Hi everyone,
this is the first status report on the Tails Server GSoC project. I officially began working on it on April 25th, although I already did some work in the weeks before.
This is what I have done so far:
* Updating the blueprint of the Tails Server [1]
* Implementing two iterations of prototypes of the GUI. The most recent one is available on gitlab [2].
* Discussing the design of the GUI on the Tails-UX mailing list [3][4]
* I began implementing the CLI, the current code (not ready for review yet) is also available on gitlab [2]
Next I plan to continue the design of the GUI, after others commented on the new prototype. There are still some features missing which I will implement in time. In parallel I will continue implementing the CLI and discussing the design decisions.
I did quite a lot during the last two weeks and I will have some other work to do in the next two weeks, so I expect to get less work done until the next report.
Cheers!
[1] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/tails_server/ [2] https://gitlab.com/segfault_/tails_server [3] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2016-April/thread.html#919 [4] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2016-May/thread.html#953
segfault:
this is the first status report on the Tails Server GSoC project. I officially began working on it on April 25th, although I already did some work in the weeks before.
This is what I have done so far:
Updating the blueprint of the Tails Server [1]
Implementing two iterations of prototypes of the GUI. The most recent
one is available on gitlab [2].
The first one was a really cool step to see something tangible and comment upon, I'm excited about testing the second one now!
Discussing the design of the GUI on the Tails-UX mailing list [3][4]
I began implementing the CLI, the current code (not ready for review
yet) is also available on gitlab [2]
Next I plan to continue the design of the GUI, after others commented on the new prototype. There are still some features missing which I will implement in time. In parallel I will continue implementing the CLI and discussing the design decisions.
Maybe the call for review for the CLI should be sent to tails-dev@boum.org instead of tails-ux@boum.org :P
By the way, maybe you should send you reports to tails-dev@boum.org also. We might be very few people from tails-dev@boum.org also following tor-dev@ closely.
Also, just out of curiosity, when are you planning to work on "Design an extensible and robust format describing the services and how they integrate into Tails"?
This discussion should definitely happen on tails-dev and I expect it to take quite a while. It's good that we started with the interface as it brings up concrete user scenarios that will influence the implementation and thus the format, but maybe you won't be able to jump straight from the interface to writing the backend before the format is better defined.
I sent my first GSoC report only to tor-dev and forgot to send it to tails-dev too. I quote it in full at the end of this mail.
sajolida:
segfault:
this is the first status report on the Tails Server GSoC project. I officially began working on it on April 25th, although I already did some work in the weeks before.
This is what I have done so far:
Updating the blueprint of the Tails Server [1]
Implementing two iterations of prototypes of the GUI. The most recent
one is available on gitlab [2].
The first one was a really cool step to see something tangible and comment upon, I'm excited about testing the second one now!
Discussing the design of the GUI on the Tails-UX mailing list [3][4]
I began implementing the CLI, the current code (not ready for review
yet) is also available on gitlab [2]
Next I plan to continue the design of the GUI, after others commented on the new prototype. There are still some features missing which I will implement in time. In parallel I will continue implementing the CLI and discussing the design decisions.
Maybe the call for review for the CLI should be sent to tails-dev@boum.org instead of tails-ux@boum.org :P
I didn't send a call for review for the CLI yet. Actually I wrote that it's not ready for review yet (see the quote above).
By the way, maybe you should send you reports to tails-dev@boum.org also. We might be very few people from tails-dev@boum.org also following tor-dev@ closely.
Right. I said that I would do so previously and forgot.
Also, just out of curiosity, when are you planning to work on "Design an extensible and robust format describing the services and how they integrate into Tails"?
I think this discussion has already started with anonym's mail [1]. I discussed this further with him in XMPP because I had a different design in mind but I think his is better, so I didn't write a mail about this after the chat. I already started implementing and extending the design (I think most shortcomings only become obvious during implementation). Maybe I should send another mail about this.
[1] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2016-March/010506.html
This discussion should definitely happen on tails-dev and I expect it to take quite a while. It's good that we started with the interface as it brings up concrete user scenarios that will influence the implementation and thus the format, but maybe you won't be able to jump straight from the interface to writing the backend before the format is better defined. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
From: segfault segfault@riseup.net To: tor-dev@lists.torproject.org Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 18:04:58 +0000
Hi everyone,
this is the first status report on the Tails Server GSoC project. I officially began working on it on April 25th, although I already did some work in the weeks before.
This is what I have done so far:
Updating the blueprint of the Tails Server [1]
Implementing two iterations of prototypes of the GUI. The most recent
one is available on gitlab [2].
Discussing the design of the GUI on the Tails-UX mailing list [3][4]
I began implementing the CLI, the current code (not ready for review
yet) is also available on gitlab [2]
Next I plan to continue the design of the GUI, after others commented on the new prototype. There are still some features missing which I will implement in time. In parallel I will continue implementing the CLI and discussing the design decisions.
I did quite a lot during the last two weeks and I will have some other work to do in the next two weeks, so I expect to get less work done until the next report.
Cheers!
[1] https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/tails_server/ [2] https://gitlab.com/segfault_/tails_server [3] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2016-April/thread.html#919 [4] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-ux/2016-May/thread.html#953
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