Hi!

We had our last weekly meeting in May yesterday due to a US holiday on Monday and here come the usual notes. The chat log can be found at:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-05-29-18.00.log....

The notes from the pad are:

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Discussion: -nightly releases, preparations for the alpha

mcs and brade: Last week: - Reviewed #25750 (update Tor Launcher for ESR 60). - Reviewed #23247 (Communicating security expectations for .onion). - Tested the new circuit display on macOS. - Took a lot of time off for family events. This week: - For a couple more days, we still have limited availability for Tor work. - Begin #22074 (Review Firefox Developer Docs and Undocumented bugs since FF52esr).

sysrqb: Last week: - Finished TorLauncher updates for 60ESR (#27570) - Tested which unit tests fail/break with TBA patches (#25741) - Started rebasing tor-browser patches (using Arthur's branch, #25543) onto FF61 (#26233) This week: - Continue rebasing tor-browser patches onto FF61 (#26233) - Help igt0 with troubleshooting orfox

igt0: Last Week: - Helped out Arthur to wrap up the 26100; - Kept pocking Gecko trying to figure out why the latest ESR release is crashing(I also asked for help from the JSAPI team https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463741) This Week - Still need to figure out why Orfox is crashing - Look again in Tor Button for Mobile (What it needs to be done in the esr60) - Finish my JSConf slides and present it.

boklm: Last week: - made patches for: - #22242 (Selfrando embeds the RUNPATH in Linux binaries) - #26165 (make it possible to use gcc:var/setup without hardening wrapper) - #25860 (Clean up OpenSSL's configure options for Windows) - #25859 (Clean up zlib's build script) - #12968 (Specify HEASLR (High Entropy Address Space Layout Randomization) in MinGW-w64) - updated patch for #25862 (move mingw helper scripts to firefox) - updated and rebased patch for #16472 (binutils update) - looked at the list of things to do for #26050 (achieve update "watershed" for ESR60-based Tor Browser) This week: - file upstream binutils ticket for #26148 - review some tickets (#25832, #25894, #25975, #9711) - continue work on some ansible roles for testsuite VMs setup (#26149)

tjr - We know where the (one?) crash in x64 sandbox is and are working on a fix - Scheduled some all hands meetings, scheduling more this week. - Working on getting Jacek as a contractor for mingw-clang

GeKo: Last Week: - reviews, reviews, reviews - debugged various issues with our proposed patch for nightly linux builds based on esr60 (#26073) - wrote a fix for about:tor not shown in upcoming nightlies (#26129) - helped antonela with builds for user testing (arthur asks: what were results? did circuit display ever work?) [GeKo: not sure about the results but we fixed the issue with the circuit display and .onion icons not showing up) - worked on setting up new signing (sub) keys (MAR and Tor Browser) - debugged issues with our switch for macOS to the new toolchain; the good news is I get Tor Browser built (wrote patch for #9711 and started with #26195) - went over the patches we want to have on ESR60 for the mingw-w64 build: tjr: are there patches left we want to uplift? [GeKo: currently not but we want to have backport at least one patch to get the browser compiled for mingw-w64: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448748; we'll probably want to pick https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411401 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389967 as well, once they are ready] This Week: - finish MAR signing key testing - finish macOS switch to new toolchain (including all the other components, not only firefox) - make progress on the network review

pospeselr: Last Week: - finished up #23247 patch (for tor-browser and ESR60), though when applied against ESR60 tryserver tests start failing left and right - investigated said failures, but haven't fixed yet This Week: [GeKo: + start to work on #26039] - fix #23247 test failures - resolve localization issue - taking Friday off, flying to Kansas for wife's bike race

arthuredelstein: Last Week: With igt0, finished up revisions for https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26100 Finished up revisions for https://trac.torproject.org/25543 (update tor-browser.git for esr60) Posted my WIP patches for feeback on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330467 This week: Work on more ff60-esr tickets: (#26128, #14952, #25555) Rebase branches for mozilla-beta (#26233) (sysrqb: great, thanks!)

sukhe: Last Week: - Worked on #26073. I think it's done but I will wait for it to be merged. - Meeting with Hooman: #25483 This Week: - Will work on #26216 and #26203 - If there is a higher priority ticket for the nightly, please let me know. [GeKo: no, #26203 is the highest prio for now]

Georg