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Metrics Team Meeting Notes, February 27th 2020
by Gaba 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi! We had our weekly metrics team meeting today and it was very short. The next one is going to be on March 5th at 1500 UTC. The pad for the meeting in 2020 is at https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-metricsteam-2020.1-keep The log is http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-27-15.01.log… The agenda and notes for today are: ------------------------------------- Agenda Thursday, February 27th, 15 UTC ------------------------------------- * Changes to DNSBL service: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-February/018189.html * What is the status on exit scanner? * we have deployed a new machine, check-01.torproject.org and this is currently running the new exit scanner software cheers, gaba -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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S27 (Onion Services) Meeting today: Tuesday 25th February @ 15UTC
by Pili Guerra 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi everyone, Here’s your usual reminder about this meeting. Looking forward to discussing progress! Thanks, Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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Network health meeting notes, 24 Feb 2020
by Georg Koppen 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Hi! Yesterday, we held another weekly meeting to discuss network health issues and keep us in sync. The IRC log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-24-19.00.txt Additionally, here come the status updates and discussion items showing what we were up in the previous week and what is planned for the coming one: Discussion: * Guidelines on ethical operating a relay with operators [deferred to next week, GeKo] * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-February/018154.html * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2020-January/018040.html * How do we proceed with the bridges part of #32672? [after dealing with the relay part, let's look at the data and then based on that move forward, probably with contacting operators, too, GeKo] GeKo: Last week: - finished a good deal of the simplification of the bad relay rejecting process (#33182) - looked over the DRL and sbws proposal - worked on #32672 (rejecting 0.2.9.x and 0.4.0.x) - looked over ggus's questionaire for relay operators - small review for #33361 - sbws prep This week: - getting up-to-speed for sbws review/work - making scripts for better bad relay rejecting available to others - more work on #32672 - feedback reviews Gaba Last week: - DRL propoposal on scalability (we got the SOI accepted and working on proposal) - tor-relays mailing list moderation dgoulet Last week: - Confirmed things on #32672 - Opened and patch for #33361 Georg

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Network Team Meeting Notes, 19 February 2020
by Alexander Færøy 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello, Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Wednesday the 19th of February 2020. 1) We started out with roadmap. 2) Reviews seemed alright. 3) We went over our 0.4.3 status page. Nick asked the question "if we called maint-0.4.3 a release candidate tomorrow, what would we regret not fixing?" 4) We talked about what to do with circpad tickets. Mike and George will talk about what to do here. 5) We talked about using Shadow for some hard to reproduce issues. 6) Nobody had anything else to discuss. --- end of summary --- You can read the network team meeting log at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-19-22.59.log… Below are the contents of our meeting pad: Nick: Week of 10 Feb (planned): - Work on paper with Ian and Chelsea (revisions due 15 Feb) - Finish review on PETS artifact (due 15 Feb) - Review Teor's proposal 313 - Revise: - TROVE-2020-002 - 33104 -- SIGNAL ACTIVE patch - 32921 -- C style branch - Other patches on 0.4.3 - Release 0.4.3.2-alpha - Continue bug retrospective. Finish? - Open merge window for 0.4.4 - Resolve more 043-must/should tickets - Integrate revisions to prop295 before I forget completely Week of 10 Feb (actual): - Finish paper with Ian and Chelsea. (Tech report is now out) - Review pending proposals and patches. - Numerous meetings - Revise patches for merge in 0.4.3 - Continue revising C style branch patch - Released 0.4.3.2-alpha - Opened merge window for 0.4.4 - Worked on 0.4.3.x tickets - Worked on bug retrospective - Worked on git tooling a little Week of 17 Feb (planned): - Lots of code review - Continue