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Network health meeting notes, 3 Mar 2020
by Georg Koppen 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Hi! Yesterday, we held our first weekly sync about network health issues in March 2020. The IRC log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-03-02-19.00.log… What we were up to in the previous week and what we plan for the coming one (plus discussion items we had) can be found below: Discussion: Guidelines on ethical operating a relay with operators * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-February/018154.html * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-January/018040.html [GeKo: ggus will start contacting folks to figure out where we are here] Changes to DNSBL service: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-February/018189.html Is everybody ok with this changes? [GeKo: Looks good to me] Statuses: GeKo: Last week: - getting up-to-speed for sbws review/work - making scripts for better bad relay rejecting available to others (see: #33182) - more work on #32672 - feedback reviews This week: - more sbws work - looking at the bridges situation for #32672 - resume work on #32864 and maybe start improving Arthur's exit scanning (#33179) - feedback reviews - look at ggus' Tor legal questions pad - maybe pick up #33009 gus: Last week: - Contacted relay operators from Latin America. Some of them replied and updated their relays. - Worked on EFF Legal FAQ - this is ready - https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-legal-questions-keep This week: - Start to contact relay organizations so we can share our census form. - Send our commenets about EFF Legal FAQ to EFF. juga: Last week: - Worked on #30899 include the commit hash in the sbws version - Revised #30196 Add the tor version to the sbws bandwidth file header - Started #30726 Missing relay keys in bandwidth file spec Next week: - Continue with #30726 Missing relay keys in bandwidth file spec - Continue with Revised #30196 Add the tor version to the sbws bandwidth file header - Continue with #30735 Work out which relays are ignored by all sbws instances - Introduce sbws to gk? Georg

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Damian's Status Report - February 2020
by Damian Johnson 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Aloha all! Just posted what I was up to this last month. As always please follow my blog if curious about the happenings in Stem-land. https://blog.atagar.com/february2020/ Cheers! -Damian

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Research Janitor Cleanup Work in February, and March Plans
by Mike Perry 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Phew this month was exhausting. But not because I got a lot done. When compared to January[1], I barely kept my head above water, while a stream of low-priority interrupts tried to drown me. About a dozen times, I got a couple hours into a topic, and then was interrupted by a request for a different topic, which I then had to evaluate if it was more important than what I was currently working on. Sometimes, it was more important and so I dealt with it, but most times it was not. By the end of each context switch, I had lost track of what I was working on before, erasing most of the progress I had made. I tried to restart, and then a new interrupt came in. Rinse, repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat. Then I had to explain to folks why their pet topic was not getting attention. This was about as pleasant as you might expect, and so I decided to spend the remainder of the month to diagnose and figure out how to correct this failure mode. For this reason, I'm changing my scheduling algorithm. From now on, all requests of my time must come either through the Tor Project team leads meeting, or be added to the below pad's request section. Random interrupts will be dropped. If you are lucky, you will be referred to this mail and/or this pad, on which you can add your pet idea to the appropriate section: https://pad.riseup.net/p/research-janitor-cleanup-schedule Here's the TL;DR, lol: February plans: - More metrics + graph analysis for Rob's experiment - Iterate on sbws eval metrics + graphs w/ Karsten - Funding proposal assistance - Tor Performance Pipeline R&D migration to gitlab February accomplishments: - Assistance with funding proposals - Tor Performance Pipeline R&D migration to gitlab - Lots of conversations about everyone's most important things - Lots of time spent taking out the trash February drops: - More metrics + graph analysis for Rob's experiment ^ (thank you for your work here, Dennis!) - Iterate on sbws eval metrics + graphs w/ Karsten and Dennis - Fixing circpad bugs that impact external padding research - Various mails about circuit padding docs + research options March plans: - Re-review of my review tickets stuck in needs_revision - Help finish off funding proposals - Get more input on Tor's most important janitorial role items - Write Tor employee peer reviews - USENIX paper review - Explain this mail and why I'm ignoring ppl who didn't read it - Vanguards integration tests w/ onionbalance v3 (if ready) - More metrics + graph analysis for Rob's experiment - Iterate on sbws eval metrics + graphs w/ Karsten and Dennis - Fixing circpad bugs that impact external padding research - Various mails about circuit padding docs + research options - Maybe also work on other channelpadding and circpad bugs Potential March Drops: - Vanguards integration tests w/ onionbalance v3 (if not ready) - Various mails about other things that might actually be important - Any requests for my time that don't use the pad or vegas meetings - Random subset of February's drops? - Work on other channelpadding and circpad bugs 1. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-February/002707.html -- Mike Perry

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