May 2014 - www-team - lists.torproject.org

Seeking Bash Scripting Experience for a Setup Script
by William Papper 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi all, Do any of you have experience with Bash scripting for Linux/BSD? We added a stub for a setup script to tor-download-web<https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web> . The script will allow the project to create a download mirror from the contents of Tor's website mirror<https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en> . The current version of the script (with some pseudocode) is here<https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web/blob/master/setup.sh> , but it is quite basic since I have very little experience with Bash scripting. Would someone who knows Bash be willing to create the setup script? This should be a very quick job for someone with experience, and it would be incredibly helpful. Thanks for your help! Sincerely, Will Papper

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Tor blog - first steps
by Eric Schaefer 11 May '14

11 May '14

Hey everyone, I’m new to the Tor community (Hi!) but I’ve had some relative success with migrating Drupal blogs to other formats. As the debate around which static site generator starts up, I figure that I could help with just moving the old posts out into usable HTML chunks (re this). Could andrew/lunar point me where to get a snapshot of the database and code for the blog? Thanks! -ultrasandwich

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Suggestions for Mirrors in Censored Countries
by William Papper 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hi everyone, We've been continuing our work on the download site (current version: https://wpapper.github.io/tor-download-web/ ). We're now looking for suggestions on providing downloads for censored countries. Currently, we have a few ideas for making downloads accessible in censored countries: 1. Host the downloads directly on each mirror While this would work, the combined size of all of the files is greater than GitHub's 1GB limit per repository. This means that we'd need to setup a script to pull from the mirror, setup a cron job to update the files, cull unnecessary files, etc. This solution gets complex very quickly, so it's not ideal. 2. Use an external download mirror that is not torproject.org Could we use something like Amazon S3 or Sourceforge? It's possible, but then we're just relying on another single point of failure. This isn't ideal, and it would be better if the downloads were distributed. 3. Provide torrents to users in censored countries This seems much more difficult to block, which is good. I couldn't find any official TBB torrents, though. 4. Assume that the user is not living in a censored country We could always assume that torproject.org is accessible, but we don't want to make censored users unable to use the mirror. Does anyone have any comments? Any other proposed solutions? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Will Papper

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