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November 2018 report for the Tor Browser team
by Georg Koppen 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hi Tor people! November has passed and here comes an update on what happened in the Tor Browser world during this time. November was one of the rare months where no Tor Browser releases got out. We spent most of our time on getting the next major alpha release for Tor Browser on Android into shape. Highlights are including Orbot into Tor Browser directly[1], which makes installing a separate app unnecessary, and the full integration of the mobile build process into tor-browser-build[2], allowing us to finally tackle remaining reproducibility issues[3]. Additionally, we have worked on a bunch of UX improvements for mobile, e.g. own about:tor page[4] and .onion indicators in the URL bar, similar to those we already see on desktop platforms[5]. Apart from working on our mobile-only tasks we managed to land fixes for two long-term first-party isolation bugs: saving images etc. via the context menu is now isolated to the URL bar domain[6] as is loading PDF documents that issue range requests[7]. The full list of tickets closed by the Tor Browser team in November is accessible using the `TorBrowserTeam201811` keyword in our bug tracker.[8] For December we plan to work on further mobile improvements, including better localization support[9] and fixups to issues that come up after our alpha relases[10]. We might finally tackle transitioning Orfox users to Tor Browser for Android as well.[11] Furthermore, we hope to make significant progress in implementing our security control redesign[12] and to consolidate our testing and QA efforts[13]. All tickets on our radar for this month can be seen with the `TorBrowserTeam201812` keyword in our bug tracker.[14] Georg [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28051 [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26693 [3] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25164 [4] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27111 [5] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26690 [6] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22343 [7] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26540 [8] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=closed&keywords=~TorB… [9] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26782 [10] For an important first one, see: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28705 [11] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27399 [12] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25658 [13] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27105 [14] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig…

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Notes from December 6 2018 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Notes for December 6 2018 meeting: Mike: 1) Continued work on wtf-pad/sponsor2 Karsten: 1) Found the bug that broke our bandwidth history graphs recently. 2) Discussed various graph improvements. Gaba: 1) Helped onion services proposal 2) Sponsor 8 wrapping up for network team. Starting Q4 report with Pili. 3) Snowflake kick off and getting people from the network team into snowflake issues from roadmap. Created a roadmap specifically for snowflake moving forward. [GeKo: Can I get a link to that one?] [Gaba: Please send me a msg if you have any comments/questions on it, I can add you to the roadmap for you to edit it if needed. The idea is for Pili and me to update that roadmap with input from teams] 4) Had metrics team retrospective. Will work on reports for sponsor 13. 5) OONI reading on processes. Alison: 1) I'm at Mozilla All-Hands 2) LFI recruitment begins Monday; still working on all other recruitment things 3) Gus and I are putting together a proposal for Rightscon 4) Gus is also planning sponsor9 travel 5) We all continue to work on the community portal planning 6) emma created a new IRC channel for localization, #tor-l10n 7) Gus is organizing work for the Sao Paolo University volunteers we will get next year 8) Colin worked with a large internet company on deploying relays Sue: 1) Worked on Financials for the Board 2) Working on finishing up the audit still hopefully done by the end of year 3) Got back from Seattle on Tuesday evening 4) Invoicing Grantors for October and November Arturo: 1) Simone is in Aberdeen doing a hackathon with irl on getting pathspider tests into OONI 2) Bugfixing for OONI Probe beta 3) Moving forward with OONI Explorer 4) Dealing with the eclipsis migration from Washington DC datacenter to Miami Georg: 1) Tor Browser 8.5a5 went out, 8.0.4 got built and 8.5a6 is getting prepared (the latter two with the update donation banners), planned release is 12/11. Steph: 1) At Mozilla All Hands 2) Editing and publishing EOY blog posts 3) TBG presented their final presentation 4) Coordinating LFI press with Alison, created a package 5) Planning RightsCon proposal with Sarah Antonela: 1) Mozilla All Hands 2) Ran UX/UI Meeting with Firefox team 3) Worked with Duncan on Security Settings Onboarding 4) Hiro presented Onions in Containers at DockerCon Barcelona 5) Did OONI Explorer design review with Elio

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November 2018 in sysadmin land
by Linus Nordberg 06 Dec '18

06 Dec '18

