[tor-project] Network team meeting notes, 8 July

Nick Mathewson nickm at torproject.org
Mon Jul 8 17:47:09 UTC 2019


Hi!

Here are the logs from today's meeting:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-07-08-17.01.html

Below you can find the contents of our meeting pad:

= Network team meeting pad! =

This week's team meeting is at Wednesday 3 July at 2300 UTC on
#tor-meeting on OFTC.
We have changed the day from Tuesday to Wednesday.

July schedule:
    * Wednesday 3 July 2300 UTC - Changed Day!
    * Monday 8 July at 1700 UTC
    * (In-person meeting 12-14 July)
    * Monday 22 July 1700 UTC
    * Monday 29 July 1700 UTC

Welcome to our meeting!
First meeting each month: Wednesday at 2300 UTC
Other meetings each month: Mondays at 1700 UTC until 3 November 2019,
when daylight saving time changes
On #tor-meeting on OFTC.

(This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) (See
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.html
for background.)

Want to participate?  Awesome!  Here's what to do:
    1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name.
    2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put
them in boldface!
    3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi!

After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to
tor-project @ lists.torproject.org.
After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week.

== Previous notes ==
(Search the list archive for older notes.)
3 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-June/002343.html
10 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-June/002354.html
17 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-June/002365.html
24 June: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-June/002373.html

== Stuff to do every week =

* Let's check the 0.4.1 release status page.
  See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases/041Status
  (This page automatically shows the latest trac ticket status.)

* Let's check and update the roadmap.
  What's done, and what's coming up?
  We're using a kanban board:
      https://storm.torproject.org/shared/_mx8PMGOHFBOximocl1gy3COvhLPr6k3Ja7JA1vNIXr
      Click on 'all boards' and then the network team one. Filter by
your name and check the 'in progress' column is correct.

* Check reviewer assignments! How reviews from last week worked? Any blocker?

Here are the outstanding reviews, oldest first, including sbws
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component=Core+Tor%2FTor&or&status=needs_review&component=Core+Tor%2Fsbws&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=changetime&col=reviewer&col=keywords&order=changetime

Any blocker from last week?

== Reminders ==

* Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily.
* Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week.
* Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing
work for the next releases.

* Remember to fill up the 'actual point' field when you close a
ticket. We need those to calculate velocity.

* Check other's people call for help in their entries.

When you are overloaded, it is ok to say "no" to things.

And it is ok to reschedule things.


[REMINDER] WIP Schedule for Tor meeting https://nc.riseup.net/s/FFkikRBmKDZyLw9

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---- 8 July 2019
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== Announcements ==

[ADD] SESSIONS FOR THE NETWORK TEAM (1 day):
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019Stockholm/Notes/NetworkTeamDayOne


The master branch is now 0.4.2.x.  0.4.1.x development continues on
maint-0.4.1 and release-0.4.1.

0.3.4.x is now end-of-life.



== Discussion ==


Rotation updates:

See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRotations

CI/coverity

catalyst -> catalyst & teor

coverity

the defect browser was down last week; it seems to be back now

(Waiting on update after merging coverity fixes: Coverity does not
seem to have noticed 30150 yet.)

Looking at coverity -- it seems our builds may have been stuck. I've
cancelled the stuck builds. Also, they say they are going to have a
planned outage to upgrade their backend, starting today and lasting
about 3-4 days.  Friday would be a good day to have another look. -nm

stuff got unstuck on 28 Jun or maybe earlier? -catalyst

Correct; we've been getting updates since then.  I opened tickets for
the first day's updates; there are more I hope to get to soon.

jenkins

some intermittent failures that could be network-related

Travis

teor did some work on stem failures, we need to add a control message
trace to tor to diagnose (#30901)

waiting for catalyst's advice, because they are refactoring this code


Appveyor


Bug triage

ahf -> asn

Things are looking OK asfaik.


catalyst asks if we want to re-evaluate
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31081 or stay with
"make the spec match the code"


Please give feedback on proposal 306: IPv6 "Happy Eyeballs" for Tor clients
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013907.html

Where are we with our open metaproposals?


== Recommended links ==



== Updates ==

NOTE NEW FORMAT!

Name:
    Week of XYZ (planned):
        - What you planned for last week.
    Week of XYZ (actual):
        - What you did last week.
    Week of ABC (planned):
        - What you're planning to do this week.
    Help with:

     - Something you may need help with.