bug retrospective? - Work on relay/dirauth modularization stuff - Any C style work to do? Pending for later: - Try to do a personal roadmap for next 3-4 months - Write policy notes catalyst: week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (planned): - reviews - more research and commenting on #32921 - follow up on .github repo stuff (#32335) week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (actual): - researched innards of emacs C mode somewhat (especially regarding escaped newline alignment) - split some stuff out of #32193 (multiple gitlab CI improvements) - looked a little bit into #32622 (misleading bootstrap message for certain TLS handshake failures) -- probably not actually easy - good meeting about C style stuff and better scoping #32921 - more gsod stuff (#33188) - initial manpage sorting checker script (#33339) week of 02/17 (2020-W08) (planned): - TPI holiday 02/17 - reviews - more gsod stuff as needed - writing feedback - create follow up ticket(s) for stuff out of scope for #32921 - dig a bit more into #32622 week of 02/17 (2020-W08) (actual): - TPI holiday 02/17 - more gsod review (#33275) ahf: Week of 10/2 2020 (planned) - Get over a flu. Going in the right direction. - Review a lot of sbws tickets. - Finish TROVE issue. - Work on wiki migration on GL. Help hiro with migration if she needs that. - Write email about a discussion I had with Peter Stuge and Linus at FOSDEM. Week of 10/2 2020 (actually) - Backlog of different things from the week before: email/irc. - A few reviews. - Work on TROVE issue. - Wrapping my head around sbws/shadow. - Hacked on wiki migration for GL. Week of 17/2 2020 (planned) - Write email about a discussion I had with Peter Stuge and Linus at FOSDEM. - Hack on 0.4.3 tickets. - If the new GL instance comes up before Friday, try to do a run of ticket migrations to it to see if things are better. Write email to tor-project@ with an update. - Look into crash issue in #32729 asn: Week of 10/02 (planned): - Finalize handling of TROVE-2020-003 - Get back to onionbalance v3. - Get #32709 merged - Finish reviews Week of 10/02 (actual): - Finalized TROVE-2020-003 - Finalized #32709 Week of 17/02 (planned): - Get back to OBv3. - Get #32709 merged. dgoulet: Week of Feb 3rd (actual): - Reviews and merges - HS client auth issues. Worked on fixes: #33139, #33148 - Worked on #28992 HS ticket. - More work on #33072 and #33029. Launched a discussion on the dirauth list to decide for backport on those. - Sponsor27 meeting. Wrote a summary of the new SOCKS5 extended error in #33035. - Some work on the network health side to help GeKo transition. - Went over the TROVE and responded on network team security list. - HackerOne report. Week of Feb 10th (planned): - Backport work for #33072 and #33029. - Update #32910 with latest discussion with nickm about the tracing API and code structure. - Will start doing some slides for NetDev 0x14. Diagrams of some tor low level internal codes are needed so I need to start early. Gaba: Last week (actual): - reduce scalabiltiy project to fit new requirements - sbws grant proposal - run behind trac again Week of February 19th (planned) - scalabiltiy project risks - sbws grant proposal - run behind trac teor: (online first meeting of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 10 February (planned): Important: - Write Draft of Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (#33159) - Revise Proposal 313 based on reviews - respond to emails and IRC Roadmap: - open Sponsor 55 tickets for required work - based on proposals - with updated estimates - make existing tickets children of Sponsor 55 parent tickets Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors Week of 10 February (actual): Important: - Write Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (#33159) - Revise Proposal 313 based on reviews - Merge Proposal 313 - Create Sponsor 55 tickets, doing estimates, and writing a rough implementation order - respond to emails Roadmap: - made some existing tickets children of Sponsor 55 parent tickets - found a relay bandwidth stats bug that affects our bandwidth and connection stats (#33201), so I guess it's Sponsor 55. - Turns out it's not a bug, it's a misleading comment. - test IPv6 in CI (#33195 and children) - fix protocol version sorting issue (#33285) - help tom with info about IPv6 relays for consensus health (#33266) - Start designing chutney reachability tests (#33232) Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews, merges - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors - Help with manual page rewrite (#33188) - Help with git scripts (#32121, #33284) - Help with 0.4.3 logging fix (#33087) Week of 17 February (planned): Important: Roadmap: - chutney relay IP4 reachability self-tests (#33232) - Add an ipv6 mixed network to chutney and tor - #32588 Setting ORPort [ipv6]:auto mistakenly advertises port 94 - Maybe #33220 Prop 311: 3. Allow Relay IPv6 Extends Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews and ticket help - Back to normal code reviews (thanks everyone for letting me focus on Sponsor 55 proposals!) - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors Week of 17 February (actual): Important: - tor-relays moderation - list moderation was taking a lot of time, and I need to focus on Sponsor 55, so I'm stepping away from list moderation for a while Roadmap: - Make consensus voting more resistant to late votes (#4631) - chutney relay IP4 reachability self-tests (#33232) - Add an ipv6 mixed network to chutney and tor (#33334) - Update the default chutney networks for new tor features (#33376) - Use chutney's diagnostics in Tor's CI (#33353, #32792) - Require all nodes to bootstrap (#33378) - Working on: Require all relays in the consensus - Next up is: Remove AssumeReachable 1 from relays - chutney and tor changes to improve chutney tests Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews and ticket help - Back to normal code reviews (thanks everyone for letting me focus on Sponsor 55 proposals!) - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors - Some quick bug fixes Mike: week of 10 Feb (actual): - Still figuring out Reasearch Janitor role priorities - Performance funding proposal work week of 19 Feb (planned): - Investigate/reproduce circpad shutdown bugs (#30992 and chutney warns); plan some fixes - Mull over Research Janitor responsibilities and priorites - Maybe review metrics-team tickets jnewsome: week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (planned): week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (actual): - Onboarding logistics - Fleshed out Shadow sponsor page a bit https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor38 - Fixed some Shadow compiler warnings and bugs (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/711 and related issues) week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (planned): - Enable -Werror in Shadow, suppressing existing warnings if necessary (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/711) - Add clang compile to CI - Fix remaining tests that listen on hard-coded ports (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/718) - Start planning Shadow TCP redesign week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (actual): - Fixed some additional warnings in Shadow, but haven't enabled -Werror yet. Now planning to only enable it in CI - Investigated possibility of running Shadow CI inside Docker containers. Ran into issues with elfloader. Deferring for now since elfloader is planned to go away. - Created Github CI action for shadow-plugin-tor (shadow-plugin-tor@head against with fixed versions of shadow and tgen) week of 02/17 (2020-W08) (planned): - Extract shadow-plugin-tor CI core logic into a shell script - Set up shadow repository to also run the shadow-plugin-tor CI (shadow@head against fixed versions of shadow-plugin-tor and tgen) - Suppress remaining compiler warnings in Shadow and enable -Werror in CI - Start looking at TCP module and planning refactor/redesign -- Alexander Færøy

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Notes from Vegas Meeting FEBRUARY 20 2020
by Erin Wyatt 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Vegas Team Meeting Notes FEBRUARY 20 2020: + NEW BUSINESS ewyatt: - We have a ton of the old "This is what a Tor supporter looks like" shirts and a ton of OONI shirts, and not a lot of space to store them. What should we do with them? * Can we give them away at the networking event in SF and NY? Yes in SF, no in NY. * We need to figure out how to build a stock in Europe for events there so we can sell there too. gus: - Totem project invited Tor Project to build some online courses for their platform. * Gus will follow up with them to see how we can collaborate. + GENERAL NOTES ewyatt: 1. We have a ton of the old "This is what a Tor supporter looks like" and OONI shirts at the office, and not a lot of space to store them. What should we do with them? 2. Working on employee contracts updates. 3. Administrative Assistant job posting to be posted soon. 4. Emailed EFF for help on the IP section of the employee handbook. 5. We owe people PTO balance updates - will try to get those out next week, so please make sure your timesheets in Harvest are complete and up to date sarah: 1. Meeting in person with Joe Hall from ISOC today. 