Hi Tor, The sysadmin and services team will start sending monthly reports, starting right here. # What's been done - Moving our last three systems over to Debian Stretch; making good progress on most of them - Getting Linus up to speed; there's a fabulous amount of information to be absorbed - Hiring process moving along; we're still hiring a full time senior systems administrator - Finding a date and a place for a in-person meeting; we're meeting the days before FOSDEM [0] - Added dnsnode.net to the set of DNS servers for our zones; using widely anycasted servers for DNS should lower the distance that queries have to travel the internet - Taking part in discussions about a search function on some of our websites - Planning for how to make best use of a bunch of donated hardware - The ordinary resolving of requests, as can be followed better over at [1] [0] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019Brussels [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/report/44 # Upcoming new things - Expand the sysadmin team wiki [1] with more gory details on how things are being set up and run - Open up our puppet repository, for read access [1] https://help.torproject.org/tsa/ # Fact of the month We're currently listing 76 official torproject.org systems [2]. [2] https://db.torproject.org/machines.cgi

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Decommissioning siv.sunet.se
by Linus Nordberg 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Hi, Once upon a time, siv.sunet.se helped measuring the performance of the Tor network [0]. The hardware siv is running on was also hosting one of the bandwidth authoritites [1] for many years. Now that computer has grown old and tired so I thought I'd just take it offline and let it rest for a bit. However, judging from its web server logs, several systems on the internet are pulling bwauth files form siv. If you are running one of these systems, please let me know how badly you need to continue doing this and for how long. [0] https://metrics.torproject.org/torperf.html [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/totalcw.html

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Tor Browser meeting Dec 3, 2018
by Georg Koppen 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Hi everyone! Our weekly Tor Browser meeting just finished. The meeting log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-12-03-19.01.log… and our notes on the pad are copied below: Monday December 3, 2018 Discussion: -release prep for 12/11 mcs and brade: Last week: - Fixed #28543 (about:tor has horizontal scroll bar between widths 900px and 1000px). - Created patch for #27828 ("Check for Tor Browser update" doesn't seem to do anything). - Helped with #28640 (System addon does not override app-profile addon). - Monitored Snowflake meeting. - Attended sandboxing meeting. This week: - Help with code reviews. - Look at catalyst's bootstrap phases proposal (see #28281 comment:3). - #25694 (Improve the user experience of updating Tor Browser). igt0: Last week: - Finished #26690(padlock) - Worked on - #28580 (tor circuit for tba) This week: - Finish #28580 - Work on #27762 (Implement better fix for Torbutton signing workaround) tjr: - Organized Orlando Meetings - Busy with other things mostly - NSS fixes finally landed in esr60, so I will work on landing build jobs there GeKo: Last week: -reviews (#28540, #28640, #28051, #27977, #28466 -started work on the security settings redesign (#25658) -worked on setting MOZILLA_OFFICIAL for Windows (#28618) and on backporting SSLstatus API (#27919) -fixed alpha build issue (no non-android bundles were copied to the final directory) (#28677) -begin-of-the-month admin stuff -release prep and build This week: -reviews -release preparations (picking all the patches for stable/alpha, build the releases, sign them) -work on the security settings redesign (#25658) -begin-of-the-month team admin stuff (adapting keywords, roadmap progress, further planning) -update Tor Browser design document (#25021) boklm: Last week: - helped build/publish new alpha release - worked on fixing testsuite issues This week: - review patch for #26843 (Adding multi-locale support for Tor Browser for Android) - help building the new releases - check if binutils reproducibility issue (#26148) is still present with latest binutils master, and try to debug the issue - work on testsuite: - enable emails for testsuite results - open tickets for all failing tests - temporarily disable tests that will require more work for fixing (so we can notice new failing tests) - afk on thursday sisbell: Last week: - #27977 - Integrated Orbot into build - Updated/Tested latest patches, feedback, fixes Test Browser APK This Week: - #27609 - Consider breaking out installer into Android library [GeKo: let's write up some pros/cons and why we would need it compared to the status quo] - #28704 - Compile Tor Android dependencies for Android pili: Last week: - Sponsor 9 report This week: - Start preparing sponsor 8 Q4 report Georg

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Notes from November 29 2018 Vegas team meeting
