Network team meeting notes, 30 July 2018 - tor-project

30 Jul 2018


      Hi!  We had a short meeting today.  You can see the logs at
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-07-30-16.58.html
and the notes below:
= Network team meeting pad! =
Welcome to our meeting! Mondays at 1700 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC.
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Note the meeting location: #tor-meeting on OFTC!
 (See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.htm...
for background.)
After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to
tor-project @ lists.torproject.org.  After that is done, the pad can
be used for the next week.
== Previous notes ==
11 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001828.html
18 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-June/001835.html
25 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001863.html
2 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001866.html
9 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001884.html
16 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001888.html
23 July: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2018-July/001926.html
== Stuff to do every week =
* Let's check and update the roadmap.  What's done, and what's coming up?
url to roadmap:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdrr...
* Check reviewer assignments at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ufrun1khEo5Cwd6OwngERn829wU3W3eskdrr...
* Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet!  Are
there important documents we should link to?  Things we should
archive?
* Check rotations at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRota...
* Community guides, it's time to hand off to the next guide!
* Let's look at proposed tickets!  [but see discussion]
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...
== Reminders ==
* Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily.
* Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week.
* Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing
work for the next releases
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== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
== Updates ==
asn:
 [Will be commuting during meeting time. Might be online depending on
net connectivity.]
 Last week:
 - Was at PETS. Gave a rump session talk about the latest blog posts.
 - Talked with a few people about WTF-PAD and started a thread about the info I
   gathered: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-July/013360.html
 - Opened a few HSv3 tickets from stuff found during HOPE: #26980, #26931
   We really need to find some quiet time to work through all these tickets.
 - Had someone point me to the "httpsproxy" PT and wondered why Tor is
not providing any feedback:
   https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26923
   I'm not entirely sure what it does, but dcf seems to think it's a good idea.
 - Found a bug with vanguards + v3 and wrote a patch:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26932
 - Talked with Aaron about their upcoming paper on statistics of the Tor
   network.  Lots of wacky stats in there, we should find time to investigate
   to improve network health.
 - Collected feedback from various HOPE/PETS people about security concerns
   people have with onion services. Discussed with Mike the potential of doing
   a "still open issues with onion services" blog post.
 - Helped with onion service proposal.
 This week:
 - Send the latest revision of client auth spec to tor-dev. Haxxpop is there
   anything else you feel is missing?
 - Try to find time to debug #26980 (#25552 bug).
 - Perhaps look a bit more on WTF-PAD and histograms.
 - Will be mostly offline from Wednesday to the end of the week.
Nick:
    Last week:
        - At PETS. Livetweeted the talks, evangelized Tor stuff, tried
not to get too far behind.
    This week:
        - Catching up on backlog from PETS.
        - Trying to get RSA+NSS to work (#26818)
        - Working on issues under #25510 (mobile API)
        - Community rotation
        - Prepare re-triage for September milestone
        - As needed, help with proposals due on July 31.
        - Help with coverity, which is about to react to our changing
its definition of our BUG macro. This will likely cause a bunch of
warnings to fix themselves, but might cause a bunch more to show up.
        - Finalize PETS meta-reviews
        - Make a list of PETS talks and presentations that we should
take more action on.
        - Confer with Teor about what I should do with privcount stuff next
        - AFK ON THURSDAY.
        - AFK next week on Thursday & Friday.
ahf:
    last week:
        Misc:
        - On vacation some of the time
        - Read email / IRC backlog from vacation and HOPE period.
        Sponsor 8:
        - Looked into the state of where we are with building Tor as a
shared library together with Arturu.
    This week:
        Sponsor 8:
            - Look into Nick's NSS work.
            - Work on changing PT code to handle protocol messages via
the event loop.
            - Disable our stats collection service since we decided
not to use it anymore.
        Misc:
            - Look at Tor related PETS stuff.
            - Finish review backlog.
            - End of month tasks.
catalyst:
    last week (2018-W30):
        - made some progress on review of NSS tickets
        - patch for #26785 (conditionally disable an unrecognized gcc warning)
        - talked about some torspec stuff with teor
        - followed up some more about prop#295 (cell crypto) on email thread
    this week (2018-W31):
        - ticket review
        - maybe more talk about prop#295
        - benefits bureaucracy
haxxpop:
    last week:
        - Review asn's client auth torspec branch. I think everything
is good now. We can merge it if everyone already agreed.
    this week:
        - I will revise my client auth code to meet the new torspec
(if the asn's torspec branch is already merged)