Hello,
Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Wednesday:
1) We started out by looking at the 0.4.2 status page on Trac to see how we are doing there. First RC is coming out next week. Ticket #32103 was postponed to 0.4.3.
2) We went over our Kanban board.
3) We went over our review queue.
4) People were reminded about submitting hours via Harvest
5) We were asked by the vegas team to find a volunteer to help the Git team at Tor. Alex signed up for that.
6) We discussed C coding style for the S31 work with "code cleanup". We decided to do the discussion async on the network-team list to see if we can find a style that most people like. Catalyst will lead this.
7) Gaba announced that she will begin working on the planning for our roadmapping work in December.
8) We discussed ticket #32191 about how to help downstream projects better.
9) We discussed next week and public US holidays. Next meeting is 24h later than usual, so the network-team meeting will happen Tuesday the 12th at 18 UTC instead of Monday. Retrospective will happen Tuesday the 12th at 20 UTC.
10) We discussed if we want to do some updates to our stable releases. We decided to look into that at the end of November/early December when some of our sponsors ends and the 0.4.2 work is "over".
11) We shortly discussed how our metapolicy handles the case where not everybody had voted on a policy and the deadline was reached.
12) We talked about ticket #32399 which seems flaky in CI.
13) Nobody else had anything to discuss :-)
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You can read today's network team meeting log at:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-06-22.59.html
Below are the contents of our meeting pad:
gaba: (updated on october 30th) Last week (actual): check on sponsors This week (planned): nextcloud migration sponsors grant proposals Help with:
teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 21 and 28 October (planned): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled - Add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem hangs (#30901) - continue work Other: - Keep on revising monotime coarse stamp bug fix
Week of 21 October (actual): Urgent: - CI issues #32177 - resolved by Travis, mitigated by deleting build jobs Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - voting! - backports & backport deciding 0.4.2 bugs: - Made progress on Avoid possible overflow when converting between coarse stamp to approx ms #31482 - (Prioritised Sponsor 31 over some fixes, due to deadlines) Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Made progress on Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 - Merged Sponsor 31: coccinelle tooling and CI checks (#31919) - Reviews and merged for Nick's Sponsor 31 work Other: - Fixes on merge_ready and merged code (#31684, #31762, others) - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and extra reviews - Helping with cross-compiling issues
Week of 28 October (actual): Urgent: Take Time for: 0.4.2 bugs: Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Reviews and merges for Nick's Sponsor 31 work - Config bug fix #32352 Other: - git-setup-dir.sh improvements #32347 - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and extra reviews - Helping with Android issues
Week of 4 November (planned): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 Other: - If there is time, keep on revising monotime coarse stamp bug fix / stem trace
Week of 4 November (actual): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Merged Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 - Merged associated bug fixes #32368 #32370 #32371 - Fixed more bugs #32410 - Add NSS (and lzma and zstd) support to test_parseconf.sh #32397 - Associated bug fixes - Code reviews and merges Other: - Helping with Android issues - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews - Helped out at a local Aaron Swartz Day CryptoBar - gave away some Tor stickers
Nick: Week of 28 October (planned): - Event at Wendy's - 042-should TBD - Finish all support code for 29211. - Start revisions on paper with Ian & Chelsea? - Documentation work - Help with relay modularization (31851) - Discuss C style survey results. Week of 28 October (actual): - Event at Wendy's - 042-should TBD - More work and testing for config modularization. - Documentation work: doxygen is looking _much_ nicer. - C style survey results, sent out commentary on responses, and draft formatted code. Week of 4 November (planned): - S31 meeting - Doxygen work, tor-guts work. (#29214) - Write a lot of documentation for #29215 - More #30866 work; try to get it merged - Start revisions on paper with Ian & Chelsea? - Plan for upcoming stable releases.
