[tor-dev] Student project to work on IPv6 support (was: [tor-relays] About relay size)

[teor]

Hi,

How are these student projects working out?
Is there anything we can do to help?

(There is no need to identify the students, unless they want to be named
on a public mailing list.)

> On 19 Oct 2017, at 01:57, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 14 Oct 2017, at 01:06, Santiago R.R. <santiagorr at riseup.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> El 12/10/17 a las 12:22, teor escribió:
>>> 
>>> On 12 Oct 2017, at 09:15, Santiago R.R. <santiagorr at riseup.net> wrote:
>> 
>> …
>>> 
>>> 
>>>    With my colleague JC Bach (in CC), we have proposed a last-year student
>>>    project to address IPv6-related issues in Tor for the upcoming semester,
>>>    at IMT Atlantique engineering school. There will be two students working
>>>    on it. It is hard to say now how far we will arrive, especially because
>>>    this is our first approach to Tor entrails.
>>> 
>>>     …
>>> 
>>> This is great! We would like some help with Tor's IPv6 support.
>>> And we are happy to help you and your students.
>>> 
>> …
>> 
>>> How many students?
>> 
>> There will be two.
>> 
>>> How much time?
>> 
>> From now until mid-March. Students will have 135h in their schedules to
>> work on their projects.
>> 
>>> What are your goals for the project?
>> 
>> For now, it's still open, but addressing IPv6 support. We should limit
>> the scope soon, according to open related tickets that could be feasible
>> to work on.
>> 
>>> How much do you expect to get done?
>> 
>> At least, choose a couple of easy-tagged IPv6 tickets, and close them.
>> However, it's difficult to state on this right now.
> 
> 135h is enough to submit a small, one-line change to get used to the tor
> patch process, and then do something more substantial with some testing.

Have the students tried small patches?
How did they go?

> (Snip)

Here's how your students (or you) can find tickets and get help with patches:

>>> Our bug tracker is:
>>> https://trac.torproject.org/
>>> 
>>> We are also in #tor-dev IRC on irc.oftc.net.

It might be worth reminding your students that replies on IRC can take hours.
Some people are disappointed when they don't get an instant reply.

>>> Please ask questions early, and ask often!
>>> We would love to help you help tor.

T
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