[tor-commits] r25868: {website} Replacing TorBirdy project idea with an updated counterpart (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)

[Damian Johnson]

Author: atagar
Date: 2012-11-10 19:34:04 +0000 (Sat, 10 Nov 2012)
New Revision: 25868

Modified:
   website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Replacing TorBirdy project idea with an updated counterpart

Dropping the 'torbutton for thunderbird' project idea since it is now... well,
implemented. Replacing the entry with a project that Sukhbir would like to
mentor.



Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2012-11-09 20:49:30 UTC (rev 25867)
+++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2012-11-10 19:34:04 UTC (rev 25868)
@@ -482,11 +482,6 @@
     as well</a>.
     </p>
     
-    <p>
-    <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
-    <i><a href="#torbuttonForThunderbird">Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</a></i>
-    </p>
-    
     <a id="project-obfsproxy"></a>
     <h3><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git/tree/HEAD:/doc">Obfsproxy</a> (<a
     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git">code</a>, <a
@@ -1341,24 +1336,59 @@
     </li>
     -->
     
-    <a id="torbuttonForThunderbird"></a>
+    <a id="improveTorbirdy"></a>
     <li>
-    <b>Torbutton equivalent for Thunderbird</b>
+    <b>Improving TorBirdy</b>
     <br>
-    Priority: <i>Medium</i>
+    Priority: <i>High</i>
     <br>
     Effort Level: <i>High</i>
     <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>High</i>
+    Skill Level: <i>Medium to High</i>
     <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>Jake</i>
+    Likely Mentors: <i>Sukhbir, Jacob</i>
     <p>
-    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
-    the outgoing mail that it sends. At some point we should start a new
-    push to build a Thunderbird extension similar to Torbutton.
+    TorBirdy is Torbutton for Thunderbird, Icedove and related Mozilla mail
+    clients.
     </p>
+    <p>
+    TorBirdy is under active development and is available from <a
+    href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy">our wiki</a>
+    and <a
+    href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/torbirdy/">mozilla's
+    addons site</a>.
+    </p>
+    
+    <p>
+    The goal of this project is to improve TorBirdy by:
+    </p>
+    
+    <ul>
+      <li>
+        Writing a Thunderbird patch to plug known leaks. We have already <a
+        href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776397">submitted a
+        patch to Thunderbird</a> but we anticipate there will be much more work
+        required before it is accepted, possibly involving rewriting the entire
+        patch; this appears trivial, but it is not, as we are proposing a
+        completely new privacy-safe message-ID header generation algorithm for
+        Thunderbird.
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Implementing a JavaScript HTTP proxy (see the <a
+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6958">ticket</a>)
+      </li>
+      <li>
+        Auditing TorBirdy for leaks and for use with other add-ons (as an
+        example see its <a
+        href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6319">ticket</a>)
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+    
+    <p>
+    A student undertaking this project should have some C++ and JavaScript
+    development experience. Previous experience with Firefox/Thunderbird
+    extension development is a plus, but not required.
+    </p>
     </li>
     
     <a id="usabilityTesting"></a>