2. Met with Xavier from Open Collective Foundation. 3. Working on next fiscal year's budget projections. 4. Events in San Francisco and NYC moving along. 5. Updating donation acceptance policy for next week's meeting. Steph: 1. Working with annalee_ on a vpn post 2. Updating our fundraising deck for upcoming meetings: updating old pages, adding 2 new 3. Chasing down some corrections in a story 4. Blog posts: IFF CFP, solving network security goals 5. Announced Walking Onions grant from ZCash 6. Participating in a livestream with Electric Coin next week 7. Other editing: job post, visa letter Philipp (on vacation) 1. Finally wrapped up Python 3 port of BridgeDB, which took a lot of time 2. Sponsor 30 business as usual Pili 1. Mostly working on the DRL proposal 2. Organising blog "reboot" 3. Tor Browser release planning 4. General trac gardening and other maintenance tasks 5. We didn't get accepted for GSoC again :( Nick: 1. Walking onions tech report (joint work with Ian & Chelsea) is out. This is similar to our paper (under submission). 2. Trying to make sure that we've got development priorities straight for April+. Mike: 1. Worked on role description mail 2. Working on circpad network-team bugs 3. Available to help with DRL, nlnet, etc proposals. Just ping me with questions Georg: 1. Digging out of backlog after being afk a bit 2. network health work Antonela: 1. Back from afk time = inbox love 2. Wrapping S27 work: closing my bits on remaining tickets, testing builds, following up the conversation with the Learning Lab. 3. The DV ballot passed. I'm talking with Soraya at EFF to learn how let's encrypt updates reach certbot releases. 4. Following up with Tunde (ICFP). He is traveling running interviews this week. 5. A new iteration of torproject.org/download is live > https://www.torproject.org/download/ 6. Met Internews to learn about their USABLE program and plans for this year. Alex: 1. Team seems to be doing well. 2. Started having 1:1's again after missing them after FOSDEM and me being sick last week. 3. Status update with Gaba and Nick. 4. Trying to wrap my head around both Shadow and SBWS still. 5. Working on 0.4.3 tickets. Gaba: 1. DRL Scalability proposal writing 2. SF networking event invites 3. Sponsor follow up 4. Running behind Trac 5. Sync on capacity and priorities with Alex and Nick. 6. Getting my turn into trying to kill SVN 7. Sound track for this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwuQamWm6ME anarcat: 1. new server setup (fsn-node-04) in progress 2. improved on server bootstrapping process (cut down number of steps in half!) 3. audited nagios puppet module to work towards puppetization (#32901)1 4. SVN next steps discussion 5. random routine stuff: package installs (#33295), DNS updates (#33308), RT root noises (#33314), gitlab puppet work patch review Karsten: 1. Released Onionoo 7.0-1.24.0, 7.1-1.24.1, and 8.0-1.25.0. Matt: 1. Maybe releasing another Tor Browser Alpha update next week with more S27 (onion service usability) features 2. Sketching Tor Browser roadmap for next ~4 months (will probably organize a meeting in the near future) 3. Learning much about our signing infrastructure and thinking about how we can improve it (and our signing process overall) isabela: 1. back from vacation, catchin up on everything Gus: 1. Reaching out possible partners for DRL proposal. 2. Spreading the news about Tor Village in IFF and also answering people who contacted us. Blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-village-iff-2020-call-proposals 3. Network health: Reviewing EFF Legal FAQ. 4. Network health: organizing workflow to contact relay operators running old tor versions (0.2.9.x and 0.4.0). Contacted relay operators from mexico, costa rica, brazil, chile. 5. Reviewing Cleo's work in RT and documentation PRs. 6. Did a Tor workshop last saturday with a community network in Sao Paulo state. 7. Offline next monday and tuesday (local holiday)

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes 20 February 2020
