October 2017 - tor-project - lists.torproject.org

Mozilla "All Hands" coordination
by Roger Dingledine 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi folks, Some of us have been invited to the upcoming Mozilla All-Hands meeting in Austin in December: https://wiki.mozilla.org/All_Hands/Austin Georg (gk@torproject) is coordinating our plans, to be sure to have enough of the right people there. We think it would be wise to get a good cross-section of the Tor world there -- not just a pile of browser devs. So, if you (a) got an invite, or (b) would like to go as a Tor person, please let Georg know. The deadline for answering their invites is Oct 5, so be sure to do it with enough time before that deadline. (Technically it is not an invite, but rather a nomination for an invite, and then on Oct 5 they'll do some internal process to decide actual invites.) --Roger

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September 2017 Transifex report
by Colin Childs 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Hi everyone, Below is the monthly Transifex report for September, 2017: ### Report Attached are daily, weekly and monthly translation graphs. The Y axis is "source words". 13.02K source words 3,429 collaborators 154 languages 41 Project resources 6 languages at 100% completion (across all 42 project resources): Bulgarian (bg) French (fr) Norwegian Bokmål (nb) Spanish (es) Turkish (tr) -- Colin Childs Tor Project https://www.torproject.org Twitter: @Phoul

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Grants update, Sept 2017
by Tommy Collison 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

## Grants - Awarded a $250,000 general operating support grant from MDF. \o/ - Submitted general support grant to the Rose Foundation. - Invited to submit a full proposal to OTF to make usability improvements to Tor Browser. - Invited to submit a full grant proposal to DRL to modularize the Tor network codebase. - Wrote general language about Tor, onion services, and bridges for use in grants, blog posts, fundraising campaigns, song lyrics, wedding vows, etc. etc. ## Other - Coordinated Tor’s participation in the current Outreachy internship round [1]. - Worked on copy for Tor’s end-of-year fundraising campaign, headlined Powering Digital Resistance. - Wrote about upcoming open days and the relay meetup in Montreal [2]. - Wrote about a bug bounty payout and a call to action for technical folks to help test next-gen onion services. - Wrote about new Tor KIST developments and added my own pun to the canon [4]. As a reminder, you can help me gather information on Tor projects that could benefit from grant money by filling out the grant pipeline [5]. (I’m not the person who makes decides what to fund, but it’s good to know what people are working on.) Tommy [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Outreachy [2] https://blog.torproject.org/all-are-welcome-tors-open-hack-days, https://blog.torproject.org/relay-operators-come-hang-out-montreal [3] https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell-tors-new-traffic-scheduling-featu… [4] https://blog.torproject.org/report-bugs-get-money-like-atechdad, https://blog.torproject.org/we-want-you-test-next-gen-onion-services [5] https://pipeline.torproject.net

