[tor-project] Damian's Status Report - February 2017

[Damian Johnson]

Jury duty this month, but that was more than made up for with
tasty, tasty pizza - thank you Shari! February had lots of
great stuff.

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Google Summer of Code
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We have been accepted!

  https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-google-summer-code-2017

Got a project to pitch? It's not too late! Students are already
rolling into irc so if you want to mentor this summer the
sooner you let me know the better.

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Community Council
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Tag teaming with Alison on a formal proposal for our community
council. Initial council attempt hit some potholes but I'm
glad for it since it's given us a much better idea of what
we want the council to become.

Fingers crossed that it's successful!

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Besides this just a handful of Stem changes...

  * Patrick migrated our cryptographic descriptor validation
    from pycrypto (which is unmaintained) to cryptography. (#21086)

  * Further sped up our tests. Unit and integ tests now run
    15% faster, and @only_run_once is fixed so the 'RUN_ALL'
    target is dramatically faster.

  * Corrected unesacaping of controller responses. Thansk to this
    authentication cookies with non-English characters in their
    path now work.

See ya all in Amsterdam!

PS. Swapping from tor-reports@ to tor-project@ for this because
we're likely gonna be merging the former into this list.