by Cecylia Bocovich 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor meeting.2020-02-20-18.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday February 20th 18:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress). == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == Our anti-censorship roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. For 2020 Q1, the trac keyword is anti-censorship-roadmap-2020Q1 The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam Past meeting's notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project… Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… Projects from sponsors we are working on: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 ------------------------- --- February 20th 2020 -- ------------------------- == Announcements == == Discussion == == Actions == == Interesting links == https://github.com/edwardz246003/shadowsocks Redirect attack on Shadowsocks stream ciphers tldr: Shadowsocks stream ciphers do not even provide confidentiality (AEAD ciphers are ok) == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with. Hiro: (last updated before 2020-01-09) Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation phw: This week (2020-02-20): Will be gone until our Mar 12 meeting. Merged and deployed BridgeDB's Python 3 port (#30946). Retired scramblesuit, obfs3, and fte from BridgeDB. Refactored email distributor check tool for #12802. Wrote OONI patches for new default bridge. Reviewed #23225. Next week: Write a summary of our current BridgeDB distribution mechanisms and brainstorm new ones Help with: Gaba: () Last week (): This week (planned): cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-02-20 Last week: - afk monday for public holiday - reviewed #33299 - looked at webext issues and reviewed #33367 - grant writing - finished up adding db tests for gettor (and fixed some db issues) #33191 - dogfood turbotunnel + snowflake - revised work to ignore quoted text in gettor emails (#23225) - worked to investigate proxy-go CPU usage (#33211) - revised ignoring quoted help text in GetTor emails (#33343) This week: - UI mock up for snowflake throughput check (#32938) - more work on proxy-go CPU usage (#33211) - Investigate passing STUN information from Broker to client (#25591) - Do more profiling for Snowflake (memory, goroutines, and CPU) - Aggregate and write up a report of snowflake throughput changes - write up snowflake scaling thoughts for mailing list - send grant to some external reviewers - pick up another gettor ticket Needs help with: - review of #33343, #33191, #23225 arlolra: 2020-02-13 Last week: - merged the client part of #19026 Next week: - maybe the proxy parts of #19026 - pick another task? Help with: - dcf: 2020-02-20 Last week: - helped debug a snowflake server memory leak (#33367) - made a patch to ignore client IP addresses of 0.0.0.0 for stats purposes (#33385) - deployed a snowflake turbotunnel bridge and Tor Browser packages that use it (#33336) - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2020-February/0… Next week: - announce snowflake-turbotunnel bundles for somewhat wider testing - DNS-over-HTTPS prototyping Help with: cjb: 2019-02-20 Last week: - got feedback on #31011! Next week: - answering feedback, started poking at golang snowflake proxy Android app Help with: - agix:2020-02-20 Last week: - Submitted fix for #31967 - Worked on #31876 Next week: - Submit first draft of #31876 Help with: -

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Metrics Team Meeting Notes, February 20th 2020
by Gaba 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Hi! We had our weekly metrics team meeting today. The next one is going to be on February 27th at 1500 UTC. The pad for the meeting in 2020 is at https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-metricsteam-2020.1-keep The agenda and notes for today are here: ------------------------------------- Agenda Thursday, February 20th, 15 UTC ------------------------------------- Review tasks from roadmap session (ticket creation, old cards in trello) Gaba set keyword #metrics-team-roadmap-2020Q1 for all tickets in the roadmap Gaba updates trello kanban board with roadmap Gaba will update https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor59 once we have all the tickets created Issues marked as NEED_TICKET in https://pad.riseup.net/p/0K2Q5uuN0CbjbOGxJQsL-keep Migrating from GitLab to Trac (metrics-cloud, onionperf) GeoIP database (karsten) karsten writes down two possible workaround, to discuss internally/with a lawyer/with data providers. Onionoo 8.0 upgrade (karsten) currently running. Simplifying (but also breaking) TorDNSEL (irl) irl asks on tor-relays@. Onionoo new hosts (irl) we're scheduling this for March 4 or 5, or earlier as to be discussed next week. (Quick) Questions on Metrics DB / Metrics Website Refresh (dj) Releases last week: #33337: Release Onionoo 7.0-1.24.0 #33338: Release Onionoo 7.1-1.24.1 #33355: Release Onionoo 8.0-1.25.0 Meeting's logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-20-15.01.log… -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Network Team Meeting Notes, 10 February 2020
