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minutes from the TPA meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Here are minutes from Monday. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies Anarcat, Kez, and Lavamind present. No emergencies. # Roadmap / OKR review Only one month left to the quarter! Where are we? As a reminder, we generally hope to accomplish 60-70% of OKRs, by design, so they're not supposed to be all done. [TPA OKRs][]: roughly 17% done * [mail services][] work has not started, the RFC proposal took longer than expected and we're waiting on a decision before starting any work * [Retirements][] might progress with a gitolite/gitweb retirement RFC spearheaded by anarcat * [codebase cleanup][] work has progressed only a little, often gets pushed to the side by emergencies * [Bullseye upgrade][] has only 6 machines left in the second batch. We need to close 3 more tickets to get at 60% on *that* OKR, and that's actually likely: the [second batch][] is likely to finish by the end of the month, the [primary ganeti cluster upgrade][] is planned, and the [PostgreSQL warnings][] will be done today * [High-performance cluster][]: "New Relic" is giving away money, we need to write a grant proposal in 3 days though, possibly not going to happen [TPA OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 [mail services]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/4 [retirements]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/1 [codebase cleanup]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/3 [bullseye upgrades]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/5 [second batch]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40692 [primary ganeti cluster upgrade]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40689 [PostgreSQL warnings]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40776 [High-performance cluster]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/2 [Web OKRs][]: 42% done overall! * The donate OKR is about 25% complete * translation OKR seems complete, no one has any TODO items on that anyways, so considered done (100%!) * docs OKR: * dev.tpo work hasn't started yet, might be possible to start depending on kez availability? * documentation improvement might be good for hack week [web OKRs]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2022 # Holidays Update on holiday dates, everyone agrees with the plan. Details are private, see tor-internal emails, and the Nextcloud calendars for the authoritative dates. # This week's All-Hands * lavamind will talk about the blog * if there is still time after, we can open for comments or questions about the mail proposal # Dashboard review We looked at the global dashboards: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/web/-/boards * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards ... and per-user dashboards, not much to reshuffle. # Icinga vs Prometheus again Validate requirements, discuss the alternatives. Requirements weren't ready, postponed. # Other discussions No other discussion came up. # Next meeting Next meeting is on a tuesday because of the holiday, we should talk about OKRs again, and the Icinga vs Prometheus question. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 96, LDAP: 96, Prometheus exporters: 160 * number of Apache servers monitored: 29, hits per second: 299 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 8 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 0 * average load: 2.65, memory available: 4.32 TiB/5.91 TiB, running processes: 933 * disk free/total: 37.10 TiB/92.61 TiB * bytes sent: 411.24 MB/s, received: 289.26 MB/s * planned bullseye upgrades completion date: 2022-10-14 * [GitLab tickets][]: 183 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 151 * backlog: 14 * next: 9 * doing: 5 * needs review: 1 * needs information: 3 * (closed: 2755) [Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards Upgrade prediction graph lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/bullseye/ We have managed to still speed up our upgrades progression from last time, moving from December to October as a predicted completion date. That's not as fast as last estimate (2 years acceleration!) but it's still quite satisfying. -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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Cecylia's Monthly Status Report, May 2022
by Cecylia Bocovich 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hi everyone, This is my status report for contract work in May 2022. 1. Onboarding itchyonion on Sponsor 28 deliverables: * Helped itchyonion find and debug a race condition in Snowflake that was caught in the s28 test environment [0] 2. Conjure pluggable transport for Tor * Finished setting up a VM-based test environment for Conjure [1] * Found and fixed some pain points with setting up test Conjure station [2,3] * Updated the Conjure Tor PT client after debugging it in the test environment [4] This month I'll be continuing work on the Conjure PT. The client is close to having everything it needs for a minimum viable connection. My focus will be on figuring out how to connect through the station to a Tor bridge. Thanks! - Cecylia [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/phantombox [2] https://github.com/refraction-networking/conjure/pull/124 [3] https://github.com/refraction-networking/conjure/issues/125 [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj…

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, May 2022
by rhatto 06 Jun '22

