly website fingerprinting attack paper. (2 points).
I spent a fair amount of time on email. It seems like it comes down to about 6 points per week on average, with the exception of this last week, where I spent an additional 16 points arguing about volunteer processes and the benefits of involving the community in our work. (6*4 + 16 = 40 points).
Time keeping notes:
I did 40 points of trac-recorded development activity this month. I did 67 points of non-trac work this month.
That's a total of 107 points, which is roughly 214 hours, give or take about 20 hours for rounding error. I really failed at timeboxing work in the last week, which is I think why this number is so high compared to last month.
Trac workload stats:
I closed 14 tickets of major priority or above, yet there are still currently 50 tickets of major priority or above opened against me. This is one less than the number of tickets last month! I'm still making steady progress at a rate of 1 major+ ticket per month (same rate as last month)! I'll be done with them all in just a scant 50 more months! :)
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as... https://bit.ly/KZcmA9
Next Month: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?keywords=~MikePerry201206
Exec Summary:
Fix TBB fingerprinting and linkability issues, updating the TBB design doc, rebase Tor Browser to Firefox 10.x ESR, publish the relay best practices doc + scripts, write a build security proposal outline, work on the path bias issue. Probably also help smooth out tor-qa process a bit more.