Hi everyone! This is my status report for January 2022.
I took back from the patchset reordering and Tor Browser Bundle test. I got Richard's feedback, thanks to which we improved the result a lot. Now we can build Tor Browser (almost) at every commit of our patchset. Builds at two commits (around the integration of torbutton) produce a non-working browser, but this was an acceptable trade-off for us. Please, have a look at the original issue (tor-browser#40562 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40562) and at the merge requests (tor-browser!242 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/242 and tor-browser!250 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/250) for more details.
For tests, I updated the ones that were not working anymore (tor-browser-bundle-testsuite!17 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-bundle-testsuite/-/merge_requests/17) and added some issues to what we would like to fix/implement.
Then, I had some new tasks. One was rebasing geckoview to version 96 (tor-browser#40769 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40769 and !243 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/243) and Android components to 96.0.13. The latter were not merged; aguestuser rebased them to 96.0.15, instead. Anyway, this took me quite some time, but I learned a lot about our build system. Also, it made me find a problem with our configuration flags for Firefox that prevented geckoview from being compiled successfully and fixed them in tor-browser!251 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/251. Eventually, this patch was also needed for Firefox 91.6.
Another big task was updating Tor settings in the about:preferences (tor-browser#40774 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40774); I am close to a conclusion with it.
Finally, another pair of tasks were updating obfs4proxy (tor-browser-build!396 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/396) and some localization strings (tor-browser!247 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/247).
If I have not forgotten anything, that is all for this month 🙂. Thanks, Pier