06 Jun '22

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for May 2022. Main activities during the period: 0. Onionprobe (an onion sites monitoring tool): * Released version 1.0.0! With: * Revised metrics. * Sample Grafana dashboard! * Prometheus configuration with alerting rules! * Customizable Alertmanager configuration! * Details at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/ * Deployed an instance for Sponsor 123: * Using an Ansible role to be hopefully enhanced and released soon. 2. Onionmine (a wrapper for vanity address generation): * Implemented batch operation. * Added script to test keys. * Included a wrapper for HARICA's "onion-csr" tool. * Some other enhancements. * Details at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionmine/ 3. Other activities related to Sponsor 123 such as meetings, devlelopment and support. -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Joydeep's Monthly Status Report for May 2022
by Joydeep Sen Gupta 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hello everyone! This is my monthly report for the month of May. With six Tor Browser releases in last month a major part of my work was focussed on collaborating on bug reports, gaining meaningful feedback and overall user support work concerning the browser. With the upcoming Tor Browser 11.5 release we are seeing some major changes, so this month I have been involved in testing the alpha and nightly builds and updating the documentation [1]. We received a few bug reports for Tor Browser Android in the last month, with repeated reports of the browser crashing at launch [2] (the issue has been fixed in the latest stable release 11.0.13. woo!), the Tor process failing to bootstrap when links are launched directly into the app [3] and extensions/add-ons unable to install and/or not enabled in the browser [4] We are about to move our cdr.link/zammad instance (Telegram user support channel) [5] and I have been testing the test instance before we make the migration to a new one. That is all for the highlights from the last month, following are the stats from our user support platforms: ## Frontdesk Timeline : 01 May - 31 May 2022 Tickets: new: 26 open: 5 resolved: 344 Breakdown of number of RT tickets received with respect to operating system: (Note: This includes tickets where the user mentioned the operating system or it was evident from the issue they were running into and/or enclosed screenshots.) Windows - 10 macOS - 5 GNU/Linux - 3 Android - 14 Breakdown of most frequent tickets (at least 3 RT tickets): 1. 140 RT Tickets - How to use Tor Bridges in Russia. [6] 2. 52 RT Tickets - Private Bridge requests. This is not related to the .ru censorship but requests from Tor users in China, Iran, etc. [7] 3. 4 RT Tickets - Tor Browser Android crashes on launch (the bug is resolved now!) [1] 4. 4 RT Tickets - "Proxy Server refused connection" (Tor fails to bootstrap) if link from other app are opened in TBA [2] 5. 3 RT Tickets - Can't install extensions on TBA [3] 6. 3 RT Tickets - Tor metrics showing geolocations of some relays incorrectly [8] ## Tor Forum Most popular topics in the Support category (in terms of no. of views): 1. Censorship circumvention: "如何在中国大陆绕过 GFW 防火长城连接到 Tor？" ("How to circumvent the Great Firewall and connect to Tor from China?") [9] 2. Relay operator: "Unexpected path length 4 for exit circuit X, purpose 5" [10] 3. Relay operator: "(Issue with) Running a bridge in Russia" [11] 4. Relay operator: "Periodically disposing of current public IP on bridge node, a good thing?" [12] 5. Censorship circumvention: "How can I use Tor in China where network was blocked" [13] Thanks, -- Joydeep [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212 [3]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40536 [4]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40606 [5]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40592 [6]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-cens… [7]: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-china/ [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40336 [9]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/gfw-tor/3447 [10]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/unexpected-path-length-4-for-exit-circuit-x-… [11]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/running-a-bridge-in-russia/3184 [12]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/periodically-disposing-of-current-public-ip-… [13]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/how-can-i-use-tor-in-china-where-network-was…

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-02
by meskio 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday June 9nd 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in 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: * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net == Discussion == Endless loop on the latest snowflake: Tor NOTICE: Managed proxy "TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\snowflake-client.exe": broker failure timed out waiting for answer! Tor NOTICE: Managed proxy "TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\snowflake-client.exe": connection failed timeout waiting for DataChannel.OnOpen * Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) is now under review. Comments are welcome (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) * count disctinct proxy ips, to see how fast they change * enforce 2FA in gitlab * all accounts with group commit access have 2FA in gitlab already :) == Actions == * == Interesting links == == Reading group == * We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23 * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559 * Questions to ask and goals to have: * What aspects of the paper are questionable? * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? * Is there future work that we want to call out in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-06-02 Last week: - updated gitlab CI to include go v1.18 (snowflake#40144) - Remove redundant NAT check at standalone proxy startup (snowflake#40146) - resolved snowflake#40145 - reviews This week: - continued work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-06-02 Last week: - set up access to snowflake-02 bridge site for shelikhoo https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - posted about other DTLS fingerprints that are being filtered in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 Help with: meskio: 2022-06-02 Last week: - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72) - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143) - don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96) - contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have an old version of obfs4proxy Next week: - start working on gettor (rdsys#105) Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26 Last Week: - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) (snowflake!95) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) - [Research & Discussion] HTTPT & V2Ray related Itchy Onion: 2022-06-02 Last week: - work on s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker) This week: - continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests) - ongoing debugging with s28 (there are other issues, not sure if related to issue 81 yet) - working on issue 40117 (display NAT log type to stderr in nonverbose mode) -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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Nina's Monthly Status Report, May 2022
by nina13＠riseup.net 02 Jun '22

