[or-cvs] r13968: Added priorty, skill/effort level and mentor information for (website/trunk/en)

ioerror at seul.org ioerror at seul.org
Tue Mar 11 10:28:08 UTC 2008 

Author: ioerror
Date: 2008-03-11 06:28:07 -0400 (Tue, 11 Mar 2008)
New Revision: 13968

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Added priorty, skill/effort level and mentor information for all but two gsoc ideas.


Modified: website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2008-03-11 08:08:19 UTC (rev 13967)
+++ website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2008-03-11 10:28:07 UTC (rev 13968)
@@ -134,6 +134,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>An Improved and More Usable Network Map</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Matt, others</i>
+<br />
 One of Vidalia's existing features is a network map that shows the user
 the approximate geographic location of relays in the Tor network and
 plots the paths the user's traffic takes as it is tunneled through the
@@ -160,6 +168,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Better Debian Packaging and Debian Packaging Support</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Weasel, Matt, others</i>
+<br />
 Vidalia currently doesn't play nicely on Debian and Ubuntu with the
 default Tor packages. The current Tor packages automatically start Tor
 as a daemon running as the debian-tor user and (sensibly) do not have a
@@ -192,6 +208,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Tor Status Event Interface</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Matt, others</i>
+<br />
 There may are a number of status changes of which the user may need
 to be informed. For example, if the user is trying to set up a Tor
 relay and Tor decides the user's relay is not reachable from outside
@@ -227,6 +251,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>A Translation Wiki</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob, others</i>
+<br />
 We require a way to edit and translate sections of the website &mdash;
 possibly resulting in a patch for the official svn tree. The current
 "cost" of publication of website changes is quite high even for English
@@ -246,6 +278,14 @@
 <b>Improvements on our active browser configuration tester</b> - 
 <a href="https://check.torproject.org">https://check.torproject.org</a>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob, others</i>
+<br />
 We currently have a functional web page to detect if Tor is working. It
 is has a few places where it falls short. It requires improvements with
 regard to default languages and functionality. It currently only responds
@@ -263,6 +303,14 @@
 <b>Improvements on our DNS Exit List service</b> - 
 <a href="http://exitlist.torproject.org">http://exitlist.torproject.org</a>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob, Tup, others</i>
+<br />
 The exitlist software is written by our fabulous anonymous
 contributer Tup. It's a DNS server written in Haskell that supports part of our <a
 href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/contrib/torel-design.txt">exitlist
@@ -282,6 +330,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Testing integration of Tor with web browsers for our end users</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob, Mike, others</i>
+<br />
 The Tor project currently lacks a solid test to ensure that a
 user has a properly configured web browser. It should test for as
 many known issues as possible. It should attempt to decloak the
@@ -303,6 +359,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Improving our ability to be resistant to censorship</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 Tor needs even better censorship resistance mechanisms.  There are
 several mechanisms that can help.  Tor should be able listen on multiple
 addresses and ports, and allow clients to connect to all of them.
@@ -313,6 +377,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Libevent and Tor integration improvements</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Nick, others</i>
+<br />
 Tor should make better use of the more recent features of Niels Provos's
 Libevent library.  Libevent already provides HTTP and socket buffers;
 Tor's code for those could be replaced.  We'll need to improve libevent's
@@ -323,6 +395,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Tuneup Tor!</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 Tor should possibly measure bandwidth in a distributed way, as in the
 <a href="http://freehaven.net/anonbib/">"A Tuneup for Tor"</a> paper
 by Snader and Borisov.  A student could use current testing code to
@@ -335,6 +415,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Improving the Tor QA process: Continuous Integration for Windows builds</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob, Phobos, others</i>
+<br />
 It would be useful to have automated build processes for Windows and
 probably other platforms. The purpose of having a continuous integration
 build environment is to ensure that Windows isn't left behind for any of
@@ -363,6 +451,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Improve our unit testing process</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Nick, others</i>
+<br />
 Tor needs to be far more tested.  This is a multi-part effort.  To start
 with, our unit test coverage should rise substantially, especially in
 the areas outside the utility functions.  This will require significant
@@ -380,6 +476,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Help revive the Java community around Tor</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Karsten, others</i>
+<br />
 Reanimate one of the approaches to implement a Tor client in Java,
 e.g. the <a href="http://onioncoffee.sourceforge.net/">OnionCoffee
 project</a>, and make it run on <a
@@ -400,6 +504,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Become the PuppeTor Master</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 Write a tool that runs automatic system tests in addition
 to the existing unit tests. The Java-based Tor simulator <a
 href="https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/puppetor/trunk/">PuppeTor</a>
@@ -420,6 +532,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Bring moniTor to life</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Karsten, Jacob, others</i>
+<br />
 Implement a <a href="http://www.ss64.com/bash/top.html">top-like</a>
 management tool for Tor relays. The purpose of such a tool would be
 to monitor a local Tor relay via its control port and include useful
@@ -445,7 +565,6 @@
 Skill Level: <i>High</i>
 <br />
 Likely Mentors: <i>Mike Perry</i>
-
 <br />
 The Tor exit node scanner 'SoaT', part of the <a
 href="https://www.torproject.org/svn/torflow/">Torflow project</a>, is
@@ -475,9 +594,9 @@
 <br />
 Priority: <i>Medium</i>
 <br />
-Effort Level: <i>Medium-High</i>
+Effort Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
 <br />
-Skill Level: <i>Medium-High</i>
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
 <br />
 Likely Mentors: <i>Mike Perry</i>
 <br />
@@ -509,7 +628,7 @@
 <br />
 Priority: <i>High</i>
 <br />
-Effort Level: <i>Low-Medium</i>
+Effort Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
 <br />
 Skill Level: <i>High</i>
 <br />
@@ -527,7 +646,6 @@
 involve some statistics gathering+basic research, and some changes to 
 Tor path selection code.
 <br />
-
 In addition, to improve path security, some elements from the <a
 href="http://www.torproject.org/svn/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/115-two-hop-paths.txt">Two
 Hop Paths proposal</a> could be done as part of this (since it will
@@ -536,7 +654,6 @@
 fail an excessive percentage of their circuits through them, and non-bridged
 clients should issue a warn if they are only able toconnect to a limited set
 of guard nodes.
-
 </li>
 <li>
 <b>Torbutton improvements</b>
@@ -580,6 +697,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Porting Polipo to Windows</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 Help port <a
 href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a> to
 Windows. 1) handle spaces in path names and understand the filesystem
@@ -598,6 +723,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Make our diagrams beautiful and automated</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 a way to generate the website diagrams from source, so we can translate
 them as utf-8 text rather than with gimp. (svg? or imagemagick?)
 integrate this with a wml file so translations are easy and images are
@@ -607,6 +740,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Improve the LiveCD offerings for the Tor community</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Low</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Roger, others</i>
+<br />
 How can we make the <a
 href="http://anonymityanywhere.com/incognito/">Incognito LiveCD</a>
 easier to maintain, improve, and document?</li>

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