PLEASE DO NOT BULK-DELETE THE OLD ENTRIES!

Leave the "Planned" parts!
Leave the parts for last week and this week!


gaba:

Last week (actual):

This week (planned):

. tor meetup

Help with:



teor: (offline at the usual meeting time)

    Week of 8 July (actual):
        Urgent:
            - Taking time off before long-haul travel and Stockholm meeting
            - Travel preparation
            - Ticket triage
            - Proposal responses
        Backlog:
            - code reviews
            - add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem hangs (#30901)
            - disown or quick fix the rest of my tickets:
                - I should only be owner on tickets I will work on in
the next month
            - fix sponsor on tickets?
            - CI for pluggable transports (#29267) <-- this is
priority over #29224 and 29227 in the roadmap --gaba
            - Update EndOfLifeTor.md with our latest end of life
process (#30839)
            - document disabled CI (#30745)
            - triage remaining backport backlog

Nick:

    Week of 24 June (planned):
        - Retrospective on Thursday
        - More 29211 work
        - 0413 release
        - attempt: Reply to proposals 303 through 305, maybe.
        - attempt: review 27801 api
        - attempt:  29817 -- try to re-load seccomp into my brain and
resuscitate this ticket.
    Week of 24 June (actual):
        - A little more work on 29211 (config refactoring)
        - 0413 release
        - Fundraising
        - Finalizing and sending out feedback summaries
    Week of 1 July (planned and actual):
        - reviews and merges
        - meetings about peer feedback
        - more work on 29211 (config refactoring): figuring out best
approach to API refactoring.
        - PETS review
    Week of 8 July (planned):
        - Filter S31 tickets
        - more meetings about peer feedback
        - Reviews and merges
        - 0.4.1-must tickets
        - Prepare for (and attend) meeting
        - time permitting, more 29211 refactoring.




Mike:
  Week of 6/24 (planned):
    - Bitcoin conference
    - code reviews
    - Catch up on mail
  Week of 6/24 (actual):
    - Bitcoin conference
    - Mozilla all hands summary, followup, and Tor scaling planning
for Stockholm
    - rettrospectives
    - Catch up on mail
  Week of 7/01 (planned):
    - code reviews
    - circpad bugs

catalyst:

    week of 07/01 (2019-W27) (planned):
        - reviews
        - start permanent CI+Coverity role
        - more work on #30984
        - Stockholm trip prep
        - take a closer look at dgoulet's "radical changes" email thread
    week of 07/01 (2019-W27) (actual):
        - reviews
        - 07/04 TPI holiday
        - more progress on #30984 -- control-refactor branch in my github repo
        - Stockholm trip prep
        - medical bureaucracy
    week of 07/08 (2019-W28) (planned):
        - travel prep
        - Stockholm meeting

asn:
   Week of 07/01 (actual):
   - Pushed #26294 branch to needs_review.
   - Some more thoughts on the DoS thread.
   - Some more thoughts on scaling thread.
   - Lots of hackerone activity/triaging/rewarding (#31022, #31001,
plus one more not yet filed)
   - Finished review/merge backlog.
   Week of 07/08 (planned):
   - Triaged a few wtf-pad related tickets but need more work: #30649, #31098.
   - Tor meeting in Stockholm.
   - Allhands expenses

ahf
    Week of 1/7 (planned):
        - Follow up on feedback from Catalyst in #28930
        - Follow up on feedback from dcf and teor on #5304
        - Figure out the unknowns I have for the Stockholm meeting.
        - Print post-its for s28 and s30 for roadmapping in Stockholm.
        - Re-read up on some of the CC guidelines and other docs in that area.
        - See if I can help with #29267 and/or #29285
    Week of 1/7 (actually):
        - Follow up on #28930, still missing a minor detail.
        - Made post-its for s28 and s30 from Gaba's pad.
        - Read up on all the CC material before Stockholm.
        - Learned a lot about funding, trying to establish contact to
a possible funder in DK.
    Week of 8/7 (planned):
        - Work on new solution to #5304
        - Figure out vacation schedule for August.
        - Travel to Stockholm!


dgoulet: (offline)
  Week of 07/01 (actual):
    - s27 DoS work: #15516, #24963/#24964
    - Tor-dev update on the DoS experimentation:
      https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-July/013923.html
  Week of 07/08 (planned):
    - Stocklholm.
    - Need to address urgently a series of pending bad-relays email.


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