by Alexander Færøy 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Hello, Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Monday the 10th of February 2020. 1) We started out with roadmap. People are doing 0.4.3 tickets and TROVE's. 2) Reviews seemed alright. 3) We went over our 0.4.3 status page. 4) Short discussion on reviewer assignments. 5) Nick asked if we had any blockers for a 0.4.3.2-alpha release. Nobody had any. 6) Nobody had anything else to discuss. --- end of summary --- You can read the network team meeting log at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-10-17.59.html Below are the contents of our meeting pad: Nick: Week of 2 Feb (planned): - Finish bug retrospective. - Solve as many 043-must/should issues as I can. - Review and merge. - Keep an eye on blog comments about recent stable releases. - Plan for an alpha early next week. - More work on paper with Ian and Chelsea (revisions due 15 Feb) - Review Teor's proposal 313 once it's out - Integrate revisions to prop295 before I forget completely Week of 2 Feb (actual): - Continue bug retrospective - Worked on paper with Ian and Chelsea - Revised C style branch (32921) - Worked on several 0.4.3.x tickets - Discussed and worked on several TROVE issues. - Spent Friday sick :/ Week of 10 Feb (planned): - Work on paper with Ian and Chelsea (revisions due 15 Feb) - Finish review on PETS artifact (due 15 Feb) - Review Teor's proposal 313 - Revise: - TROVE-2020-002 - 33104 -- SIGNAL ACTIVE patch - 32921 -- C style branch - Other patches on 0.4.3 - Release 0.4.3.2-alpha - Continue bug retrospective. Finish? - Open merge window for 0.4.4 - Resolve more 043-must/should tickets - Integrate revisions to prop295 before I forget completely Pending for later: - Try to do a personal roadmap for next 3-4 months catalyst: week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (planned): - reviews - getting feedback on .github repo stuff (#32335) - feedback cycle stuff week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (actual): - more review of gsod work (#32928, #32929), with nickm's help - research on "minimum viable clang-format version" for #32921 week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (planned): - reviews - more research and commenting on #32921 - follow up on .github repo stuff (#32335) ahf: Week of 3/2 2020 (planned): - Work on one of the TROVE's. - Tried to wrap my head around the HS randevouz blog post. - EOM tasks from January. - Some follow ups related to peer review and FOSDEM. Week of 3/2 2020 (actually): - Did EOM tasks for January. - A lot of follow ups from meetings. - Wrapped my head more around sbws. - Started working on my TROVE issue. - Made a notebook on "churn rate" after Roger talked about on IRC: https://github.com/ahf/onion-notebooks/blob/master/relay_churn_rate.ipynb - some of this surprised me. Week of 10/2 2020 (planned) - Get over a flu. Going in the right direction. - Review a lot of sbws tickets. - Finish TROVE issue. - Work on wiki migration on GL. Help hiro with migration if she needs that. - Write email about a discussion I had with Peter Stuge and Linus at FOSDEM. asn: Week of 03/01 (actual): - Asked people to pre-alpha test OBv3: https://github.com/asn-d6/onionbalance/blob/master/docs/alpha-testing-v3.txt - Handled various security threads and also started handling TROVE-2020-003 - Recovered from FOSDEM and handled all the backlog Week of 10/01 (planned): - Finalize handling of TROVE-2020-003 - Get back to onionbalance v3. - Get #32709 merged - Finish reviews Mike (reporting on tor-project@lists unless active on tor.git): Last week (planned): Last week (actual): This week (planned): - Funding proposals - May work on vanguards+onionbalance integration tests dgoulet: Week of Feb 3rd (actual): - Reviews and merges - HS client auth issues. Worked on fixes: #33139, #33148 - Worked on #28992 HS ticket. - More work on #33072 and #33029. Launched a discussion on the dirauth list to decide for backport on those. - Sponsor27 meeting. Wrote a summary of the new SOCKS5 extended error in #33035. - Some work on the network health side to help GeKo transition. - Went over the TROVE and responded on network team security list. - HackerOne report. Week of Feb 10th (planned): - Backport work for #33072 and #33029. - Update #32910 with latest discussion with nickm about the tracing API and code structure. - Will start doing some slides for NetDev 0x14. Diagrams of some tor low level internal codes are needed so I need to start early. Gaba: Week of February 6th (actual) - 255 - run behind Trac - sbws roadmap Week of February 10th (planned) - s55 - reduce scalabiltiy project to fit new requirements - sbws proposal - survive a pile of mails - run behind trac again - read some Tor documents teor: (online first meeting