Hi!
On Monday we had our weekly Tor Browser meeting. For the IRC log see:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-09-17-18.00.log....
Notes from our pad are pasted below:
Tor Browser Meeting Notes Monday September 17, 2018 Discussion: -state of the onion talks (GeKo: pad for collecting ideas https://pad.riseup.net/p/G6ToSghBgWhG) -sessions for the team meeting day (GeKo: Added a Tor Browser 8 retrospective; two sessions are place holders for stuff popping on on 9/27) -next meeting (GeKo: Will be in Mexico!)
mcs and brade: Last week: - Did some testing and created a patch for #26146 (`general.useragent.override` does not spoof the platform part) - Followed up on various desktop onboarding issues: - #27483 (dialog closure is effectively treated as "read", causing screen advancement). - #27484 (unintuitive not-navigation buttons, starting with "Circuit Display" / "See My Path") - #27485 (user not taught *how* to open the security-slider dialog) - Filed #27623 (wrong default pref values in Tor Browser 8.0). - Reviewed #26381 (about:tor page does not load on first start on Windows). - Reviewed several smaller patches. - Commented on #27691 (reset bootstrap progress when enough things change). - Helped with triage of incoming tickets. This week: - We will be away from keyboard on Friday September 21. - Review Richard's revised patch for #26381 (about:tor page does not load on first start on Windows). - Create a patch for #27623 (wrong default pref values in Tor Browser 8.0). - Help with code reviews. - Work on other 8.0 follow up tickets. - Help with triage of new tickets. - Review our notes from #22074 (undocumented bugs since FF52esr) and file additional tickets if necessary.
GeKo: Last week: - mainly worked on tbb-8.0.1-can tickets (e.g. #26624, #27264, #27507, #27543, #27546 #27663, #27469, #26556, and #27535) - triaging incoming bug reports for 8.0 - reviews - tjr/sukhe: where are we with respect to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470772 (aka #26476)? This week: - reviewing and merging remaining things for 8.0.1 and 8.5a2 - building 8.0.1 and 8.5a2 and signing both - triaging ff60-esr items - back to "paper" work: release doc update and design doc update for 8.0 - Mexico meetings preparation - i will be afk 9/24 and 9/25
igt0: Last week: - Worked on #25764(making the mobile version of the circuit display) - Finished the #26690(padlock for mobile) This Week: - Finish #25764
- Investigate more fingerprint attacks on mobile
pospeselr: Last week: - fixed up patch for #26540 (pdf range requests) - updated patch for #26381 (windows sandboxing race condition) - started looking into #3600 (cookie redirects) This week: #3600 in earnest mozilla all-hands travel planning code reviews
sysrqb: Last week: Worked on Restarting Gecko during First Run Began evaluating the Tor API This week: Give feedback on Tor's API Finish branch for restarting Gecko Work on patch for TBA only having Private Tabs Note: I'll be away for the beginning of the meeting due to an unexpected conflict (GeKo: That's fine :) ) (not a discussion topic)
boklm: Last week: - was afk until Friday - made patch for #27552 (fix Tor Browser 8 on CentOS/RHEL 6) - reviewed the patch for #27546 (Vertical scrollbar is broken on Linux in Tor Browser 8 with Gtk3) - answered comment on binutils issue: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23466 This week: - look at #27508 (issue with libstdc++ on some systems) - help with building/publishing the new releases - get the testsuite running on nightly builds
traumschule: This week: - more testing, create trace for https://bugs.torproject.org/27110 (TBB segfaults on I/O error and silently fails to restart)
arthuredelstein: - Last week: - Wrote or revised patches for - https://bugs.torproject.org/26555 (new circuit display shows bridge addresses) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27097 (add "tor news" newsletter signup link) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27427 (Fix no Script IPC for about:blank) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27478 (torbutton dark theme) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27506 (onboarding bubble for rtl locales) - Investigated: - https://bugs.torproject.org/27542 (saving websites locally loses pictures) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27175 (noscript plugin does not save per-site permissions) [what should we do here?] - Opened: - https://bugs.torproject.org/27752 (network settings dialog does not switch to meek smoothly) - https://bugs.torproject.org/27621 (idea: port tb-manual to lektor) - Met with loca lab to discuss Tor Browser locales - Met with Mozilla Tor uplift team - This week: - More tbb-8.0-issues/tbb-8.0.1-can - Finally uplift permissions/FPI patch (if time) - optimistic socks?
sisbell: Last week: - Worked on #25164 - Reproducible Tor Browser for Android Builds (pausing for now, moving on to other trac issues). Currently program outputs specific items in dex file that are different between builds. - Source Code: https://github.com/sisbell/dexd - Crate: https://crates.io/crates/dexd This Week: - Integrate and test rust program output (from #27438) with RBM build for android-toolchain - Work on #26696, #26597, #27441
Georg