by Karsten Loesing 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Notes for November 29 2018 meeting: Georg: 1) About to kick off a build that could be the next alpha release (we got delayed due to last minute mobile issues) 2) Read the Sponsor9 report draft and added a bunch of comments Antonela: 1) All Hands internal sync and prep. 2) UX/UI meeting scheduled at All Hands. 3) Reviewed S9 Report. 4) Met with gus and Indian folks to organize our next year travel. 5) #28628 Working with Dunqan on Security Settings Onboarding. 6) #28329 TBA + Orbot - Working on an ideal userflow and some intermediate versions for progressive implementation. 7) Did an OONI Explorer design review. Elio is working on a new iteration this week and I worked on a sitemap to organize the navigation. 8) Community.tpo kickoff 2 will happen this Friday. 9) Hiro will present onion services at dockerconeurope18 next week. 10) Added Snowflake webextension UI to the UX team roadmap for December after the kickoff meeting ran by ahf this week. 11) Jon will order stickers for the new TB icon *__* Karsten: 1) Made good progress on CollecTor requirements document and Python/Stem prototype. 2) Split up metrics-web's legacy module into more maintainable parts (#28116). 3) Released Onionoo 7.0-1.19.0 that updates to MaxMind's GeoLite2 format for the ASN database (#28254). 4) Prepared graphs for possible metrics-team blog post for the EOY campaign. 5) Discussed various graphs on Tor Metrics with teor and/or antonela. Steph: 1) EOY blog editing, social media 2) Tor News going out tomorrow 3) will be at Mozilla All-Hands next week 4) The Berkeley Group is giving us their final presentation on Monday 5) Coordinating interviews for Isa 6) Responded to a press inquiry with help from Georg and Roger 7) Finishing press package for LFI grads 8) We did not get a stand at FOSDEM. So we are looking into possibly sharing with another org. If you know an org that got in that we could ask, let me know. Nick: 1) Going to Mozilla thing next week 2) Release schedule is up in the air with Tor: depends on how bugs shake out, and on getting earlier versions into users' hands. 3) Team is focused on wrapping up sponsor8. Mike: 1) Finishing/finished up datagram paper with Nick and Chelsea. Not sure where we're posting it. 2) Otherwise working on Sponsor2 isabela: 1) Presented at GNUHealth Conference - Tor received an award for our work on privacy and security and how it helps w/ people health (having privacy to search about your health etc) and how it can improve security of healthcare systems 2) Working on Sida's reports (met with Sida today) 3) Organizing for Mozilla's All Hands next week 4) Writing blog posts for YE campaign (and emails about me starting officially as ED) 5) Will give an interview today to cyberspook (arranged by steph) 6) Trying to catch up with a lot of emails and to do list items that are delayed due to travels Sarah: 1) YE Campaign and Giving Tuesday - emails, blogs, and social media have generated over $7,000 so far 2) Will be in Berkeley Monday for The Berkeley Group's presentation on Monday 3) Will be in the Seattle office Tuesday and Wednesday of next week 4) Al working several pieces of several reports and proposals 5) Will take pictures of the traveling onion in DC and San Francisco this weekend Roger: 1) We sent our Sponsor19 report1. Early feedback is that they liked it! 2) What would we like to write about for the next Sponsor19 report? I figure the first one was for them, and the second one should be for us. Let's write about something useful to us -- what should it be? 3) I'm all set with the 2016 / 2017 financial document blog post. Let me know if anything needs fixing. 4) I will be away more than usual the next week and a half, since I need to do my Usenix Security reviews, and since I'll be at Mozlando. Arturo: 1) Working on better integration testing for ooni/orchestra 2) Working on integrating Psiphon test into Measurement Kit 3) Moving forward with OONI Explorer development and mockups 4) OONI Probe mobile 2.0.0 beta is ready for being translated on transifex: https://www.transifex.com/otf/ooniprobe/dashboard/ & https://github.com/ooni/translations/blob/master/Guidelines.md 5) Maria wrote OONI blog post for the Tor Strength in Numbers blog series 6) Anticensorship dev hire interviews Sue: 1) Working on Sida Financial Report 2) In Seattle working with Millicent 3) Working with Auditors on Audit Report 4) Closing October and November to Invoice Funders Gaba: 1) Anticensorship interviews 2) OONI following up 3) Snowflake/network team roadmap 4) Conversation with Bekeela on reports and following on tracking sponsors. 5) OTF more changes to the onion services proposal - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-mU2rcFsZZ6-vItEkp9gZDktt28PjrK6-sKRQxQ… Pili: 1) Almost finished with Sida Phase 1 report 2) Started looking at Sponsor 8 Q4/Final report 3) Visual Identity Exercise Part 2 Alison: 1) LFI cohort 1 ends this week <3. Now working on recruitment and feedback and all that. 2) Preparing to go to Mozilla All-Hands next week. Will be checking in with their community team among others. 3) Helped with SIDA report 4) Working on Tor visual identity brainstorming 5) Gus is coordinating with new S9 partners 6) updated blog comment policy (still needs work but please review) https://pad.riseup.net/p/blog-comment-policy 7) still working on LF website redesign 8) still working on community portal outreach materials

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Network team meeting notes, 26 November 2018
