Notes from weekly network team meeting, 15 May 2017

Hello! Our weekly meeting logs are available here: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-dev/2017/tor-dev.2017-05-15-16.59.html Below is a copy of the pad where we wrote our status reports: ===== Network team status updates, 2017 May 15 FEATURE FREEZE TODAY* Discussion topics: - How have the stabilization periods worked historically ? [AHF] - And how should they work this time? [nm] - #21969 seems important! What to do?[asn] - upcoming 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 releases [nm] - hackfest date is June 12 through June 16 -- we might miss isis and aaron j. with those should we try for 26-30 week? - Bootstrap doc? #22265 ======== Updates ======== dgoulet is out this week. nickm: Last week - worked on reviewing merging a whole lot of tickets - worked on consensus compression and storage - today: just review and merge. - Need somebody to review my pending 0.3.1 patches, today if possible? This week - new 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 releases ahf: Last week: Sponsor4: - Prop#278 changes, testing and finishing. - Reviewed various patches and some spec changes. - Helped out with an issue in compression issue that affected moria1 This week: - Get things in for 0.3.1 freeze today :-) - Stabilization period? - Look into next Sponsor4 tasks? pastly: vacation Sebastian: Doing some light rust stuff. Would still appreciate review on the autoconf stuff asn: This week: - Prepared skeleton implementation of prop224 client-side desc fetching #21403. Code needs more tests, docs, beauty. - Put #22006 in needs_review after addressing Yawning's review. - Revised the e2e #21859 branch based on David's comments. It's now ready to be integrated to the larger service-side branch. - Tested the TROVE-2017-002 patch and confirmed it fixes the bug. - Posted a plausible theory in #21969 about what the bug could be (see last comment). - Did some SponsorR bookkeeping Next week: - More work on client-side descriptor fetching/caching #21403. - More work on #21969. - More work on guard discovery stuff. komlo: - Last week - Finished protover_compute_vote, getting closer to a full protover Rust implementation - Helped out with #21846 - This week - Continue protover Rust implementation (hopefully should be done soon) - Look into overriding CString to use malloc and free Mike: Last week: - Reviewed on netflow testing ticket issues - Worked with Isabela and Isis on Bridge discovery plans + UX - Concerned about Guard discovery hackfest This Week: - Reviewing bootstrap doc - Planning lots of travel - Padding catalyst: - Last week * [Coverity] #22221 (CID 1405983) fixed dead code in tests by swapping two loops * [Coverity] #22231 (CID 1397192) an old issue that i figured out the underlying problem for * found that a Linux VM with 2GB RAM seems to make --enable-fragile-hardening behave better in the test suite; was previously getting OOM-killed in slow/crypto/s2k_pbkdf2 * [sponsorM] my obfs4 boostrap failures probably related to #21969 and directory guard stuff. added some comments and uploaded a log. * [sponsorM] reviewing nickm's writeup about bootstrap state modeling; also correspondence with Linda draft at https://pad.riseup.net/p/OroadsO1qBgA * [sponsorM] reproduced jump-to-80% on Linux with obfs4 and existing state. also some 120 second timeout before giving up on a down bridge? maybe this should be shorter? * [sponsorM] opened #22232 to gather info about how Tor Launcher uses the control channel; also read some of the Tor Launcher implementation and have some confirmation that it uses the raw progress/phase numbers as percent completion on the progress bar - This week * draft a wiki page with a high-level overview of the bootstrapping process (#22265) * outline some incremental changes to bootstrap progress reporting that can make a large UX improvement * look some more into #21969 * bug triage
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Nick Mathewson