[tor-project] Network team meeting notes, 24 June 2019
Nick Mathewson
nickm at freehaven.net
Tue Jun 25 12:24:37 UTC 2019
Hello!
You can read the logs from yesterday's meeting at
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-06-24-17.00.html
Below are the contents of our meeting pad.
= Network team meeting pad! =
This week's team meeting is at Monday 24 June at 1700 UTC on
#tor-meeting on OFTC.
June schedule:
* Monday 24 June at 1700 UTC
July schedule:
* Wednesday 3 July 2300 UTC
* 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.
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https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.html
for background.)
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After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week.
== Previous notes ==
(Search the list archive for older notes.)
28 May: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-May/002338.html
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
== Stuff to do every week =
* How are we managing CI failures from last week?
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CIFailures
* 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.
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---- 24 June 2019
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== Announcements ==
[REMINDER] WIP Schedule for Tor meeting https://nc.riseup.net/s/FFkikRBmKDZyLw9
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.
Summary the mail thread on proposal from Dgoulet
https://nc.riseup.net/s/gQGT8kjNgt3C6cd
== Discussion ==
Retrospective on Thursday. How people want to do the retrospective?
(please vote)
jitsi +1 +1
irc
other?
#29697 Anybody up to team with boklm to coordinate archive.tpo
Please update https://pad.riseup.net/p/network-team-draft-CI-role and
vote yes/no on the change into a permanent role for CI. Can we start
soon?
Rotation updates:
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRotations
CI/coverity
ahf -> catalyst
coverity
(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
jenkins
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
teor -> ahf
Everything seems ok, I might have missed some patches and things
earlier in the week.
== 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):
. gitlab
This week (planned):
. sponsor 31 adjustment with new tickets
. more gitlab
Help with:
teor: (offline at the usual meeting time)
Week of 17 June (planned):
Urgent:
- triage 0.4.0 backport backlog by Wednesday, so we can
decide whether to do an 0.4.0.6
- after 0.4.0.6, I will be maintaining 0.4.0.
- More HR stuff
- use sponsor-NN-maybe and cc Gaba rather than setting the
sponsor on tickets
- fix existing open tickets where I have added the sponsor
- Fallback directory mirror list rebuild (#28793)
- code reviews
- add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem hangs (#30901)
- merge chutney pull requests
- disown or quick fix tickets: I should only be owner on
tickets I will work on in the next month
- bug triage rotation
Important:
- 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
Low-Priority:
- backlog: router_have_consensus_path() logs an incorrect
"no exits in consensus" (#27448)
- Update wiki and send email about first meeting of month
changing to Wednesday 2300 UTC
- maybe do this on Tuesday in the last week of the month?
Week of 17 June (actual):
Urgent:
- triage 0.4.0 backport backlog by Wednesday, so we can
decide whether to do an 0.4.0.6
- after 0.4.0.6, I will be maintaining 0.4.0.
- More HR stuff
- use sponsor-NN-maybe and cc Gaba rather than setting the
sponsor on tickets
- fixed some existing open tickets where I have added
the sponsor
- some code reviews
- merged some chutney pull requests
- Fallback directory mirror list rebuild (#28793)
- draft list
- need to work out why the list is so short this time (#30952)
- some bug triage
- sbws triage and fixes
- Fixed PT extra-info bugs introduced in 0.4.1.1-alpha and
0.2.7.2-alpha (#30956, #30958)
- disowned some tickets, more next week
Important:
- reviews of new onion service DoS code
- designed API for pool abstraction
- work on proposal/questions for possible trac migration
- travel prep
- process changes
Week of 24 June (planned):
Urgent:
- fix existing open tickets where I have added the sponsor
- Continue fallback directory mirror list rebuild (#28793)
- need to work out why the list is so short this time (#30952)
- 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
- Update wiki and send email about first meeting of month
changing to Wednesday 2300 UTC
- maybe do this on Tuesday in the last week of the month?
Important:
- 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
Week of 24 June (actual):
Urgent:
-
Important:
-
Low Priority:
-
Help needed:
- catalyst, do you have advice on:
- add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem
hangs (#30901)
[catalyst: i'll try to look at it this week]
Nick:
Week of 17 June (planned):
- Summarize employee feedback
- PETS review
- 0.4.0.6 release, maybe.
- Reply to proposals 303 through 305, maybe.
- Reviews and merges
- 29211 -- refactor configuration code.