by Nick Mathewson 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hi! You can find our meeting logs at http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-11-26-17.59.html Below is a copy of the contents of our pad. = Network team meeting pad! = This week's team meeting is on Monday at 1800 UTC (1 hour later for daylight saving time) on #tor-meeting on OFTC. Welcome to our meeting! First meeting each month: Tuesday at 2300 UTC Other meetings each month: Mondays at 1800 UTC (1 hour later for daylight saving time) On #tor-meeting on OFTC. (This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.ht… for background.) Want to participate? Awesome! Here's what to do: 1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name. 2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put them in boldface! 3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi! After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to tor-project @ lists.torproject.org. After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week. == Previous notes == (Search the list archive for older notes.) 29 Oct: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-October/002036.html 6 Nov: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-November/002047.html 12 Nov: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-November/002054.html 19 Nov: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-November/002074.html == Stuff to do every week = * Let's check and update the roadmap. What's done, and what's coming up? url to roadmap: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Check reviewer assignments at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdr… * Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet! Are there important documents we should link to? Things we should archive? * Check rotations at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRot… * Let's look at proposed tickets! 0.3.5 (bugs only): https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… 0.4.0: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… == Reminders == * Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily. * Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week. * Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing work for the next releases * Remember to fill up actual point when you finish a task (as well as "fix" the estimate when starting the issue). * Add planned PTO to the calendar https://storm.torproject.org/shared/ISA5L5nH0Xu88iqSCx9ZjCXYSMKOBTdbUeWarbd… << Remember that priority is Sponsor 8 - roadmap is sort out by priority >> Activity O2.5 is the one we are missing and need to be done in 2 months. ------------------------------- ---- 26 November 2018 ------------------------------- == Announcements == Next week's meeting is the first meeting in December, it's on Tuesday at 2300 UTC. Please don't bulk-delete all the old entries from this pad any more. Instead, delete the "planned" and "actual" for the previous week, but leave the "planned" for this week in place. Please check the dates before deleting. Check other's people call for help in their entries. Snowflake kickoff meeting on November 27th: overview and what needs to be done. TUESDAY november 27th at 23 UTC in #tor-meeting <<-- Come to the party! == Discussion == What is our testing plan for the sponsor 8 bootstrap changes? - How many different failure conditions are things we can simulate easily? How do we test clock skew to avoid regressions? - Is "chutney + libfaketime" an option? -nickm Should we add more testing time to all our funding applications? - I feel we usually start with a lot of testing time, but we wind up starting very late. See sponsor8 for one example, sponsor19 for another. -nickm Can anyone review sbws #28588 (python code)? I was very involved in the ticket, so I would like another perspective. (I can also do a review.) - nickm will have a look, but it will be nice if others can too. * Is our process for "proposed" working? <-- we still didn't go through it yet teor says: things seem to get stuck in proposed. * sponsor 8 work O2.5 (bootstrap reporting) is most important - right now working on this: catalyst, ahf, dgoulet, teor. any of you need help with it? * Please see tickets with tag "035-rc-blocker?" -- are any of them really rc blockers? Are there any other true rc blockers? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… Reviewer role responsibilities: https://pad.riseup.net/p/q0s3rQxVzSeZ - PLEASE look at the pad for options. Discuss and vote for one. Release schedule: any changes? == Recommended links == == Updates == NOTE NEW FORMAT! Name: Week of XYZ (planned): - What you planned for last week. Week of XYZ (actual): - What you did last week. Week of ABC (planned): - What you're planning to do this week. Help with: - Something you may need help with. PLEASE DO NOT BULK-DELETE THE OLD ENTRIES! Leave the "Planned" parts! Leave the parts for last week and this week! Nick: Week of 11/19 (planned): - Send comments about prop295 draft back to Tomer et al - Write tests for family compression branch #27359 - write tests for dormant branch #28335 - Inbox zero - interviews - book travel for brussels - Vacation Wed through Fri. Week of 11/19 (actual): - Sent comments back to tomer et al wrt prop 295 (relay crypto) - Wrote tests as plan - Review, merge, etc - Implemented prop 293 (know when to publish) - Implemented prop 297 (safer protover shutdowns) - implemented prop 298 (canonical families) - Vacation Week of 11/26 (planned): - book travel for brussels - meeting wrt privcount, tuesday, I think - review & merge aggressively - help everybody with deliverables - Release 0.3.5.6-? so that it can make the mid-december TB release? - Triage rotation - Identify 035-rc-blocker issues? Notes: - I won't be here next week; I'll be en route to the mozilla meeting Want help with: Mike: Week of 11/19 (planned) - Short week. - Vacation