[or-cvs] r13087: work down todo list for more 0.2.0.x issues (tor/trunk/doc)
arma at seul.org
arma at seul.org
Wed Jan 9 22:38:04 UTC 2008
Author: arma
Date: 2008-01-09 17:38:04 -0500 (Wed, 09 Jan 2008)
New Revision: 13087
Modified:
tor/trunk/doc/TODO
Log:
work down todo list for more 0.2.0.x issues
Modified: tor/trunk/doc/TODO
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/doc/TODO 2008-01-09 18:23:28 UTC (rev 13086)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/TODO 2008-01-09 22:38:04 UTC (rev 13087)
@@ -17,21 +17,30 @@
X Abandoned
For Tor 0.2.0.x-rc:
- - Put a consensus in place of the empty fallback-consensus file in
- src/config and see what breaks.
- - let bridges set relaybandwidthrate as low as 5kb
- - we need a config option to turn off proposal 109 behavior, else
- running a private tor network on your own computer is very hard.
+R - Figure out the autoconf problem with adding a fallback consensus.
+R - add a geoip file
+W - figure out license
+R - let bridges set relaybandwidthrate as low as 5kb
+N - we need a config option to turn off proposal 109 behavior,
+RK- make it easier to set up a private tor network on your own computer
+ is very hard.
+ - FAQ entry which is wrong
- Make BEGIN_DIR mandatory for asking questions of bridge authorities?
(but only for bridge descriptors. not for ordinary cache stuff.)
- - write a tor-gencert man page
+N - add a bit in the dir_connection_t. or check whether the linked conn
+ field is set. or whatever is smart. add a macro
+ dir-connection-is-encrypted.
+ - set up a filter to not answer any bridge descriptors on a
+ non-encrypted request
+N - write a tor-gencert man page
. geoip caching and publishing for bridges
d Track consecutive time up, not time since last-forgotten IP.
- Mention in dir-spec.txt
- Mention in control-spec.txt
- - have normal relays report geoip stats too.
- - different thresholds for bridges than for normal relays.
+ D have normal relays report geoip stats too.
+ D different thresholds for bridges than for normal relays.
+N - bridge relays round geoip stats *up*, not down.
R - bridge communities
. spec
. deploy
@@ -41,22 +50,16 @@
- clients who have a password configured decide to ask their bridge
authority for a networkstatus
- be able to have bridges that aren't in your torrc
-S * tor usb windows image (vidalia, polipo, tor, firefox)
-S/M o vidalia can launch firefox
- - build a community version of firefox
- . pick our favorite extensions
Things we'd like to do in 0.2.0.x:
- - if we notice a cached-status directory and we're not serving v2 dir
+N - if we notice a cached-status directory and we're not serving v2 dir
info and it's old enough, delete it. same with cached-routers*.
- - document the "3/4 and 7/8" business in the clients fetching consensus
- documents timeline. then document the bridge user download timeline.
- - config option __ControllerLimit that hangs up if there are a limit
- of controller connections already.
- - See also Flyspray tasks.
- - See also all items marked XXXX020 and DOCDOC in the code
+ Nick says: don't we already do that?
+N - document the "3/4 and 7/8" business in the clients fetching consensus
+ documents timeline.
+R - then document the bridge user download timeline.
- - Before the feature freeze: (Nick)
+N - Before the feature freeze:
- 105+TLS, if possible.
. TLS backend work
- New list of ciphers for clients
@@ -91,59 +94,64 @@
it couldn't fetch any network statuses, and never tried again
even when the network came back and arma clicked on things.
also 0.2.0.
- d we should do another bandwidth test every 12 hours or something
+R - for above two, roger should turn them into flyspray entry.
+R - we should do another bandwidth test every 12 hours or something
if we're showing less than 50KB and our bandwidthrate says we can
do more than that. I think some servers are forgetting the results
of their first test, and then never seeing use.
- Proposals:
o 101: Voting on the Tor Directory System (plus 103)
- D Use if-modified-since on consensus download
+N - Use if-modified-since on consensus download
- Controller support
- - GETINFO to get consensus
- - Event when new consensus arrives
- - 105: Version negotiation for the Tor protocol
+ D GETINFO to get consensus
+N - Event when new consensus arrives
. 111: Prioritize local traffic over relayed.
- - Merge into tor-spec.txt.
+R - Merge into tor-spec.txt.
- Refactoring:
. Make cells get buffered on circuit, not on the or_conn.
. Switch to pool-allocation for cells?
- - Benchmark pool-allocation vs straightforward malloc.
- - Adjust memory allocation logic in pools to favor a little less
+N - Benchmark pool-allocation vs straightforward malloc.
+N - Adjust memory allocation logic in pools to favor a little less
slack memory.
. Remove socketpair-based bridges conns, and the word "bridge". (Use
shared (or connected) buffers for communication, rather than sockets.)
. Implement
- - Handle rate-limiting on directory writes to linked directory
+N - Handle rate-limiting on directory writes to linked directory
connections in a more sensible manner.
- - Find more ways to test this.
- - Refactor networkstatus generation:
- - Include "v" line in getinfo values.
+ Nick thinks he did this already?
+N - Find more ways to test this.
+ (moria doesn't rate limit, so testing on moria not so good.)
- - Testing
-N - Hack up a client that gives out weird/no certificates, so we can
- test to make sure that this doesn't cause servers to crash.
-
- Documentation
- - HOWTO for DNSPort.
- - Quietly document NT Service options
- - More prominently, we should have a recommended apps list.
- - recommend pidgin (gaim is renamed)
- - unrecommend IE because of ftp:// bug.
- - we should add a preamble to tor-design saying it's out of date.
+ - HOWTO for DNSPort. See tup's wiki page.
. Document transport and natdport in a good HOWTO.
- - Publicize torel. (What else?
- . Finish path-spec.txt
+N - Quietly document NT Service options: revise (or create) FAQ entry
+R - make sure you solved bug 556
+
P - Make documentation realize that location of system configuration file
will depend on location of system defaults, and isn't always /etc/torrc.
P - Figure out why dll's compiled in mingw don't work right in WinXP.
P - create a "make win32-bundle" for vidalia-privoxy-tor-torbutton bundle
-P - Flyspray 487, create a universal binary privoxy for inclusion in
- packages.
Planned for 0.2.1.x:
+ - anonymity concern: since our is-consensus-fresh-enough check is
+ sloppy so clients will actually work when a consensus wasn't formed,
+ does that mean that if users are idle for 5 hours and then click on
+ something, we will immediately use the old descriptors we've got,
+ while we try fetching the newer descriptors?
+ related to bug 401.
+ . Finish path-spec.txt
+ - More prominently, we should have a recommended apps list.
+ - recommend pidgin (gaim is renamed)
+ - unrecommend IE because of ftp:// bug.
+ - we should add a preamble to tor-design saying it's out of date.
+ - Refactor networkstatus generation:
+ - Include "v" line in getinfo values.
+ - config option __ControllerLimit that hangs up if there are a limit
+ of controller connections already.
- Features (other than bridges):
- Audit how much RAM we're using for buffers and cell pools; try to
trim down a lot.
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