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Network team meeting notes, 8 May 2017 ============================

Discussion topics: - Last week of merge window. Please help review? [NM] - Don't forget your needs_revision tickets (if any) [NM] - some problems brewing re directory downloads and guards? (#21969) [TY] - network team hackfest!

Post meeting: - Please look at all tickets in maint-0.3.1 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...

- If you're the owner on it, and it's a feature that's not going to happen for 0.3.1 -- please defer or find somebody else to do it this week? - If it's in "new" and you're going to do it, please make it accepted or assigned? - If it's in needs_revision -- can you revise it? - If it's in needs_review -- can you review it?

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Nick:

- Last week:

- Finished consensus-diff implementation

- Hacked together a connsensus-compression backend for ahf's prop278 work

- Review, merge, review, merge.

- Worked on fixes to some longstanding chutney bugs

- Met with UX folks and TBB folks and PT folks to talk about bootstrapping UI

- Met with Taylor to work on bootstrapping status report API, talk about faster bootstrapping

- This week:

- Review code and try to merge it.

- Tor presentation at MIT class on Wednesday (6.858).

- Complete or defer all my enhancement-y coding tasks for 0.3.1.x

- Make tickets for ideas about faster bootstrapping in 0.3.2

komlo: - Last week:

- Submitted for review additions to the torspec glossary (#21744)

- Added notes to, excited for Sebastian's initial Rust patch (#22106)

- This week:

- Still working on a rust protover. Right now, implementing compute_vote & thinking about how to translate smartlists between Rust/C FFI

- Helping with current bwauth code on #21846, thanks teor for the review

catalyst:

last week:

- fixed #22103 by deleting useless checks

- several rounds of followup fixes due to test case memory management!

- Tor Launcher usability meeting

- met with nickm to outline an improved model of bootstrapping so we can hopefully have a better UX in the future

- did some research into exponential backoff techniques (we're not doing too badly, but maybe we should tune our constants?)

- analyzed my obfs4 bootstrap stuff a bit more; wrote up some comments and uploaded a log file to #21969

- helped nickm with #22143

this week:

- help nickm refine the bootstrap status reporting improvements

- more obfs4 bootstrap failure analysis?

- other bootstrap UX improvement work

asn: Last week - Finalized the rend e2e circuit branch (#21859) and now it's in needs_review for 0.3.2. - Finalized ed25519 validation branch (#22006) and now it's in needs_review for 0.3.1. - Think about guard discovery stuff. - Open a new prop224 spec ticket (#22052). Waiting for feedback. - Posted some theories in #21969 This week: - Work on #21043: prop224 client-side descriptor fetching - Do some SponsorR bookkeeping. - More guard discovery stuff.

Mike: Last week: - Reviewed Prop247 and commented in email. - Padding and Rusting This week: - Meeting with Isa about Bridge discovery, other things - More padding, more rusting

pastly: - we submitted our KIST paper last week - investigating EWMA cell_count values vs Tor queueing time - sometimes Tor queue times are longer than their expected minimum possible - this could be okay. but what type of clients are being queued longer? Bulk? Bulk and web? - if any circuits are being held back in Tor, it should be ones with higher EWMA values (bulk). Verify that.

ahf: Last week (unordered): Sponsor 4: - Read up on directory connections: the dirserv and directory module. - Started pushing patches for bug #21667 on `bugs/21667` on gitlab.com/ahf still a few things left to do. - Landed patches for #21665. - Reviewed: #22143, #21649, #21650. Coverity duty: - Patches for CID: 1405875 (bug #22177): Needs an additional patch to enhance the test. - Patches for CID: 1405876 (bug #22164): Should be OK. This week (ordered): Sponsor 4: - (review nickm's #22148) - Finish bug #21667 (prop #278). - Look at Nick's changes in #21668 + write/fix tests for it. - Help Nick with reviews when need be for consdiff (if any?) (#22148 plz)

dgoulet: Last week: - Finalized unit tests for #20657. Then, followed by stress testing prop224 service. Many bugs were found but it's getting more and more stable. - Opened #22173 which will be needed by prop224 at some point. - Some minor review of couple of tickets for 031 merge. - Help asn for a Guard discovery mini dev meeting. - Most prop224 groundwork tickets have been merged now in 031! Woot! (#21888)

This week: - Continue integration and stress testing #20657. I do have identified some issues that need to be resolved. Once this is getting more stable, I'll probably jump on client implementation with asn (final block!). - Need to review and integrate the HS e2e crypto branch from asn (#21859).

isis: last week: - meeting with nick to discuss things to work on - spent some time thinking about what i want out of employment/contract - implemented more of the crypto we need for hyphae - fought with Mike Hamburg's decaf_25519 implementation to try to get testvectors - mostly took the week off this week: - arranged a meeting with isa for this week, to brainstrom hyphae UI - send notes from meeting with nick to shari - still taking time off

isabela: - last week I sent notes of tor launcher automation meeting - following up on some to fthat this week - Almost done with DRL review and will email deliverables to stakeholders this week - last week I did prep work for new hires (lots of new hires coming with new proposals!) hopefully will start writing job posts this week (not publish them yet) - this week will work sponsor4 report for April - this week will help organize hackfest