THINGS I DID IN AUGUST I spent a few days vacationing with my family in Maine; took a day off for my birthday, and generally chilled out. I merged lots of bugfixes and patches -- some mine, some other people's, some requiring rewriting and review, some not. This included some security-related stuff that lost me a little sleep. It also involved hacking on some neat patches from Stewart Smith (with help from Jim Meyering) to revamp our build system. We put out a new 0.2.2. I fixed the more important (fixable) bugs in 0.2.3 (notably 6507 and 6244 and 6404), and pushed back on some others. IMO we're now ready to release the (probably) last 0.2.3.x-rc. I merged more patches into 0.2.4; see the new changes files there for more info. Lots of these were ipv6-related stuff from Linus. I started a draft for BEGIN2 cells so I can try to get a more future-proof IPv6 protocol implementation. This is blocked while I teach myself how DNSSEC works once and for all. I tried to get a little more testing on alternatives to our current (bogus, deteriorating) geoip supplier (see #6266) but didn't get anything beyond my older inconclusive results. I started working on an implementation for proposal 200, and a revised 202. With help from some libevent users, I fixed an SSL bug that might have been one of the (probably several) things making SSL bufferevents unstable. The fix appears in libevent 2.0.20-stable. I agreed to fly out to SF to accept the EFF's pioneer awards on Tor's behalf. I had an anniversary and a birthday. I proposed a crazy idea about a separate 0.2.3.x branch for DAs. I chatted a little about metaformats, and spent a while catching up on the ones I didn't know the details of. Currently I'm thinking YAML is a hot mess, and ProtocolBuffers is not too bad actually. There was this insane stegotorus bug that I sort of tracked down. That is, I can tell you which libevent commit to revert in order to make the problem go away (that is, 3467f2fa3bbff0dab6865), but I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong with it. My current guess is that it provokes an issue somewhere else. A couple of friends/acquaintances approached me about working for Tor as a project manager. I told them to email jobs@torproject.org. I don't think we've heard from them yet. It would rock if we had a faster release schedule. I've been trying to find projects our size that do it right. This coming month I must help Linus get our September IPv6 deliverables deployed. I need to help Andrea get her refactored channel abstraction merged, and make sure she's got more stuff to do (and more interesting stuff to do!) as she transitions to full-time. I must get that blog post I'm cowriting with Steven finished, and our paper for November started. And I need to write some of my own code too. I also need to finalize a plan and a schedule for 0.2.4 and send them to the world. "when in danger or in doubt," -- Nick