[tor-project] Network Team Meeting Notes, 25 November 2019

Alexander Færøy ahf at torproject.org
Wed Dec 4 16:50:21 UTC 2019


Hello,

Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Monday the 25th of
November. Riseup's pad was being a bit sad last week, but it looks like my
backup after the meeting was OK and was the same content when I used the
time-slider on the pad :-)

1) We started out by looking at the 0.4.2 status page on Trac to see how we are
   doing there.

2) We went over our Kanban board.

3) We went over our review queue.

4) Alex made some announcements: please respond to Gaba's doodle and we need
   help looking at migrated Gitlab tickets.

5) We will begin doing interviews for the Shadow hire next week. Does anybody
   wanna listen in?

6) We decided not to do team meetings 23/12 and 30/12 of 2019.

7) Nobody had anything else to discuss.

--- end of summary ---

You can read today's network team meeting log at:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-25-17.59.html

Below are the contents of our meeting pad:

gaba: (updated on november 18th)
    Last week (actual):
    s31 report
    This week (planned):
    grants proposal
    sponsors
    other reports due at the end of the month
    preparing for DRL implementers meeting in 2 weeks
    kickoff information gathering for coordinating a roadmap with almost no sponsors in december, january and february :)
    Help with:

teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time)
    Week of 18 November (planned):
        Take Time for:
            - Write relay/dirauth modules, tooling, and testing parts of s31 report (Deadline: 30 Nov?)
            - catching up on emails
        Roadmap:
            - Sponsor 31 modularisation:
              - Modularisation dependency tooling (#32522)
              - Do more modularisation (#31851 / #29211)
            - Sponsor 31 code reviews
        Other:
            - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews
 
    Week of 18 November (actual):
        Take Time for:
            - catching up on emails
        Roadmap:
            - Sponsor 31 modularisation:
              - Modularisation dependency tooling (#32522)
            - Sponsor 31 code reviews
        Other:
            - Fixing work laptop
 
    Week of 25 November (planned):
        Take Time for:
            - Draft s31 report: relay/dirauth modules, tooling, and testing (Deadline: 30 Nov)
            - catching up on emails
            - post-0.4.2.4-rc backports
        Roadmap:
            - Sponsor 31 modularisation:
              - Modularisation dependency tooling (#32522)
            - Sponsor 31 code reviews
        Other:
            - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews
 
    Week of 25 November (planned):
        Take Time for:
            - catching up on emails and IRC
            - post-0.4.2.4-rc backports
        Roadmap:
            - Sponsor 31 modularisation:
              - Modularisation dependency tooling (#32522)
            - Sponsor 31 code reviews
        Other:
            - Doc fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews
 
Nick:
    Week of 18 November (planned):
        - More documentation work.
        - Finish 32427 (refactor options_act_reversible).
        - 32139 (configuration isolation for directory authority options)
        - 32408 (refactor new options_act_reversible into new system.)
        - Regression analysis on 041-regression,042-regression tickets??
    Week of 18 November (actual):
        - review and merge
        - Keep an eye on blog comments for 0.4.2.4-rc release post
        - Triaged my remaining 042 tickets
        - Identify hardware possibly donate for EOY campaign
        - Finish refactoring options_act_reversible() (32427)
        - Write paragraphs for S31 report
        - catch up on emails
        - Drop support for openssl <1.1.1 (31820)
    Week of 25 November (planned):
        - Short week due to US holiday. Not planning to be available Thursday through Sunday; please use signal if I'm needed.
        - Review and merge
        - Keep an eye on blog comments for 0.4.2.4-rc release post
        - analyze 0421/042 regressions, at last
        - List stuff I want to work on in December.
        - Any last-minute improvements needed for S31 wrapup.
        - Dirauth configuration isolation (32139)
        - Design for 32408 (migration path for options_act_reversible())
 
Mike:
    Since 6 November (planned):
        - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator
        - Read asn's research feedback
        - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post
        - Update + triage circpad bugs
    Since 6 November (actual):
        - Computer issues (mostly resolved)
        - Scalability meeting
        - Read+replied to asn's research feedback
        - Some review of circpad simulator
        - Last minute Mozilla all hands invite + booking
    Week of 25 November (planned):
        - Catch up on mail
        - Follow-up + summary of scalability meeting
        - Update, file, and triage circpad bugs
        - Document circpad simulator and new bugs/gotchas in circpad doc
        - Document intuition behind state machine choice in circpad doc
    Need help with/at risk of dropping this month:
        - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post
        - Deep-thought-required research project followup 
          - (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's Mozilla video, etc etc...)
 
catalyst:
    week of 11/18 (2019-W47) (planned):
        - reviews
        - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff
        - GSoD stuff as needed
    week of 11/18 (2019-W47) (actual):
        - reviews
        - reviewing C reformatting output
    week of 11/25 (2019-W48) (planned):
        - public holiday 11/28
        - reviews
        - sponsor31 wrap up
        - more follow up about C style stuff
 
asn:
   Week of 18/11 (planned):
   - Review atagar's HSv3 descriptor encoding work.
   - Write test vectors for HSv3 descriptor encoding/decoding as stem support stabilizes.
   Week of 18/11 (actual):
   - Reviewed atagar's HSv3 descriptor encoding work (#31823). And went over a few
     revision rounds. Will be doing more revisions as onionbalance work proceeds.
     To make the actual test vectors I need to do some more onionbalance work (and in particular
     computing the right blinding parameters).
   - Implement permanent client auth credentials over the control port        (#32563).
     More work than initially anticipated because of forward-compatibility issues and other stuff.
   - Triaged S27 tickets and did planning for future onion services work.
   - More post-OTF onion work.
   Week of 25/11 (planned):
   - Get back to onionbalance work (#31823 and #26768)
   - Do revisions as neede dfor the client auth control port work (#32563)
   - Continue S27 triaging.

ahf:
    Week of 18 November (planned):
    - Shadow Simulation developer decisions/next step/interview questions
    - S28 tickets.
    - Friday is the "big day" for trying out a complete Gitlab migration to see if things go well
    - Catch up on things I missed to do last week.

    Week of 18 November (actually):
    - Lots of Shadow Dev stuff, but it is making progress.
    - Moved all tickets from Trac to Gitlab. Now begins the hunt for issues/information loss.
    - Spend quite a bit of time with Hiro trying to debug an issue with the Gitlab instance that leads to 503 issues. This is still ongoing.
    - Began re-writing some tests for #28930

    Week of 25 November (planned):
    - Still some Shadow Dev stuff.
    - Follow up on Gitlab migration work with Gaba
    - Figure out the 503 issue on GL with Hiro
    - Test changes for #19327

dgoulet:
  Week of 18/11 (actual):
    - s27: #32546, #30381 (reviewed, merged), #32543.
    - s27: Revision on #32020
    - s27: Meeting with asn, triage on all s27 tickets.
    - Worked on a test bed for the NetDev CFP submission.
  Week of 25/11 (planned):
    - Finalize s27-must ticket as much as possible.

-- 
Alexander Færøy


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