next monday and tuesday (will miss meeting). help with: Nick/asn: Can we decide on something I must-do this week? Like update the paper and do maybe one WTF-PAD crucial item that is a blocker? That way I don't get distracted and drop something until next weds. ahf: Week of 11/19 (planned): Sponsor 8: - Work on #27100 while we move forward with reviews of #28179. - Add missing tests to #28179. - Figure out what we do with benchmarks for #28409. Sponsor 19: - A few more interviews left. - Prepare for Snowflake kick off meeting next week (the 27th!) Misc: - Test #28518 on FreeBSD. Week of 11/19 (actually): Sponsor 8: - Got #28179's test coverage up to 100% on Unix for functions. - Review process with David for #28179, first set of changes made. - Talked with Catalyst about #27100, looked at their orconn-tracker branch for #27167, trying to figure out what a good solution and emit bootstrap events somehow for the PT case. Sponsor 19: - Did two interviews last week and today. - Went over all the Snowflake tickets on trac to see what the Snowflake people have in mind. Misc: - Tested and reviewed #28518. - Talked with Juga about #21377 Week of 11/26 (hopefully) Sponsor 8: - Work with David with review on #28179, once he is happy I'd very much like Nick to also have a look at especially the Windows code. - Continue with s8-bootstrap and #27100 - Run simpleperf tests for #28409 and compare results. Sponsor 19: - Figure out next steps for candidates. - Snowflake meeting tomorrow at patch party time! Please have a look at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Snowflake before our meeting :-) Misc: - CI and coverity duty. asn: Week of 11/19 (planned): - Continue review and striking out items from the WTF-PAD TODO list. Hopefully we can have the branch in merge_ready soon. - Continue with the anti-censorship team interviews. - Do reviews. Week of 11/19 (actual): - Continue crunching through WTF-PAD (#28142): - Worked on probability distribution code and tests provided by Riastradh. This took a while to understand and go through (it's thick statistics code) but the current code seems to work and is really well tested. I fixed the code and unittests up to fit with the Tor codebase and I pushed it in a new PR. After Riastradh ACKs it, I plan to squash it for Mike and Nick: https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/543 This code can be used both for WTF-PAD and for privcount tests. - Continued doing histogram tests. - Continue doing anti-censorship interviews. - Help teor with some s8-bootstrap guard stuff (#24661) - Do reviews. Week of 11/26 (planned): - Continue going through the WTF-PAD TODO list. - Open tickets for future work on Riastradh's probability distribution code that don't need to happen right now. Help with: - All good. dgoulet: Week of 11/19 (planned): - Released torsocks 2.3.0 this morning (\o/) - Big s8 ahf's branch has arrived in my courtyard for review: #28179 - Continue work on #28335 with nickm. Week of 11/19 (actual): - One pass on #28179 and did a 0.5 pass on the fixes made by ahf. - Second round of review on #28335 and merge_ready this morning! - Review and triage tickets. Week of 11/26 (planned): - Finalizing #28179 with ahf for upstream merge. I expects the branch to be ready for nickm's considerations today or tomorrow at worst. - Work on the remaining part of #25502, a s8 master ticket. Finalizing specs within #28180 to match implementation. - Whatever comes my way for s8 at that point. gaba (offline) : Week of 11/19 (actual): - anti-censorship interviews - ooni roadmap - OOO thursday & friday off monday & tuesday (will be on tuesday for the snowflake meeting) - grant/pm coordination Week of 11/25 (planned): - anti-censorship interview - gettor meeting to check on work and move it forward between teams - snowflake meeting and start planning help with: - communicating anything about sponsor8-bootstrap help/needs and progress catalyst: week of 11/19 (2018-W47) (planned): - following up with Nick about #28226 if needed - finishing up review of #28226 (pubsub) - #27167 - reviews - travel request for Brussels week of 11/19 (2018-W47) (actual): - talked some with riastradh about bootstrap reporting as used by Brave - fix for #27405 on my WIP branch orconn-tracker (during bootstrap stop distinguishing a consensus lacking exits; it often guesses wrong anyway) - made some progress on orconn-tracker for #27167 (track first orconn during bootstrap) - #27167 work will use a simpler, more minimal version of the pubsub concept that is synchronous for now. nothing it replaces is currently async anyway - found a minor bug while working on #27167 -- submitted patch in #28524 - talked with ahf re bootstrap progress reporting and PTs - talked with nickm re some about torguts stuff about channels, circuits, connections - talked with teor re some sponsor8 bootstrap reporting stuff - 11/22 and 11/23 off as TPI holidays week of 11/26 (2018-W48) (planned): - proof of concept for orconn-tracker (#27167) - travel request for Brussels - reviews (priority on the sponsor8 ones) help with: haxxpop: help with: teor (offline): Week of 19 Nov (planned): - I am on CI rotation - Continue to work on s8 bootstrap tickets - pick guards from a reasonably live consensus (#24661) - do path selection from a reasonably l34ive consensus (#28319) - Maybe: Fix the s8 chutney consensus failure bugs - Maybe: Make the fallback script ignore addresses in the whitelist, so we can rebuild the fallback list - Defer: Any