Hi all!

We had another weekly Tor Browser team meeting yesterday in #tor-meeting2. The IRC log can be found at:

And the notes from our pad are copied below for your convenience:

Monday February 11, 2019 Discusion: - vision meeting retrospective?

https://storm.torproject.org/shared/VzVdyS_d0Qxwr0o-ewcRyYcjiviT31bO91dz_Vun... - Tor Browser as a full browser brainstorm - hiring with folks from other teams involved? [GeKo: We could think about including folks from other teams in later stages of the hiring process]

GeKo: Last week: - begin of the month team admin stuff (mcs/brade: I realized we had #27484 and #27486 as items on the roadmap. What do you think about those two for 8.5? At least the latter seems to be low-hanging fruit at first glance reply from mcs: More discussion is needed for #27484; maybe the UX team can test and get some feedback. I added #27486 to our TODO list) - reviews (#29120, #29183, #29238, #29378, #28885, #29180, #29349, #29325, backport of #29185 and friends to maint-8.0 branch) - wrote a patch for x86 Android support (up for review in #27210) - wrote a patch for aarch64 support (seems to compile fine; we have missing aarch64 support for Orbot, though, see: #28119) - wrote a patch for Rust support for Tor in Windows nightly builds (#25849) - wrote patch for #29453 - worked on the NSIS reproducibility issue (#29185), but no easy fix is in sight; need to see NSIS in action to understand what is wrong - vision meeting prep and follow-ups - thought a bit more about the patch for our mingw-w64-clang toolchain, need to do at least another revision once we are in better shape with Tor Browser 8.5 for Android - TBA-a3 planning and work (Torbutton localization which ties into #10760 + mobile branding #28622) - release prep This week: - release prep - TBA-a3 work - doing the vacation thing

mcs and brade: Last week: - Created a patch for #29328 (account for tor 0.4.0.x's revised bootstrap status reporting). - Revised patch for #28885 (notify users that update is downloading). - Helped a little with #29347 (Rewrite meek-http-helper as a WebExtension). - Looked at #29045 (ask tor to leave dormant mode). - Filed #29357 for the Network Team to work on (add an ActiveOnStartup config option) - Worked on #28044 (Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser). - Received and responded to helpful feedback from intrigeri. - Code reviews. - Participated in Tor Browser Vision meeting. This week/soon: - #28044 (Integrate Tor Launcher into tor-browser). - #27486 (Onboarding: "Visit an Onion" creates an "about:blank" loading page) - Spend more time looking at the Firefox updater security audit report.

tjr - Wrote the tor browser as a full browser brainstorm above - Fixed some tough tests for letterboxing. Hope to land it in Nightly this week. That would be really cool. - For those curious: making a colored margin, or a striped or otherwise non-white margin is not easy :) So it's white. - I will go on leave around Mar 11 until possibly late May - Talked to Jacek about accessibility (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520177 ), got a comparison file. No further movement - Organization for the monthly Mozilla/Tor meeting tomorrow! - confirmed gk's mingwclang builds run fine for me - read cypherpunks comments about the toolchain. While I agree with most of them, they all seem to be very non-essential changes; and I am more enthusiastic to work on more impactful work. - this and next few weeks: aside from letterboxing, mostly non-Tor stuff unless someone wants/needs something in particular [GeKo: I think it would be helpful to put the -g -gcodeview behind --enable-debug-symbols or something. We exclude that for the toolchain already][tjr: The correct incantation to avoid the debug flags should be --disable-debug --enable-debug-symbols=""]

pospeselr: Last week:

- #26568 (security settings) UI work, plumbed through torbutton settings to new about:preferences and partially in the door-hanger

- alpha release build

This week:

- finish functionality/plumbing work for #25658, pipe in torbutton strings

- macOS build for antonela and pili's india trip (by Wednesday)

- uplift #29120

sisbell: Last week: - Added patches for tor-android-service - 29312 TBB for TOPL - working - requires some minor patches for versions This Week: - 29313 - TBB for tor-android-service - TBB with Orbot UI (whatever is currently in build but this should be compatible with new UI version) - By end of week I expect to have full TBB generated apk ready for testing/review

sysrqb: Last week: TBA Bootstrapping (#28329) Reviewing TOPL patches This week: Push #28329 branch for review (today) Squeeze in any a3 patches, if possible TBA-a3 prep

igt0: Last week: - Allowed the tor circuit for TBA to use strings from torbutton(part of the #28580) - TBB/TBA release prep meeting - Tried to follow the TOPL reviews/conversation This week: - More integration and edge case fixes for #28580

boklm: Last week: - made patches for: - #29325 (Non-Android Tor Browser nightly builds are broken when compiling obfs4) - #29183 (We are using Linux i686 langpacks in the Linux x86_64 builds) - #29378 (Remove 83.212.101.3 from default bridges) - backported #29158, #29181, #29235 patches to maint-8.0 - worked on #26323 (Build 32bit Linux bundles on 64bit systems) This week: - help with new releases - try to finish patch for #26323 (Build 32bit Linux bundles on 64bit systems) - continue work on testsuite - fix nightly builds emails - some reviews pili: Last week: - Tying up GSoC loose ends and submission - Preparing for Tor Browser vision brainstorm This week: - Follow up from vision brainstorm - India prep - I'll be in India next week so I'll miss the meeting but will be available via email and IRC - will need a custom build with security settings:)

anto: Last week: - Prepared usability testing for India This week: - Support what is needed for TBA release - Check TB build for user testing - Added #27484 for ux discussion

Georg