Hi all!
Yesterday we had the newest edition of our weekly Tor Browser meeting. The chat log can be found at:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-05-21-17.58.log....
The notes from the pad are:
Monday May 21, 2018 Discussion: -Preparations for Mozilla's All Hands meeting? - What tjr has in mind: - Tor Product Discussion - mostly introduce the Uplift project and SPB ideas to a Mozilla Product person - Fingerprinting / Tor Uplift - plan what Ethan and co should work on first - Network Programming (probably?) - UI/UX meeting - Sandboxing - Mobile Direction - what is happening with Fennec - Mobile Programming: snorp, nalexander - WebRTC: Nils, Arthur, Richard -Next meeting (28th is Memorial Day in the US)? Maybe on 29th same place, same time? [GeKo: Yes; will send a mail to tbb-dev]
mcs and brade: Last week: - Revised the patches that we worked on for #25543 (Rebase Tor Browser patches for ESR60) to account for GeKo's feedback. - Reviewed Matt's revised patch for #25750 (update Tor Launcher for ESR 60). - Fixed #20890 (Increase connection timeout to avoid "Could not connect to Tor control port" errors). - Contributed to the ongoing discussion in #25694 (Activity 3.1: Improve the user experience of updating Tor Browser). This week: - We will be away from keyboard a lot but will do our best to monitor IRC and email. - Follow up on any remaining ESR60 patch issues (#25543).
GeKo: Last week: -reviewed ESR60 tor-browser branch -reviewed #25750 (update Tor Launcher for ESR 60) -wrote a first patch for updating the macOS toolchain (finally, we seem to be able to use an own cctools, see #9711) -started the esr52-esr60 network audit -closed some old and unused milestone on Trac; minor bug triage -wrote a patch to deal with Torbutton and Tor Launcher being legacy extensions now (#26127) -tested whether the circuit display patch (#24309) works "out-of-the-box" with ESR 60 (it does not! (surprise, I know) -prepared our authenticode signing to use SHA-256 as signing hash algorithm (#18287) This week: -finish macOS toolchain for ESR 60 -further progress in esr52-esr60 network audit -(MAR-)key creation -a bunch of reviews -getting ESR60-based nightly builds going [GeKo: the plan is to give antonela as fast as possible ESR52-based bundles with patches for #24309 and #23247 for user testing and getting the switch to ESR60-based Linux nightlies done this week]
sysrqb: Last week: - Worked on Tor Launcher patches (25750) - More TBA testing and rebasing onto 60 and 61 - Orfox troubleshooting This week: - Finish TorLancher patches - Help igt0 debug Orfox crash - More TBA testing
igt0: Last Week: - Tor Button for ESR60 (#26100) - Tried to bisect a crash in Orfox This Week: - Finish the Tor Button for ESR60 - Reduce the website that makes Orfox crash removing the noise and creating a simple test case. - Finish my presentation slides to the JSConf
boklm: Last week: - made patches for: - #26059 (Use mar files from the signed directory when generating incremental mars) - #26054 (Make sure to create incrementals from previously signed MAR files) - updated patch for #16472 (updating binutils to 2.26.1) and opened #26148 (updating to binutils > 2.26.1) - started reviewing #25832 (Enable pthread support for mingw-w64) but need to use ESR60 to test it - worked on some ansible roles for testsuite VMs setup (#26149) This week: - fill upstream binutils ticket for #26148 - look at #12968 (Specify HEASLR (High Entropy Address Space Layout Randomization) in MinGW-w64) - review and test #25832 (Enable pthread support for mingw-w64), #25894 and #25975 (get a rust compiler for Windows and macOS) or other tickets needed for the switch to ESR60 in nightly builds - work on some ansible roles for testsuite VMs setup (#26149)
pospeselr:
Last week:
- working implementation for #23247 (Communicating security expectations for .onion)
-no longer sick
This week:
- rebase patch for ESR60
tjr - MinGW: No significant outward progress from last week. Working on cleaning up patches for landing and debugging last few issues. - Had discussions with people about All Hands Meetings
sukhe:
Last Week:
- Worked on https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26073 with Arthur (patch tor-browser-build.git for Firefox 60 ESR)
- RightsCon (Wed-Fri)
This Week:
- Wrap up #26073
- Meeting with Hooman for #25483 (Snowflake Windows)
Georg