02 Jun '22

Hi, everyone, This is my Status report for May 2022. As usual, I focused on user support for Russian users. - Telegram channel (@TorProjectSupportBot): 514 - Email (frontdesk@tpo): 188 Total: 702 tickets were successfully resolved. Also, in May, I took part in the "Become an Alpha Tester" campaign, helping with the English-to-Russian translation of social media texts like tweets[1], forum posts[2], and, also, user support templates[3]. Taking part in the campaign, I collected feedback from Russian-speaking alpha-testers, and I spotted a minor issue with the Help button[4]. And I also found a problem with some fonts in a stable version of the Tor Browser[5]. Due to retiring the old Zammad/cdr.link instance, I took part in testing the new one [6]. I added an article to the frontdesk with bridges for Turkmenistan as we started to get more requests about this country: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2022-03… As the Tor Project took part in the DemHack Hackathon in Russia, I translated a tweet for our account [7]. [1] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1525097804351344641 [2] https://forum.torproject.net/t/become-an-alpha-tester/31 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40079#note_280… [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40971 [5] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41004 [6] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40592#note_2808575 [7] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1527712240912084992

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, May 2022
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hi everyone! Here is my status report for May 2022. Part of my work this month was again on Android. I finally resolved the crash we had for a while [0] in 11.0.13, or so I hope 😁. So far, all users have told us that they do not encounter that problem anymore, so please let us know if it is not the case for you. I also helped prepare and release the two releases and the two alphas we had this month (11.0.12, 11.0.13, 11.5a10, and 11.5a12). Other improvements on my side are that now testbuilds are single architecture (so they are much faster to build) [1], and all the QA APKs we produce are now compatible with Android 10+ [2]. For desktop, I updated some of our patches to make them easier to upstream to Firefox, and I have already sent them to Mozilla [3]. Some were accepted, some are still being reviewed, and a pair was rejected. I also set everything up to include an offline copy of the Tor Browser manual in the bundle and accessible within the browser [4]. Finally, I fixed some minor issues on the work done in the previous months on the about:torconnect page and on the connection settings. Thanks, Pier [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212 [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40202 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40917 [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/11698

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UX team meeting notes, May 24th
by Duncan Russell 31 May '22