Mike: Week of 10/28 (planned): - Write a circpad doc section on formalization of machine computation and why we chose state machines - Look into circpad bugs asn filed last month that I missed (#30992, #32040, #32140) <-- (gaba: should it makes sense to assign those tickets to you if you are working on them? - #32140 is on asn's plate - you also had #28804) - Look into circpad bugs RIT folks found - Sync with Tobias wrt simulator changes - Maybe write blog post on fingerprinting research paper? Week of 10/28 (actual): - Re-read fingeprinting formalization papers and automata theory (in attemptto formalize/describe state machine strucutres; came up with some intuitions but still struggling on formalization) - Continued work on Tobias's simulator - Struggling to prioritize final circpad items - Attempted to reframe fingeprinting paper blog post; it needs to be focused on mitigations + defenses Week of 11/06 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Need help with/at risk of dropping this month: - Deep-thought-required research project followup - (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's Mozilla video, etc etc...)
catalyst: week of 10/21 (2019-W43) (planned): - reviews - more GSoD stuff week of 10/21 (2019-W43) (actual): - more GSoD stuff - split swati's work into multiple commits for easier reviewing and merging - sponsor31 meeting - created child tickets to #29215 (document new architecture) and assigned some - did extra review of #31919 (coccinelle check-local target and git hooks) week of 10/28 (2019-W44) (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 tickets (children of #29215, etc) - GSoD stuff as neeeded week or 10/28 (2019-W44) (actual): - got more of swati's work merged - more feedback on C style stuff - cleaned up #30984 for early review - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff (#29215) week of 11/04 (2019-W45) (planned): - reviews - more sponsor31 architecture doc stuff (#29215) - maybe finish up #30984 - GSoD stuff as needed help with: - would like extra review on #32399 (test-stem) because i still can't get test-stem to work reliably
asn: [Currently in Tim's timezone so not able to attend meeting] Week of 21/10 (planned): - Vacations until Friday Week of 21/10 (actual): - Vacations until Friday - Replied to C style survey - Caught up with emails + ongoing netteam proposals - Replied to a few trac tickets that were pending feedback Week of 28/10 (planned): - Continue catching up with (S27) things that happened the past two weeks. - Continue work on stem encoding of HSv3 descriptors. - Traveling to OTF summit on Thursday. - (Also 28th of October is Greek national holiday, but decided to work so that I start catching up on things. I might take a day off at some point this or next week.) Help with: - David, can you do the little-t-tor side of the S27 October report? This will also help me catch up with your side of things.
ahf: Week of 28 October (planned): - Will be talking about Tor at Swiss Web Security Day on the 30/10 and at Driving IT the 1/11. - Expect longer response times from me this week because of traveling. Use email over IRC maybe. - Get #28930 rebased into shape for merging. - If I have time look into our Windows Jenkins problems that Weasel reported on IRC (#32320) Week of 28 October (actually): - Went to the Swiss Web Security Day and Driving IT and talked about Tor. People seemed happy. - Continued to hack on #28930. - Didn't have time to look at #32320 yet. - Look into some WLS issues for Swati. Week of 4 November (planned): - Travel with Gus to Freedom Not Fear in Brussels. - Hack on #28930 and #32320. - Continue to see if we can get the asciidoc situation solved for Swati.
dgoulet: Week of 21/10 (actual): - Almost done with #30382. I have to talk to asn about the missing two error codes that are a bit complicated to get. - S27 triage and fixes on: #32094, #31958, #28970 - 3/4 there on implementing cmux tests: #32196. - Help arma/nickm on reviewing and testing #32108. - Reviews and Merges. - Network health needed attention. Week of 28/10 (planned): - Get asn up to date on the latest s27 situation. - Have #32196 in needs_review. - I hope I can finalize #30382 with asn's feedback. - s27 report. - Network health situation is still very active. - Continue my s27 quest on fixing all bugs. <-- (gaba: we need to look into the roadmap after december) - Reviews and merges as usual
All the best, Alex.