- 29280 -- needs_revision, chutney in ci code
- 27801 -- review proposed API for launching sockets with embedded tor
- 29817 -- try to re-load seccomp into my brain and
resuscitate this ticket.
Week of 17 June (actual):
- Code reviews
- PETS review
- Work on various 29211 subtickets. (configuration refactoring)
- Start summarizing employee feedback. (4/6 done)
- Defer 0406 release; start 0413 release
- try to catch up with backlog
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.
Mike:
Week of 6/17 (planned):
- Mozilla all hands performance and scalability meetings + discussion
- Performance metrics finalization
Week of 6/17 (actual):
- Mozilla all hands performance and scalability meetings + discussion
- Performance metrics finalization
Week of 6/24 (planned):
- Bitcoin conference
- code reviews
- Catch up on mail
catalyst:
week of 06/17 (2019-W25) (planned):
- reviews
- control.c refactoring
week of 06/17 (2019-W25) (actual):
- chatted with ahf re #28930 (msybe reorder some PT/proxy
bootstrap phases)
- bureaucracy
- wrote up #30911 to document some inbound email problems
- cleaned up my owned tickets a little
week of 06/24 (2019-W26) (planned):
- CI+Coverity rotation
- reviews
- take a closer look at dgoulet's "radical changes" email thread
- help teor with #30901 (control port trace logging for
debugging test-stem hangs)
- more bureaucracy
- starting Stockholm trip prep
- hopefully have time to work on control.c refactor
asn:
Week of 06/03 (planned):
- Finalize s27 o2a1.
- Help organize our AllHands experience.
- Fix #30578 circpadding bug (041-must).
- Do more work on HS DoS.
- Some more travel prep for allhands.
Week of 06/03 (actual):
- Finally managed to get #30381 in needs_review.
- Wrote some scaling emails.
- Worked on #30578 (041-must).
- Did some work on HS DoS:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013873.html
- Cleaned most of my review backlog, but there is still more.
- Merged prop304 to torpec.
Week of 06/10 (planned):
- #30381 is now in needs_revision. Need to do that.
- More prepping for AllHands. Flying out on Sunday.
- Try to do some work on s27 #26294 (intro point rotation dos)
- Still got reviews hanging. In particular #30382.
- I also got lots of hanging merges...
Help needed:
- teor, I still have troubles mapping all the pieces of #22029 in my brain.
Perhaps at some point you can take over the review of that ticket, and I
can take one big review from you? I don't see you having any big reviews
this week, so perhaps we can wait until next week.
teor says: I assigned myself as reviewer on this ticket. neel is
still working on it, when he finishes, I will split off some of the
small features so other people can review them.
ahf
Week of 17/6 (planned):
Network team:
- Finish off patches for #29736 so we can discuss the big
changes at the Thursday meeting.
- Continue with #28930.
Misc:
- Figure out what needs to be doing on some of the PT spec
tickets I have.
Week of 17/6 (actually):
Network team:
- Discussed #29736 and authentication patches during
anti-censorship team meeting.
- Rebased and discussed current changes for #28930 with catalyst
and decided next step.
- Wrote patches for CI build failures for Stem and Chutney
in #30928.
- Figured out next steps for #5304
Week of 24/6 (planned):
Network team:
- Continue iteration of #28930 and discuss progress with catalyst.
- Write Tor patch for #5304 (spec is OK)
- Bug Triage duty.
- Work a little bit on 'untrac' (a small tool to import
Trac tickets into Gitlab that Gaba and I talked about during my 1:1
last Friday).
juga(offline):
Week of 05/20 (planned)
- Add Tor version to the bandwidth file (#30196)
Week of 05/20 (actual)
Week of 06/03 (plan)
- Continue with #30406: Refactor header constants in sbws to
use Stem's one
dgoulet: (might be offline, getting sleep has been very rough in the
last days...)
Week of 06/10 (actual):
- Tested and experimented with #15516. Had to wait a bit to get new
machines from a friend at a hosting provider in order to start limited
bw relays. Thanks to ahf for providing assistance with his fast relays.
- Wrote prop305 (on tor-dev@) about ESTABLISH_INTRO parameters. See
#30790. Thanks from teor/asn for early feedbacks!
- Merges and reviews as always.
Week of 06/17 (planned):
- Finalize #30382 from asn's review.
- Continue work on #15516. I'm hoping to drop the experimental results on
the ticket, finzlie the branch for upstream merge. And then move on to
prop305.
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