Hi everyone!

For those I haven't met yet, I recently joined The Tor Project and will be working on the Shadow simulator for the Sponsor 38 project. On the Tor side I'll be part of the Network team. I plan to aim for ~monthly status updates here.

So far:

• I started two weeks ago, and spent the first couple days having an orientation and kickoff with Rob Jansen (NRL)
• I've been doing some work to improve development assurance and velocity
• Migrated the documentation from a GitHub wiki into the source repository itself, so that changes can go through the same review process and to help keep it in sync with code changes. [#705]
• Added a GitHub workflow to ensure Shadow builds and its tests pass in every pull request and commit to master [#707]
• Made progress on fixing compiler warnings so that we can enable -Werror (i.e. prevent new warnings from slipping in unnoticed) [#711]

Activities planned in the next ~month:

• Continue making development assurance and velocity improvements.
• Develop a plan for incrementally migrating Shadow to Rust. We'd like to get to a state where new code is written in Rust rather than in C.
• Start redesigning TCP emulation, with an eye towards modularizing and porting to Rust.
• Start working on process-based separation.