of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 3 February (planned): Take Time for: - Revise Proposal 311: Relay IPv6 Reachability (#24404) - Revise Proposal 312: Automatic Relay IPv6 Addresses (#33073) - Draft Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (ticket?) - sbws roadmap review - sbws funding proposal review - Merge proposals 311 and 312, and send out final drafts to tor-dev Roadmap: - Make tickets for roadmap, based on proposals 311 and 312 Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews Week of 3 February (actual): Take Time for: - Revise Proposal 311: Relay IPv6 Reachability (#24404) - Revise Proposal 312: Automatic Relay IPv6 Addresses (#33073) - Merge proposals 311 and 312 - Start Drafting Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (#33159) - sbws roadmap review - responding to emails and IRC Roadmap: - responding to questions on sponsor 55 tickets - update other tickets based on Sponsor 55 analysis and proposals Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews - Opened #33156 for a DoS subsystem IPv6 bug - GSoC potential IPv6 project: update project info based on latest proposals - Security issue analysis - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors Week of 10 February (planned): Take Time for: - Write Draft of Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (#33159) - Revise Proposal 313 based on reviews - responding to emails and IRC Roadmap: - open Sponsor 55 tickets for required work - based on proposals - with updated estimates - make existing tickets children of Sponsor 55 parent tickets Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors Week of 10 February (actual): Take Time for: - Write Draft of Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics (#33159) - Revise Proposal 313 based on reviews - Proposal 313 based on reviews - responding to emails Roadmap: - started opening Sponsor 55 tickets for required work - based on proposals - with updated estimates - made some existing tickets children of Sponsor 55 parent tickets - found a relay bandwidth stats bug that probably affects IPv6 stats (#33201) Other: - Ticket triage, backport deciding, quick code reviews - Python 3 reviews / helping new contributors Need help with: - Please review Proposal 313: Relay IPv6 Statistics: (for Sponsor 55) https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-February/014158.html jnewsome: week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (planned): week of 02/03 (2020-W06) (actual): - Onboarding logistics - Fleshed out Shadow sponsor page a bit https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor38 - Fixed some Shadow compiler warnings and bugs (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/711 and related issues) week of 02/10 (2020-W07) (planned): - Enable -Werror in Shadow, suppressing existing warnings if necessary (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/711) - Add clang compile to CI - Fix remaining tests that listen on hard-coded ports (https://github.com/shadow/shadow/issues/718) - Start planning Shadow TCP redesign -- Alexander Færøy

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Tor Browser Release meeting this week: Wednesday 19th February @ 19UTC
by Pili Guerra 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hi everyone, It’s Tor Browser Release meeting week once again! Let’s discuss our alpha release cycles and whether we have any candidate features for release next week. Thanks, Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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Network health meeting notes, 17 Feb 2020
by Georg Koppen 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Hello! Yesterday, we held weekly meeting related to network health. For those of you who missed it (or just wanted to recap the meeting), the IRC log can be found on: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-02-17-18.59.log… Here comes what we were up to in the previous week(s) and what we plan to work on in the coming week: GeKo: Last week: - away from the keyboard This week: - more work on simplification of bad relay rejecting process (#33182) - digging out of backlog - getting up-to-speed for sbws code review/work ahf: Last week: - Tried to build up some intuition on relay churn rate and did: https://github.com/ahf/onion-notebooks/blob/master/relay_churn_rate.ipynb Gus: This week: - Send to GeKo legal questions to add to EFF Legal FAQ - Emailed a brazilian relay operator to update their outdated tor relay Gaba: Last and this week: - sbws proposal for funding - moderation on tor-relay operators mailing list Georg

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