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Network Team meeting notes, 2 Oct 2017
by Nick Mathewson 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hi, all! You can see the logs from this week's network team meeting at http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2017/tor-meeting.2017-10-02-16.59.html . Below are the notes we typed into the meeting pad. ============= Tor network team meeting pad, 2 Oct 2017 Note new meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC! (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.ht… for background.) Last week's notes: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001457.ht… Discussion topics: Things to do before Montreal: * Teams rotation for October: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRot… * RSVP for team dinner in montreal! See network-team ML for info. * Learn some Rust! https://github.com/chelseakomlo/rust_kata * Sleep; take care of yourselves; try not to show up burned-out. ;) * RUST HACKATHON STARTS 10:30am on Monday; please arrive by 10:00am! Nick: * Last week * Wrote a bunch of unit tests * Did some research on async io in Rust * Hunted a few bugs (including 8185, 23690); helped with some others * Helped some with upcoming 0.3.2.2-alpha * Reviewed and merged various tickets * Looked at test coverage diffs between 0.3.1 and 0.3.2: we have some problems. Summary: although our coverage rate is up, we have ~500 more uncovered lines than we had before. To find out where they are, have a look at https://people.torproject.org/~nickm/volatile/coverage-diff-summary . For epecific lines, see https://people.torproject.org/~nickm/volatile/coverage-diff.xz . For history: * 0.2.9: 30014 uncovered; 27157 covered: 47.50% covered * 0.3.0: 29520 uncovered; 30288 covered: 50.64% covered * 0.3.1: 30629 uncovered; 34805 covered: 53.19% covered * 0.3.2: 31138 uncovered; 38385 covered: 55.21% covered * This week * Meet with isabela for misc planning * PETS review * Encourage people to defer, fix, fix, defer, etc. * Time permitting, look forward to sponsor8 stuff. * New England Systems Verification Day (Friday) * Montreal prep TBD * Help more with 0.3.2.2-alpha stuff * Prep for 0.3.1.8 as needed? dgoulet: * Last week: - Work on prop224 tickets. We've postponed the IPv6 + Single onion service discussion until Montreal. - Spent some time debugging scheduler KIST issues which turned out to be more deeper issues within tor: #23709, #23710, #23711, #23712 - Worked on ticket from the 032 milestone including review/triage/patches. Nothing big though, most of it was hs/sched related. * This week: - Continue the 032 milestone work. Some prop224 and scheduler stuff needs to be done for the stable. - I want to prep for the IPv6 hackfest in Montreal next week with teor. Many issues in the hidden service subsystem that I want to document properly before that. - Need some prep as well for the circuit building expiring logic for hidden service for which I want/need to sit down with Mike for this in Montreal (mostly related to #3733). teor: (offline, leave this week) Last week: * finish off a bunch of experimental PrivCount features and bug fixes * review Shamir secret sharing proposal * prepare to travel to Montreal (so many bits of paper!) * I think there's some tor coding I forgot, too This week: * week off: rest, casual coding, enjoy Montreal ahf: Last week: Sponsor 4: - Fixed Zstd regression in #23551 Sponsor 8: - Roger found an issue with the HS we used to do our download test with. We fixed this using JavaScript to download the file in the browser and report back the results to the server. Release work: - Meeting with Isis and Nick about what needs to be done before the release. - Reviewed: #23691, #23690 This week: - Roll 0.3.2.2-alpha together with Isis. - Prepare for Montreal meeting. Leaving on Friday (and will by in the air almost the entire day). - Finish Rust toy project. - Update the Sponsor 8 HS to allow the testers to specify their country when doing the testing. - Go over things I haven't gotten around to in the last week: go over old bugs, end of month tasks asn Last week: - Reviewed #23662 and #23603 for prop224. Worked on #23493. - Reviewed #23100. - Worked on #23672. Now ready for merge.. - Did some more debugging on #21969 ("missing primary guard descriptors"). This bug is still alive and a more edge-casey than before so harder to debug. It occured on my service a few days ago, and left it hanging for 28 hours until I restarted it. We also received more reports of this on trac. Needs more hardcore debugging + #23671 + #23670. - Helped tommy with the upcoming blog post calling for prop224 testing. - Revamped the prop224 wiki page some more: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/NextGenOnions This week: - More prop224 testing/bugfixing/planning. - Prepare for Montreal meeting. - More reviews as needed. catalyst: last week (2017-W39): - bug triage - reviewed some patches (including #23643 -- Type-check struct members that are passed to confparse) - more #20532 investigation - Tor Launcher progress bar meeting - fixed a leak in tests (#23691) this week (2017-W40): - somewhat slowed down by respiratory virus - Montreal travel prep - patches for #20532 - more bootstrap progress reporting improvements komlo: last week: - Submitted #22840 (review for this would be great before Montreal) this week: - prep for rust hackfest pastly: last week: more kist bug wrangling with dgoulet isabela: Last week: - Worked on progress bar error msgs and synced with catalyst+mcs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jZNFYXzii7A6gCTJtvpO-PAO-WNZa2RuEEXYJwx… - Got tests for our network speed done in a some of our target countries, hope to have 100% coverage for october tests (was important to have measurements for september tho) This week: - organize prep work for team roadmap session in montreal - get devs survey done in form format and send it to developers: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/_OX6xP4qVbt5BObbZ5EhCSWOh7snk3O_5iqoaes… isis: last week: - preparation for releasing 0.3.2.2-alpha - more work on the captcha server to fix some bugs found while writing tests #15697 - started on moat backend #22871 - organising meeting sessions this week: - finish #22871 - go over komlo's rust protover patches on #22840