more reviews on sbws - Defer: Most other tasks Week of 19 Nov (actual): High-Priority: - Opened tickets for CI/Coverity failures: - stem Travis (2 fixed) - Appveyor OpenSSL (#28574, not fixed yet) - Coverity spurious memory leak in memoize_protover_summary() (#28592) - Coded and tested "pick guards from a reasonably live consensus" (#24661) - Worked on other s8 bootstrap bugs (#23605 and children) Medium-Priority: - sbws 1.0 code freeze triage - tickets and spec for analysing missing relays in sbws - worked with metrics to improve bandwidth authority analysis (#28137) - code reviews Time-Sensitive: - Metrics job applications - Meeting about Mozilla's privacy-preserving user stats system "Prio" - Helped with sponsor 19 analysis of Orbot Onionoo load Week of 26 Nov (planned): High-Priority: - Send tor-dev email about next week's meeting time (on Thursday, to avoid confusion) - Continue to work on s8 bootstrap tickets - accept clock skew for 24 hours in the future, as well as in the past - integration testing for clock skew? Medium-Priority: - up to 1 day of sbws reviews - Metrics job applications - Code reviews Week of 26 Nov (actual): High-Priority: - Medium-Priority: - Help with: - How do we test our sponsor 8 reasonably live consensus code? (see discussion) - Do I have enough time to write PrivCount blog post for the EoY campaign? <-- it depends on how the other work on s8 that you have on your plate is going. It seems like sponsor 8 is higher priority? <--- yes (gaba: send me a message to chat about it) juga (offline): - Week 11/19 (plan): - review more tickets about rounding - check that there are not TODOs related to the moment when we changed sbws to work as torflow - continue with "Serve bandwidth file used in the next vote" - continue with "In a private network some relays advertise zero bandwidth-observed" - Week 11/19 (actual) - review more tickets about rounding - check that there are not TODOs related to the moment when we changed sbws to scale as torflow - monitor relays that are not measured by sbws - include the consensus measured bandwidth when calculating the minimum of the descriptors' bandwith - my roadmap on tickets has changed (thanks teor for reorganizing tickets) - Week 11/26 (plan) - continue with the work to monitor relays that are not measured - continue with the work to include the consensus measured bandwidth when calculating the minimum of the descriptors' bandwith - maybe some sbws refactoring

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Tor Browser meeting, Nov 26 2018
by Georg Koppen 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Hi a1l! Yesterday we had our weekly Tor Browser meeting. The IRC log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-11-26-19.00.log… The contents of our pad are below: Monday November 26, 2018 Discussion: -Mozilla All Hands meeting sessions -releases -- Team responsibilities restructuring - things to take over from Arthur: (GeKo: we do things ad hoc with the exception of the uplift coordination) - annual rebase - maintaining circuit display UI - optimistic SOCKS (if I don't finish it) - adding locales - Mozilla uplift coordination (GeKo: pospeselr is picking this up and we get a proper process sorted out) - There is a snowflake meeting this week - November 27th 11pm UTC at #tor-meeting - There's also a gettor meeting - Thursday 29th November 1800 UTC at #tor-meeting mcs and brade: Last week: - Time off for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. - Review for #28515 (Provide English strings under en-US for Torbutton) This week: - #27828 ("Check for Tor Browser update" doesn't seem to do anything). igt0: Last week: - Reviewed #28051 (Build Orbot into TBA) - Finished #28507 (Set privacy preferences) - Finished #28093 (TBA banner) - Started #28580 (Tor circuit for tba) This week: - Finish #26690(padlock for tba) - #28580 (tor circuit for tba) sysrqb: Last week: - Worked on #28051 - TBA+Orbot - Reviewed #28507 - TBA privacy prefs - Reviewed #27977 - tor-browser-build+Orbot - Worked on #27701 - Downloading fails in TBA - Small amount of BridgeDB maintenance - Dog-fooded TBA with pre-release version - US Thanksgiving This week: - Finish reviewing #26690 - TBA with onion/padlock - Help finish #27977 and #28051 - Investigate torbutton upgrade bug (ticket creation pending confirmation) - TBA+Orbot UI (#28329) - Release prep - Review all our Sandboxing discussions and discuss what we want from a discussion with Moz at the all-hands boklm: Last week: - helped with #26843 (Fennec localization) - made patch for #25143 (Error when building a component that was already built) - enabled android nightly builds (#28476) and removed alpha nightly builds (#28594) - made patch to build all locales in Android testbuild (#28573) - made patch for #28466 (rbm does not correctly apply git submodule URL changes) This week: - fix testsuite issues (#27105 and child tickets) - look at the logs from `-Wl,-t` to try to understand the issue from #26148 - help with alpha release GeKo: Last week: -reviews (#28051, #27977, #28507, #28468, #28483, #28144, #28093, #27111, #27701, #27443, #27256) -worked on #26843 (this needs review!) -finished bisecting binutils related crashes when enabling MOZILLA_OFFICIAL (over the weekend), opened #28618 -tried to build with backported accessibility patches (over the weekend) for #27503; still work to do it seems :( This week: -review remaining things for alpha release -build alpha release -start working on security settings