[tor-project] Note from the Tor Browser meeting, Oct 15 2018
Georg Koppen
gk at torproject.org
Wed Oct 17 06:33:00 UTC 2018
Hi all!
On Monday we had another weekly Tor Browser meeting. The chat log can be
found on
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-10-15-18.00.log.txt
and below are the notes from our meeting pad:
Monday October 15, 2018
Discussion:
-sponsor 19 reporting
-roadmap "finalization":
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tbb-roadmap-2018-19 (GeKo: we stick with what
we have right now and adapt as we are moving forward)
mcs and brade:
Last week
- Filed and fixed #27994 (Use new logo in Tor Launcher).
- Commented in #28002 (The precomplete file in en-US Windows
installer is incorrect).
- Spent a lot of time on #26263 (browser app icon positioned
incorrectly in macOS DMG installer window).
This week:
- #26263 (browser app icon positioned incorrectly in macOS DMG
installer window).
- #27828 ("Check for Tor Browser update" doesn't seem to do anything).
- Review the team roadmap, especially our tasks.
GeKo:
Last week:
-worked on #26475 (Stylo related reproducibility issues); it
seems I have a patch but still need to dig deeper to understand what's
exactly going on)
-wrote a patch to update our release process document (#25030)
-reviews
-helped with sponsor8 reporting (sysrqb, igt0: please have a
look at
https://storm.torproject.org/shared/LDu1Qye1TxTmY8xfTar1vjJ7ix4HOrvJe7Za5MRxhaJ
and make sure I did not miss anything we could add for the past three
months)
-helped with the onion services proposal
-helped with the anticensorship dev applications
-started to update the Tor Browser spec (#25021)
This week:
-release prep
-more reviews
-look closer at #28039 to make sure we don't backport that bug
-landing patches for #26475
-more work on Tor Browser spec update
-start investigating the single-locale language repacks (#27466)
-esr60 wrap-up (mcs/brade: Could you finish #22074 for that? How
much is left?) from mcs: We will have to take a look at our notes but
there might be some low priority tickets that we should file.
pospeselr:
Last week;
- worked on #3600 (disable redirect cookies)
- released tbblogger (cleaned up version of logger built to
diagnose that windows race condition, should be helpful for similar
issues in the future)
https://github.com/pospeselr/tbblogger
This week
- con flue is back for round #2 (have a cold)
- finish up #3600
- take a look at Arthur's suggestion for #26540 (pdfjs
range-requests going out on system circuit)
sysrqb:
Last week:
email backlog
began sponsor 19 report
Worked on #27616 (rust audit)
Took over BridgeDB
This week:
Finish #27616
Finish sponsor 19 report (with help from anyone)
Sponsor 8 report update
Begin working on #28051 (Orbot integration)
Bug fix #28051
igt0:
Last week:
- Worked on #25013 (Desktop is working, now doing small tweaks
to make it work on mobile)
- Started to write a torbutton proposal. (I am still digesting
a bit the meeting we had in mexico, to make sure the proposal is not
missing anything)
- Read few web/android fingerprinting papers (Session
Fingerprinting in Android via Web-to-App Intercommunication)
This week:
- Finish #25013
- Send torbutton proposal
pili:
Last week:
- organising meetings
- re-grouping after Mexico
This week:
- Tor Browser release meeting - every other week on Wednesdays
at 18:00 UTC - starting this Wednesday 17th October
- gettor: hiro has volunteered to take it forward, but should
this be within this team? - meeting to discuss its future - Wednesday
17th at 16:30 UTC ilv can't make it at that time, watch this space...
(GeKo: I think applications team is fine for now)
- Sponsor19 reports: Task 7 and Task 9b -
- Sponsor8 Q3 report pad:
https://storm.torproject.org/grain/7W8G8jxiWRS6BdWEbHAMiN/
- Orfox issues from Fabiola (Guardian Project): How do we want
to deal with these going forward? Let's talk about it next week... too
much on this week
boklm:
Last week:
- made patch for #27218 (generating multiple bundles in
parrallel). On my build machine it seems to be 3.5 times faster than before.
- fixed #28002 (fix the precomplete file in the en-US installer)
- reviewed patch for #25030 (Update release process document)
This week:
- work on testsuite
- check if more updates are needed for #25030
- help with building new releases
arthuredelstein
Last week:
- Worked more on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1330467
(FPI permissions, getting closer!)
- Started work on donation banner code
- Reviewed #26540 (pdfjs range requests not respecting FPI)
- Worked on S19 report sections
This week:
- Finish donation banner
- Add some locales for TBB
- https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27200 (hide Firefox
favicon from about:tor
- Try to post patches for FPI permission on bugzilla
- Help with finishing S19 report sections
sisbell:
Last week:
- Setup location to host android dependency tarball (we will move
host later as part of integration)
- #27440 - using android ndk prebuilt gcc and llvm
- #27443: No more downloads of android dependencies during (uses
tarball of dependencies). Project aligned with all changes in
android-toolchain
- Investigated deeper in why apk not reproducible (have defined some
possible causes)
- Summary: we have a complete build that doesn’t depend on network
This Week:
- Investigate differences in apk
- start integration of changes
- testing of #27441
traumschule:
Last week:
- #25475 (TB Credits): wrote a simple bash script to collect
committers of several repos and need input how to go from there (the
created output has ~6k lines with many duplicates), also wrt to non-code
contributions.
This week:
- collected several TB 8.0.2 log errors and try to reproduce them,
need to investigate why noscript disappeared
Georg
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