Hi!

I'm trying to be a little more proactive in sending out links to our meetbot logs for the network team. We're also trying a new format where we put our status reports on a pad in parallel and talk about them during the meeting. So I'm going to paste from the pad into this mail, and include a link to the meetbot log at the end of the mail.

If you want to ask us about something you see here, please use a public mailing list: sending emails to individual developers is a tiny bit creepy sometimes.

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Weekly network team meeting 3 April 2017

New format!

To discuss: * Rotating roles * This pad format * putting out 0.3.0 -- anything else? * New dirauth in 030 stable? * GSoC * We didn't triage 0.3.1 in Amsterdam.

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nickm: last week: * got back from amsterdam; that went well, both in terms of work done and in negative d(drama)/dt * Resurrected calltool, my assembly-reading objdump-parsing callgraph generator. Needs more work; output still isn't right. available at https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git/ . output is not to be trusted yet. * a couple of small cleanup patches (remove tor-checkkey, use openssl includes less) * general consensus diff backend hacking (sponsor4) * lots of talking about crypto, followups, etc this week: * I'm hoping to put out 0.3.0.5-rc. Help? * I'm hoping to start merging mikeperry's netflow patches. Help? * Gotta go through all our notes from the meeting and see what turns into a to-do item. * Going to see how far I can get on the consensus diff implementation. It would be cool to have it working by some time next week, but that's ambitious. * We've got to look at gsoc applications; they're due today. * Enjoy the lovely boston weather.

asn: last week: - returned from amsterdam - wrote a blog post about UX of onion addresses. hopefully publishing today. - started looking into ed25519 blinding stuff. - replied to some of the email backlog.

this week: - figure out what to do with ed25519 key clamping and AONT construction - review ed25519 blinding code. update spec. add docs. - maybe start thinking about cpath crypto API for prop224. not sure if i will have time.

pastly: 1. Finishing up work on getting my kist code ready to be reviewed by my employer so I can share it with Tor to get feedback. As part of that, I'm planning on implementing run-time switching between schedulers with function pointers. For example, scheduler_run would be a function pointer to scheduler_run_vanilla or scheduler_run_kist based on the UseKIST torrc option. Changing UseKIST and reloading Tor would just update pointers and clean up memory if necessary.

Does that sound like a mergable idea?

(yes, sure, assuming it's clean :) -NM)

2. I saw that the network team is working on a new responsibility rotation, including front-line support in #tor. First, I'd like to volunteer to help with front-line support.

(sounds good! we should all take turns. -NM)

Second, I think +R should be removed from #tor, at least when I am actively online. We get roughly zero spam right now, but we also get very little support requests. I think this is relevant to this meeting if network team is wanting to get more active on the front-line.

(not a network-team call afaik -NM)

catalyst: last week: * returned from AMS * polished my 13790 patch * started looking at 0.3.1.x milestone bugs this week: * find a few 0.3.1.x milestone bugs to work on ("revision_stalled" etc. where the user has been unresponsive about revisions) * learn more about PT and anti-censorship

Sebastian: Rust team founded with Alex and Chelsea Lots of Rust hacking We can link Rust now :) Started a consdiff implementation. No unsafe code, 50% performance of C impl without tweaks (C is somewhat optimized)

dgoulet: last week: - Amsterdam was very productive for me. Worked a bunch with asn on prop224 implementation. Came back quite unhealthy so I'm working through that. I've emptied my email stack for now. I still have quite the TODO (network team related and other Tor things) so I'll try to go over it this afternoon. - Bad relay world is moving with some discussions and soon blog post. this week: - I'm planning this week to finalize #20657 once and for all then go crazy on testing and fuzzing (for which I had a good workshop in AMS, thanks nickm!)

haxxpop: last week: * Rewrite the get_responsible_hsdirs according to the comments of dgoulet and asn https://github.com/haxxpop/tor/pull/3/commits this week: * I will refactor that get_responsible_hsdirs if there are more comments from the team * Maybe find some other prop224 stuff to do

ahf: since last meeting: - Worked on prop#278 issues: #21667 + #21662 + #21663. - Implemented proposal #274 in issue #21641. - Helped review #21643, #21645, and #21651. - Looked into a PT regression I caused in #21757 and thereafter investigated if the regression would impact tor-fw-helper. Looked into how tor-fw-helper worked, what it is, and if there was still a need for the tool. Discussed deprecation strategy with Nick. - Looked into our old IPv6 roadmap, issues related to IPv6 code as preparation for the Amsterdam meeting and GSoC proposal. - Went to Amsterdam, met and talked to a lot of new people. - Hosted a sponsor 4 session with Karsten (metrics team) + Nathan (guardian project). - Joined Sebastian and Chelsea's work on Rust porting. Read up on Rust. this week: - Finishing prop#278 related issues: currently working on splitting them up into reviewable patches that fits the relevant issues. - Walk over my Amsterdam notes for different ideas and projects. - Look into next steps for Sponsor#4 tasks. - Need to talk to Karsten about the possible impact some of the sponsor4 stuff might have to the metrics team. (happy to talk, possibly after the meeting/tomorrow! -karsten)

isis: since last meeting: - wrote more of the paper/design spec that is due for my OTF deliverable (#10 on https://people.torproject.org/~isis/otf-etfp-sow.pdf) - took two days off last week since the dev meeting went over the weekend - read a bunch of appengine documentation to get the meek reflector for bridgedb working - sketched out some UX stuff for the distributor and the API that will be available to TB - several talks with different rustlang developers who are excited and want to know what we want out of rust this week: - still cruching a bit to finish the OTF deliverables by the 22nd, so more of the same work

Mike: Last week: * I spoke at IETF * Recovered from AMS * Finishing up the Firefox code review. About 1 more day of work. This week: * Resume working on Prop#254 * Do some followup from AMS * More Meetings

yawning: this week: * Maybe poke at my optimized lattice crypto code some more.

Isabela: Last week:

Worked on user growth strategy update - hope to share it by eow

Worked on final report for ISC

Tried to catch on AMS meetings notes

This week:

Get user growth strategy update done

catch up with the team on follow ups from the meeting

work on March report for sponsor4

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Meetbot logs from the IRC meeting:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-dev/2017/tor-dev.2017-04-03-17.00.html