redesign (#25658) -sandboxing items for mozilla all hands -looking at pospeselr's doc for #3600 -test and finish remaining issue with superflous Tor Browser for Android locale strings (#27125) pospeselr: Last week: - #25702 (new icons) changes for torbutton, tor-browser, and tor-browser-build (for desktop only) - filed several UI/polish related tickets - initial look into #28546 (windows installer branding) - thanksgiving festivities This week: - patch for #28546 - patch for #28561 Next week: - Orlando for All-Hands pili: Last week: - Sponsor 9 report This week: - sponsor 8 report prep - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25702 - do we have an equivalent for TBA? (Anto: I have assets) I'll create a ticket then ;) (GeKo: This is #28622 now) antonela: Last week: - TB 2018 Donation banner review #23925 - thanks Arthur - Worked on #28329 - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/28329/userflow.p… - Made assets for pospeselr to implement TB icon - when are we going to release it? should we sync with comms before doing it? (GeKo: we plan to sync with comms at this week's release meeting) This week: - Reviewed TBA onion security indicator - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26690#comment:16 - Working with Duncan on Security Settings Onboarding - All Hands internal sync + prototype sisbell: Last week: - #27977 - Integrate Orbot into build - regenerate gradle deps, testing various robot patches, branches with RBM build - #27443 - Firefox for Android - add git_submodule field to config to build torbutton as submodule (fixed/merged) - #28144 - tor-browser for Android: Changed apk filename to include -qa.apk ending (fixed/merged) - #28468 - Modify Android toolchain to support Orbot (this was closed/merged) - #28483 - Change Android Toolchain API (fixed/closed) This Week: - #28581 - Documentation for android makefile rules - #27977 - Integrate Orbot into build - Test latest patches, feedback, fixes Georg

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Tor Browser Release meeting - Wednesday 28th Nov @ 19:00 UTC
by Pili Guerra 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi all! It’s Tor Browser Release meeting week again! Please join us this Wednesday 28th November at 19:00UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. We’re planning a new release for the 11th December so this is a good time to come to us with any last minute requests. Here is a link to the pad: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/6z9zWh3BoyCONtyeW8EcFmL5hLhw5TNxKqR2F20… Feel free to add any comments/requests/discussion points, etc… ahead of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there. 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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Tor Browser team meeting notes, 19 Nov 2018
by Georg Koppen 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Hi! Here come the notes to our weekly meeting we had on Monday (I know, it's late, but not too late :) ). The IRC log can be found at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-11-19-18.59.log… And the items from our pad are pasted below, for your convenience: Discussion: -release preparations (GeKo: we are still on track to have a release by end of the week) -topics for the all hands meeting mcs and brade: Last week: - Finished #27239 (TB team feedback on jump-to-80% work). - Worked on #28196 (about:preferences#general is not properly translated anymore). - Participated in design discussions for #25658 (Activity 2.1: Improve user understanding and user control by clarifying Tor Browser's security features). This week: - (We will be away from work this Tuesday, November 20 through Friday, November 23). - Help with code reviews. pospeselr: Last week: - Uplifted patch for #26540 to latest gecko-dev - filed bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506693 - began work on #25702 ( tor-browser rebranding ) - currently have verification builds for Linux and windows using nightly assets from last week, currently building macOS - some open questions: - firefox has built in 'branding' directories which can be pointed to in the mozconfig; does it make sense from the tor-browser-build perspective to dynamically append the required ac_add_option line based on the make target (release, nightly, alpha), or should we add new mozconfigs for each sku? (11/19/2018 11:12:11 AM) boklm: could it be set using an environment variable that we define in the build script? (11/19/2018 11:12:33 AM) sysrqb: i think it's simply add '--with-branding=browser/branding/nightly' along with the other ./mach configure options we pass within the build tor-browser-build build script - do we want to customize the NSIS installer on windows with appropriate branding (release, nightly, alpha)? (Separate install path for alpha,release,nightly) (11/19/2018 11:15:45 AM) GeKo: fine with me, but let's do it in a different bug - do we want to migrate 'About Tor Browser' dialog override ( seen here: https://share.riseup.net/#GouAI9HHZkLR9HbbVxviOg ) from torbutton to tor-browser? Current changeset requires updated the XUL to point to the tor-browser icon set in tor-browser, otherwise torbutton needs to know about which branding tor-browser was built with. File a new bug for this? (11/19/2018 11:19:08 AM) GeKo: sounds good to me This week: - file a few Windows bugs related to branding - file misc other branding-adjacent bugs - integrate latest assets into the branding pipeline, update tor-browser-build