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.
Network team meeting pad, 13 November 2017
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Meeting notes from last week:
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)
* 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):
- - 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.
- - 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! :-)
Nick:
- - 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