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Notes from September 28 2017 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Notes for September 28 2017 meeting: Karsten: 1) We accidentally left MeetBot running for a couple of days after out last team meeting in #tor-dev which led to logging the channel all the time and which prevented the network team from using MeetBot. I can't rule out that we'll make the same mistake again, nor can other teams. Should we move all public team meetings to #tor-meeting instead and use MeetBot there? I'm happy to do it, but it makes even more sense if most/all teams do it. Conclusion: yes, we're going to try it. Roger will send mail to tor-project explaining the plan. [Update 2017-09-30: Turns out we did *not* log half a week of #tor-dev; we just confused MeetBot in a way that it did not allow the network team to start a new meeting: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-dev/2017/tor-dev.2017-09-21-14.29.log.html] 2) We're currently meeting in Berlin to make a team roadmap for the next 12 months. We're probably going to publish it next week and discuss it with other teams in Montreal. Alison: 1) Montreal meeting planning continues apace. I'm still soliciting ideas for the working sessions. 2) Lots of prep for my IMLS grant. I hope to have the application for participants completed this week. 3) Outreachy applications are rolling in. 4) Helping Isa find volunteers for Sponsor8 activities. Roger: 1) Mozilla all-hands meeting, let's tell people a plan for who should be there. Plan: Roger will mail tor-project@. 2) Brad: I'm doing an NSF proposal, due Oct 10. You could influence the budget allocations. 3) Membership secretary is in place: Damian is our new membership secretary. 4) OONI and Tor bundling: their mobile version doesn't have Tor in it, because iOS. That's sad, and we should help them fix it. Plan: have a session in Montreal to nail down whatever short term fixes we can do. 5) I'm doing a poor job as execdir-to-frontdesk conduit. I wonder if we should try listing the frontdesk on the contact page, with a big warning next to it. Plan: I will work with Alison to craft an amazing sentence for the contact page, and we'll swap frontdesk in and execdir out. 6) What did we do with the FOSDEM invite answers? Plan: The comms@ team is going to discuss how we coordinate talk proposals so we can be proactive rather than just trying to respond. Also, some proposals need to draw from many parts of Tor, so we need a shift in how we as an org approach them. Georg: 1) Releases should get out pretty soon; the alpha Tor Browser contains the missing content sandboxing and the first Tor alpha in the 0.3.2 series 2) I started reviewing the Cloudflare CAPTCHA bypass extension 3) Who is doing the CCC talk coordination? <- I'll start a thread on tor-internal to get the decision process going [GeKo] Nick: 1) We're moving forward on various projects in the Network team: mostly trying to fix bugs for the 0.3.2.x release series. 2) Remember: Isis and Ahf are putting out the next 0.3.2.2-alpha release. 3) Did we wind up with a boston PT meeting plan? Steph: 1) doing pre-work for Montreal speaker training. Talking with Lyndon again today about press. 2) Outreach apps coming in. Alison, Tommy, and I participated in a twitter chat this week. 3) doing prep with GR for fundraising campaign, giving feedback on acknowledgement letters. chatting again today. 4) helping with OONI comms, following launch process. Iran report blog post coming today 6) mapping out blog content calendar with Tommy, KIST post will go out early next week (held back bc of lots of content this week). Post on onion testing coming up 7) joining publiccode.eu call that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made Free and Open Source Software Isabela: 1) working on sponsor8 indicators for Q1 2) coordinating tasks for designer proposal with TB team and UX team - writing activities and future plans summaries for tommy to use in the proposal (due oct 4th) 3) working with network and tb team on sponsor4 tor launcher new experience 4) Linda is finishing up website redesign mocks for me to get it printed for Montreal discussion session / Antonella is also helping out the team, she is creating components from bootstrap using our style guideline (colors fonts etc) - this will be super helpful for anyone that wants to build sites or pages for their projects following our guidelines 5) Hiro is one of the 'consumers' of Antonella's bootstrap resource - she is working on newsletter archive and signup/unsubscribe pages - she is also finishing up our survey tool (which we will use for a brand survey for onion browser and a needs finding survey for network team) 6) DRL responded to modularization proposal from core tor - we need to reduce budget from 900k to 700k, and apply as cost extension of current sponsor8 grant. Arturo: 1) We launched ooni-run: https://run.ooni.io yay! 2) Just published the Iran report: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/iran-internet-censorship/ 3) We have been discussing how to make the life easier for mobile developers that want to integrate Tor into their app, using MK as a test case. See: https://github.com/measurement-kit/measurement-kit/issues/86 4) Deploying OONI API and the new pipeline this week. Shari: 1) working on end-of-year fundraising 2) anything to bring up about Montreal? 3) mapping Tor - will add this to the Montreal meeting agenda under the title "Tor on a bus."

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