Hi,
In case you missed it, Tails is now part of Tor: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/
Time-off ========
This was as short work months: I took 2 weeks off for personal reasons. I'm back.
User-visible ============
- I reviewed the doc sajolida wrote to mitigate SBAT-related boot failures
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20471
- I gathered stats from bug reports to verify that our new idea (credits: sajolida) makes sense wrt. reporting errors about the partition table, partition header, and resizing. We plan to start designing and implementing in October.
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20505 https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20531
- Always notify users of N.x that they should upgrade to (N+1).y
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20542
- Fixed recent(ish) regressions
- Spurious error message on Tails sticks installed a long time ago https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20519
Project and outreach ====================
- I attended the Global Gathering, together with a lovely crew of Tor people.
- I helped a tiny bit with the messaging of the Tails/Tor merge announcement.
Team lead =========
Most of my time left was used to set up new processes, integrating with the other Tor teams.
Cheers,
Hi,
User-visible ============
- Released Tails 6.8.1 (emergency) and 6.9 (on schedule)
For the latter, I've been running an experiment, tweaking our release schedule in order to release soon(er) after Firefox and Tor Browser: https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20528
- Hopefully fixed a race condition that caused Upgrader failures
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20593
User-invisible ==============
My focus in October was: KTLO, streamlining processes, removing busywork, and making stuff clearer, more robust & more predictable.
Accounting ==========
We've been making good progress on transitioning away from the former Tails fiscal sponsorship arrangements into Tails' new nest, the Tor project. There's still a bunch of things to wrap up, loose ends that need to be tied up, but I'm hopeful we should be done with the bulk of the work (at least as far as I am concerned!) by the end of the year.
Team lead =========
- Worked with sajolida on estimating how much work (dev, UX) it would take for Tails to take to catch up with anti-censorship tech (Snowflake, WebTunnel, Meek, Circumvention Settings API). We hope to get funding to do this work in 2026. And maybe some of it in 2025 but don't get too excited.
- Moved most Tails Team doc to a new public wiki, to make collaboration with other teams & PMs smoother. I have plans to go further on this path but chances are this has to wait until 2025Q1. https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/team/-/wikis/home
- More generally, as a team lead, since July I'm still doing lots of work to migrate away from Tails' previous setup, but the dust is slowly starting to settle.
Cheers,
tor-project@lists.torproject.org
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