31 May '22

Hello, Thanks to everyone who made it to last week's UX Team meeting. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again later today. Here are the minutes: http <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>s://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24 <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>-15 <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>.59.log.html <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…> Last week we shared an update on key projects across the team, and discussed the new anti-censorship user flows planned for Tor Browser 11.5. *** == User Experience Team Meeting == UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1600 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the logs from our meeting on May 24th: http <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>s://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24 <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>-15 <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…>.59.log.html <https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-24-15.59.lo…> == Useful links == About the UX Team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team> UX repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux> UX roadmap: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=… <https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=…> UX kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX…> == Meetbot commands == - #startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting - #endmeeting --------------------------- Tuesday May 24th @ 16:00 UTC --------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 – Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S30 – Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&…> S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24> S101 – Tor VPN Client for Android https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32> S123 – Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34> == Announcements == New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 11.5a11 (Desktop) https://blog.torproject.org/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a11/>new-release-tor-browser-115a11 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a11/>/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a11/> New Release: Tor Browser 11.0.13 (Desktop & Android) https://blog.torproject.org/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/>new-release-tor-browser-11 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/>01 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/>3 <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/>/ <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11013/> == Agenda == Evergreen items: 1. Announcements 📣 2. Weekly planning 📅 3. Check-in with user support 💬 == Weekly planning == Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold** duncan/donuts Last week (actual): - Caught up on email backlog - Reviewed the latest challenges and needs report in ux/research#25 - Reviewed the interview script feeback for S101 - Reviewed the Annual Report in operations/communications#52 This week (planned): - Design mockup for the bundled tb-manual in applications/tor-browser#40885 - Design QA for TB 11.5a11 in applications/tor-browser#40911 - Write blog post to support the Community QA recruitment campaign in operations/communications#65 - Reivew Joydeep's notes for tb-manual updates - Present Connection Assist at the East Africa meetup - Attend the VPN Unconference Backlog/time permitting: - Start thinking about social previews/teasers for Tor Browser 11.5 - Begin wireframes for the Tor VPN in ux/design#35 Nah Last week (actual): - updated and published s9 report - analysed VPN possible interviews (review survey results and interview script) - participated in the Ooni training with Derechos Digitales - started collecting feedback on localized material (s9) - started s96 research plan - reaching out to possible interviewees for the vpn research This week (planned): - call with east africa organization (possible training and collecting feedback mid-June) - east africa meetup on thursday - reaching out to possible testers for s96 - reaching out more possible interviewees for the vpn research - past fellowship work a couple of times this week! Nicob Last week (actual): - Annual report: illustrations/graphics, submitted draft to the team for review, incorporating edits based on feedback, began concepting work for cover page - USAGM: continued QA work with Kez on responsive for LTR and RTL - Began wireframes for redesign of tor download page, met with Duncan for first review/feedback session: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248> - GSoC graphic for comms This week (planned): - Annual report: Incorporate any more edits/feedback there may be, finish cover page - S9: Incorporate feedback into wireframes for Tor download page - Create social graphic for congestion control social post - Start work on updating figjam file for org chart Joydeep Check-in with user support: - working on Tor Browser User Manual updates wrt 11.5 release (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119>) - pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tb-11-5-updates <https://pad.riseup.net/p/tb-11-5-updates> (feedback welcome!) - What are all the user workflows wrt the new Connection Assist in TB 11.5? == Open Call for User Research == Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ <https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/> Thanks everyone! *** Duncan Larsen-Russell Product Manager & UX Team Lead duncan(a)torproject.org <mailto:duncan@torproject.org>

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Tor Browser Meeting moved to 2022-05-31
by Richard Pospesel 29 May '22

29 May '22

Hi Everyone, Tomorrow is a holiday, so we'll be moving the Tor Browser meeting to Tuesday (2022-05-31) at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC. best, -Richard

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-26
by Shelikhoo 26 May '22

26 May '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday June 3rd 16:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) == Goal of this meeting == Weekly check-in 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: * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net == Discussion == * enforce 2FA in gitlab commit access accounts? * yes, let's do that * meskio will contact the people that doesn't have 2FA to see if they can get it set up * go 1.18 & snowflake * CI will be updated to cover go 1.18 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… == Actions == * Send a WireGuard public key to dcf if you want shell access to the snowflake-02 bridge * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Gui… == Interesting links == == Reading group == * We will discuss "" on * * Questions to ask and goals to have: * What aspects of the paper are questionable? * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work? * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work? * Is there future work that we want to call out in hopes that others will pick it up? == Updates == Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week. Help with: - Something you need help with. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-05-26 Last week: - bumped version of pion/webrtc and pion/dtls in snowflake and tor browser - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_re… - updated changelog for snowflake library v2.2.0 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - worked a bit on snowflake paper - helped itchy with #40142 This week: - continued work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-05-25 (will miss 2022-05-26 meeting) Last week: - sent follow-up to stunprotocol.org mailing list to see if resolving to localhost in RU and UA is expected https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/stunprotocol/20220519170106.tz2ylxws6ygfj… - set up WireGuard access control for snowflake-02 bridge site https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 - make user accounts for snowflake-02 bridge site Help with: meskio: 2022-05-26 Last week: - distributor retries to rdsys backend (rdsys#99) - String method to snowflake events (snowflake!89) - run bridgestrap tests in the CI (bridgestrap#35) - fix problems with bridgestrap after bullseye upgrade (bridgestrap#34) - upload docker images for the new version of snowflake-proxy - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143) Next week: - start working on gettor (rdsys#105) - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72) - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143) Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26 Last Week: - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…) Itchy Onion: 2022-05-26 Last week: - work on the snowflake issues assigned to me (!84, !88) - review MRs assigned to me This week: - work on s28 issue 81 (broker crashes under load) arlolra: 2022-04-07 Last week: - Merged the rest of snowflake !81 Next week: - Get to snowflake-webext #10 Evergreen: - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Help with: - anadahz: 2022-01-27 Last week: - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/mer… HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16 This week: Last/done: Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space Next: Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… re: utls for broker negotiation - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74 - Too busy with work :/ Next week: - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper

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