[or-cvs] r18908: {website} Add classifications of priority, effort, and skill. Modify P (website/trunk/en)

Wed Mar 11 14:03:53 UTC 2009

Author: kloesing
Date: 2009-03-11 10:03:53 -0400 (Wed, 11 Mar 2009)
New Revision: 18908

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Add classifications of priority, effort, and skill. Modify Porting Polipo to Windows idea based on coderman's remarks.


Modified: website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml
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--- website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-11 13:54:03 UTC (rev 18907)
+++ website/trunk/en/volunteer.wml	2009-03-11 14:03:53 UTC (rev 18908)
@@ -90,10 +90,16 @@
 <h2><a class="anchor" href="#Projects">Good Coding Projects</a></h2>
 
 <p>
-Here is a list of ideas that are proposed for the <a href="<page gsoc>">Google Summer of Code 2009</a>.
-If one or more of these ideas looks promising to you, please
-<a href="<page contact>">contact us</a> to discuss your plans rather than sending blind applications.
-You may also want to propose your own project idea which often results in the best applications.
+You may find some of these projects to be good <a href="<page
+gsoc>">Google Summer of Code 2009</a> ideas. We have labelled each idea
+with how useful it would be to the overall Tor project (priority), how
+much work we expect it would be (effort level), how much clue you should
+start with (skill level), and which of our <a href="<page
+people>#Core">core developers</a> would be good mentors.
+If one or more of these ideas looks promising to you, please <a
+href="<page contact>">contact us</a> to discuss your plans rather than
+sending blind applications. You may also want to propose your own project
+idea which often results in the best applications.
 </p>
 
 <ol>
@@ -130,6 +136,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Help track the overall Tor Network status</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Karsten</i>
+<br />
 It would be great to set up an automated system for tracking network
 health over time, graphing it, etc. Part of this project would involve
 inventing better metrics for assessing network health and growth. Is the
@@ -198,6 +212,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Improving Tor's ability to resist censorship</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Nick</i>
+<br />
 The Tor 0.2.0.x series makes <a
 href="<svnsandbox>doc/design-paper/blocking.html">significant
 improvements</a> in resisting national and organizational censorship.
@@ -289,6 +311,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Tor Controller 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</i>
+<br />
 There are a number of status changes inside Tor of which the user may need
 to be informed. For example, if the user is trying to set up his Tor as a
 relay and Tor decides that its ports are not reachable from outside
@@ -414,6 +444,14 @@
 <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>Nick, Roger, Mike</i>
+<br />
 Right now, Tor relays measure and report their own bandwidth, and Tor
 clients choose which relays to use in part based on that bandwidth.
 This approach is vulnerable to
@@ -467,6 +505,14 @@
 <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</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
@@ -486,6 +532,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Help revive an independent Tor client implementation</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Karsten, Nick</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
@@ -508,6 +562,14 @@
 <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</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
@@ -548,18 +610,23 @@
 <li>
 <b>Porting Polipo to Windows</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>--</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>--</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>--</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Martin</i>
+<br />
 Help port <a
 href="http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/">Polipo</a> to
 Windows. Example topics to tackle include:
-1) handle spaces in path names and understand the filesystem
-namespace &mdash; that is, where application data, personal data,
-and program data typically reside in various versions of Windows. 2) the
-ability to handle ipv6 communications. 3) the ability to asynchronously
+1) the ability to asynchronously
 query name servers, find the system nameservers, and manage netbios
-and dns queries. 4) use native regex capabilities of Windows, rather
-than using 3rd party GNU regex libraries. 5) manage events and buffers
+and dns queries. 
+2) manage events and buffers
 natively (i.e. in Unix-like OSes, Polipo defaults to 25% of ram, in
-Windows it's whatever the config specifies). 6) some sort of GUI config
+Windows it's whatever the config specifies). 3) some sort of GUI config
 and reporting tool, bonus if it has a systray icon with right clickable
 menu options. Double bonus if it's cross-platform compatible.
 </li>
@@ -618,9 +685,17 @@
 <li>
 <b>Implement a torrent-based scheme for downloading Thandy packages</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</i>
+<br />
 <a
 href="http://git.torproject.org/checkout/thandy/master/specs/thandy-spec.txt">Thandy</a>
-is a relatively new software to allow automatic updates of Tor and related
+is a relatively new software to allow assisted updates of Tor and related
 software. Currently, there are very few users, but we expect Thandy to be
 used by almost every Tor user in the future. To avoid crashing servers on
 the day of a Tor update, we need new ways to distribute new packages
@@ -633,6 +708,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Mike</i>
+<br />
 We're hearing from an increasing number of users that they want to use
 Thunderbird with Tor. However, there are plenty of application-level
 concerns, for example, by default Thunderbird will put your hostname in
@@ -642,6 +725,14 @@
 
 <li>
 <b>New Torbutton Features</b>
+<br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Mike</i>
 <br/>
 There are several <a
 href="https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?tasks=all&project=5&type=2">good
@@ -670,6 +761,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Usability testing of Tor</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Low to Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Andrew</i>
+<br />
 Especially the browser bundle, ideally amongst our target demographic.
 That would help a lot in knowing what needs to be done in terms of bug
 fixes or new features. We get this informally at the moment, but a more
@@ -679,6 +778,14 @@
 <li>
 <b>Translation wiki for our website</b>
 <br />
+Priority: <i>High</i>
+<br />
+Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
+<br />
+Likely Mentors: <i>Jacob</i>
+<br />
 The Tor Project has been working over the past year to set up web-based
 tools to help volunteers translate our applications into other languages.
 We finally hit upon Pootle, and we have a fine web-based translation engine