igt0: Last Week: - More work on #27111 (TBA: about:tor) - #28093 (TBA: banner) - #28507 (privacy preferences were not working on TBA) - [sysrqb: I'm worried this is confusing and we should discuss this] (GeK: We go with the patch in #28507 for now) This week: - Adjustments in the #28093 to make it work on small-ish screens - More updates to #28507 - More TBA-a2 stuff GeKo: Last Week: -looked a bit at snaps and thought a bit about whether Tor Browser in the snap store is a good idea or not -wrote a mail to kinetik about cubeb temp files (#28373) for further understanding -thought about our Windows crashes over the weekend when defining MOZILLA_OFFICIAL. It seems this is due to us using an older binutils (2.26.1) while 2.27 has the underlying issue fixed; currently bisecting -backported a WebExtension API on the weekend for NRL folks (#27919), need to verify that it works -review, review, reviews (mostly integrating Tor Browser for Android into tor-browser-buid, and about:tor related mobile patches) -worked on #26483 but failed to find the time for writing all of the pieces. boklm picked this up, thanks! I'll take it from there tomorrow -wrote patch for #28515 and tested switching from en to en-US for Torbutton (needed for #25013) (see: #28261) -meeting about our security slider controls redesign This Week: -follow-up snap related email -try to do the remaining things for #26843 (Fennec localization) -getting everything reviewed for the alphas -building releases sysrqb: Last week: - Orbot integration (#28051) - Commented on TBA and Orbot builds in tor-browser-build (#27977 and #27443) - TBA+Orbot UI/UX (#28329) - TBA text selection bug (#27256) - TBA download failure bug (#27701) - Looked at TBA localization (#26843) This week: - Help finish sisbell with tor-browser-build integration (however I can help) - Review and comment on about:tor on Android ticket (#27111) - Finish investigating localization - Prep for TBA release tjr - have a mingw-clang build of esr60 running. - Example containing all the patches necessary: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=d2aff9d1bb5f5d73699… - Getting build in TC is blocked by: - the _finite / MATH_DEFINES issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508316 - Getting NSS patches backported. (which also blocks the x64 mingw-gcc build) - Future FYI: I have fxc2 compiling fine with mingw-clang, but compiling nsis with mingw-clang is very difficult. Haven't solved it yet. - Eventually, we'll want to fix it; but I figure worst case, keeping a mingw-gcc toolchain around for a release isn't horrible. [GeKo: we probably might want to do this anyway to avoid dealing with mingw-clang related issues popping up in any of the other projects. Should save us some time and helps with a gradual transition. We had this for quite a while when transitioning away from GCC to clang for macOS. It's kind of okay] - Monthly Mozilla/Tor meeting is tomorrow. Agenda topics include what meetings for the All Hands we want to have; and hopefully branding study update. boklm: Last week: - helped with #26843 (Fennec localization) - worked on testsuite setup (#26149), with tests reports now published at http://xer3kgd5ygqr7n6i.onion/ - made some plans to go to reproducible builds meeting next month - started patch for #25143 (Error when building a component that was already built) - some reviews This week: - fix testsuite issues (#27105 and child tickets) - test patch for #25143 (Error when building a component that was already built) - look at the logs from `-Wl,-t` to try to understand the issue from #26148 pili: Last week: - Reviewed tickets for next release as part of Tor Browser release meeting - Sponsor 9 report (not much Tor Browser related work :() This week: - More Sponsor 9 - try to finish roadmapping experiments - Looking forward to the TBA release antonela: Last week: - TB Security Settings https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25658 - what else is needed? (GeKo: Some hint that the NoScript and HTTPS-E icon are not visible by default anymore on purpose; we should have a less scary warning when switching the sec slider level as the prefs _are_ applied without restarting) - First approach on Design TBA+Orbot configuration UI/UX https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/28329 This week: - TBA 2018 Donation banner review. - More on #28329 -- I invited Fabby, designer at Guardian Project to the UX meeting tomorrow so we can discuss it. - Making assets for pospeselr to implement TB icon. sisbell: Last week: - # 27443 Firefox for Android - moved to API 16 for NDK - # 27977 Integrated Orbot into build - # 28144 Tor Browser - removed the adding to torbutton (this is now part of Firefox build)’’ - # 28469 Added Libbacktrace patches for rust - # 28472 - Added makefile rules for Android builds This Week: - Respond and fixes to bug reviews arthuredelstein - Last week: - Finished https://trac.torproject.org/22343 (Save As FPI) - Opened https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508355 - Posted patches for Permissions FPI (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330467) - Worked on optimistic SOCKS - This week: - Try to have a working prototype for optimistic SOCKS patch - Help with next version of banner when text or design is ready - Whatever administrative tasks needed - AFK Thursday/Friday. - AFK some of the following week but will be back on IRC after that. Georg

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