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Hi! We had our weekly network-team meeting this week, but a lot of folks were busy with travel or healthcare or other important things. So, we had a little but awesome meeting.
We love new people at these meetings! Come to the next one!
The logs and the summary messages are at http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2017/tor-meeting.2017-11-13-16.59.html
Below are the contents of the pad where we took our notes:
Network team meeting pad, 13 November 2017
Welcome to our meeting! Every monday at 1700 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC. (This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.)
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Note the meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC! (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.htm... for background.)
Meeting notes from last week:
- * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-November/001560.html
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Announcements: - Review-group-25 is open - Does everybody know about the current time allocations that Brad sent around? (ie, where Accounting thinks that we're spending our time) - We need headcount for TeamRotation. Nobody is assigned for ticket triage this week. - Planning for 0.3.2.5-alpha around 24 Nov; and for stable releases and 0.3.2.6-rc around 8 Dec
Discussion Topics: - Sprint updates: start of Nov, end of Nov. How did it go? - How are we doing on 032 stability? - Remember to cross-check other teams' roadmaps. (See Isa's email.) - Who needs help with end-of-november?
teor (offline): Last week: * Ongoing work with Karsten to graph relay and bridge IPv6 ORPorts, and exit IPv6 support (This shows the impact of authority IPv6 support changes around 22 October) https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23761#comment:5 * Looked at some security issues * Continued to implement domain counting in Experimental PrivCount * Reviewed the inter-team roadmap pad and added some info This week: * Revise the IPv6 proposal * Review the shamir sharing proposal draft by nickm, and add a section about noise limits * Confirm the details of noise limits with Aaron * Finish domain counting in Experimental PrivCount, and maybe do country/AS as well
catalyst (might miss this meeting if medical stuff takes longer than expected): Last week (2017-W45): - some HackerOne review - more download schedule investigation - reviewed more floating point stuff (#23523, #23061) - looked at some circuit build timeout stuff (#24228) - more support on IRC: another instance of someone needing to delete the special macOS directory to get Tor Browser to work. filed #22611 so we can improve our documentation This week (2017-W46): - more bootstrapping research - make more progress on #23605 (don't report progress in building circuits when we don't have a sufficiently live consensus to initialize our guard state)
asn: [Physical training starts colliding with the meeting schedule (training ends 19:10, meeting starts 19:00). Might be 20 mins late...] Last week: - Continued progress with md bugs and #23817. We still have some tests failing that we need to figure out. - Found #24228 which seems concering. Unclear if it's a bug and how to handle it. - Reviewed #23985, #23100. - Looked into #23764. Important hsv3 ticket, some work required. This week: - More progress with md stuff. - Get #24228 fixed. - More progress with prop224 stuff. - Figure out guard stuff.
ahf
- I wont be around during the meeting. My flight lands in Valencia airport an hour after the meeting is over.
- Last week (don't have my notes from home - writing from Zurich airport):
- Sponsor 8:
- - Setup a VM locally to build android packages automatically when there are commits in Tor (runs every 5 min.): missing to setup an fdroid repo to give everyone access to the apk's (if people dare).
- - Looked at Nick's proposal for hibernation.
- - Finish up on doc/HACKING/android documents. Will create merge requests this week for it.
- - Trying to find a way to run some automatic tests on the device for battery consumption reproducibility.
- This week:
- Misc:
- - At the OTF summit in Valencia with GeKo, Shari, and a lot of other people. Let me know if I need to chat with anybody on your behalf or anything! :-)
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Nick:
- Last week:
- - Piles of review and merging!
- - Put out 0.3.2.4-alpha. Too many last-minute fixes :(
- - Opened a few TROVE entries
- - Wrote a proposal draft for improved hibernation design & implementation for mobile platforms. (#24107)
- - Wrote a proposal draft for privcount + shamir secret sharing (#22955)
- - Wrote a "move ed25519-to-consensus" proposal (#23170)
- - Wrote an API draft for more controller C API improvements
This week: - Begin preparing backports for upcoming stable releases. - More review and merging - Work on some mobile performance code with Ahf - Help people with end-of-November stuff. - Solicit feedback on designs.
dgoulet: - Last week: * Worked on HSv3 control port spec (prop#284) and implementation (#20699). * Reviewed and made patches for 032 tickets. * Helped asn with #24228. * Opened #24186 and worked on getting it fixed asap for the last week alpha release. - This week: * Hope to finish the #20699 ticket (control port implementation) and set it in needs_review for 033 merge. * Plan to work on tor-sched stuff (#23993) from the answers I got on my tor-dev@ thread ("Intense Trek"). * Move forwards my 032 tickets in needs_information and review tickest from the review group.
isabela: -Last week: * submitted DRL Q3 report (august and september) * didn't had time to send out Tor Launcher check in email - hope to do it today - This week: * Pinged people on follow up with other teams * Send out check in email for Tor Launcher work * coordinate with UX, HS and TB folks for HS usability work
isis: Last week: - Finished up moat #22871 - Commented on H1 report and learned my way around the interface and how to use it - Meeting with Moz about Tor integration - (It's very early here, I'll remember more stuff as I boot up) This week: - Deploy beta moat - Start on proposal (re-)writing for prop#271 and prop#269 and/or PQ TLS proposal
Mike: Last Week: - Submitted review/merge requests for #23100 and #23114; fixed them up a bit - Started working on #23101 and #13837 This week: - Fix up #23100 and #23114 as per reviews - Draft patches for #23101 and #13837