[tor-project] Network team meeting notes from 18 March 2019
Nick Mathewson
nickm at torproject.org
Tue Mar 19 16:15:07 UTC 2019
Hi!
Our logs are at
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-03-18-17.00.html
Our meeting notes are below:
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= Network team meeting pad! =
This week's team meeting is at Monday 18 March at 1700 UTC on
#tor-meeting on OFTC.
Welcome to our meeting!
First meeting each month: Tuesday 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.
March schedule:
* Tuesday 5 March at 2300 UTC
* Monday 11 March at 1700 UTC
* Monday 18 March at 1700 UTC
* Monday 25 March at 1700 UTC
April schedule notes:
* Monday 22 April is an Easter public holiday
May schedule notes:
* teor will be on leave at the start of May
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for background.)
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== Previous notes ==
(Search the list archive for older notes.)
19 Feb: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-February/002225.html
25 Feb: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-March/002236.html
5 Mar: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-March/002244.html
11 Mar: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-March/002252.html
== Stuff to do every week =
* 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
<-- filter by your name and check the 'in progress' column is correct.
* Check reviewer assignments!
Here are the needs-review tickets, by reviewer:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&reviewer=!&max=300&col=id&col=summary&col=reviewer&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component&order=reviewer&report=82
Here are the outstanding reviews, oldest first:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component=Core+Tor%2FTor&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=changetime&col=reviewer&col=keywords&order=changetime
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
* Also, let's check for things we need update on our spreadsheet! Are
there important documents we should link to? Things we should
archive?
* Check rotations at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/TeamRotations
Core Tor/sbws is now part of the bug triage, CI, and reviewer assignment roles
== 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.
* Add planned PTO to the calendar
https://storm.torproject.org/shared/ISA5L5nH0Xu88iqSCx9ZjCXYSMKOBTdbUeWarbdGmxx
* Check other's people call for help in their entries.
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---- 18 March 2019
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== Announcements ==
- The master branch is now 0.4.1.x; 0.4.0 development will continue in
maint-0.4.0.
- No more backports to 0.3.3; support ended a few weeks ago!
- if you're a maintainer, please update your git scripts from the
tor repository!
- US DST began last Sunday; let's be careful for schedules next week
[catalyst: are we going to follow US DST for the Monday meetings as we
have before?] yes -- previously decided that Monday meetings move with
US DST; see
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam
We need to prioritize sbws's reviews this month as Juga is wrapping up
their work in March.
== Discussion ==
=== Fixing IPv6-only network failures ===
Tor Browser is going to test the new ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option in
Tor Browser Alpha.
(Geko says, "looking at teor's comment in #29641 it seems we need
#27647 fixed first?")
teor says, Tor Browser should test in an alpha as soon as possible, so
we know if we need to do #27647
I added a comment on the ticket:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29641#comment:7
(I sometimes miss pad and IRC comments, tickets are much better.)
== Recommended links ==
"Tech companies could change these things to make your life easier and
protect your digital security and privacy.
Why haven’t they yet?"
https://fixitalready.eff.org/
On gitlab release management (they have a role that rotates)
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/docs/blob/master/general/monthly.md
For next week:
On gitlab time-based releases, and why developers and users like them:
https://about.gitlab.com/2015/12/07/why-we-shift-objectives-and-not-release-dates-at-gitlab/
== 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:
Week of 03/04 (actual):
- processes https://gitlab.com/gabelula/tor-documentation-processes
Week of 03/11 (planned):
- tor scaling meeting
- roadmap checking before leaving
- traveling on the 14th
teor: (offline except for the first meeting each month)
Week of 11 Mar (planned):
Bug triage rotation
- Write nice page with queries for bug triage rotation, like
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/user/teor
Roadmap Coding (3 days per week):
- CI with Chutney/Tor: #29729, #27912, #29280
- Backport merges for CI with Chutney/Tor
- Bandwidth stats for PrivCount: #29019, #17036, #29005
- Rearrange the commits in a nice order on a bunch of new branches
Roadmap Reviews:
- Review nickm's parts of the CI with Chutney/Tor tickets
- Other assigned reviews
Other:
- After chutney CI merges, do other stable maintainer triage and merges
- Leave admin
- If I have any time left over, review admin backlog, and plan
other admin
Week of 11 Mar (actual):
Bug triage rotation
- Triaged a whole bunch of backports that were in the wrong milestone
- Tried to keep up with the bugs in #tor-bots: I was busy, I
might have missed something
Roadmap Coding (3 days per week):
- CI with Chutney/Tor: #29729, #27912, #29280, #22132
Roadmap Reviews:
- Review nickm's parts of the CI with Chutney/Tor tickets
- Other assigned reviews: I have one review to catch up on
next week - I need to write extra tests for it.
- Picked up some sbws reviews
- Tried to help with sbws #28563
- Logged a bunch of bugs that are causing CI failures
- Proposal reviews: prop#199 / #29801
Other:
- Mainline merges
- Merged most of the backport backlog, there is one merge
remaining for next week
(All the other backports need another alpha before they can merge)
Week of 18 Mar (planned):
Roadmap Coding (3 days per week):
- CI with Chutney/Tor: #29729, #29761
- Backport fixes needed for CI with Chutney/Tor to Tor 0.2.9
- Bandwidth stats for PrivCount: #29019, #17036, #29005
- Rearrange the commits in a nice order on a bunch of new branches
Roadmap Reviews:
- Review nickm's parts of the CI with Chutney/Tor tickets
- sbws reviews
Other:
- Other assigned reviews
- Do mainline merges, and the remaining backport merges from last week
- Do remaining reviews from last week
- Leave admin
- Add a travis test for stem (it's a copy of the chutney test,
but using the stem command)
Week of 18 Mar (actual):
Roadmap Coding (3 days per week):
- CI with Chutney/Tor: #22132, #28203, #29729 and children if needed
Roadmap Reviews:
- test proposed sbws design, suggest a new design, do sbws reviews
Other:
- review and design work on prop#199 - automatic IPv6
connection improvements
- review #29036, #29434, #29073
- try to explain #29500 better
- Leave admin
- Work out how Tor's new feedback process works
- Work out the new travel rules
- other emails
- triage and merge backports
- ticket herding
- assign 040-must tickets to people
Help with:
- If someone would like to work through the PrivCount changes
with me, that
would be really helpful. Otherwise I will defer them until
after the Chutney/Tor CI.
Blocked:
Dev work and merges are slow due to lots of CI failures:
- Intermittent CI failures: Fixes needed: #29500 (circuit padding time)
#29693 (circuit
padding stochastic)
#29437 (test-stem)
Nick:
Week of 11 March (planned):
- Next steps on CI: get travis support running on chutney, and chutney
in tor's travis. [Pending Teor's revisions on #27912]
- Next steps on pubsub (per catalyst's review)
- Work on #29357 (ActiveOnStartup option for TB) as an 040-must item
- Update my rup.py example code for the latest prop295
- Sponsor 31 meeting
- Scaling meeting
- Possibly, kick off work on some more of my sponsor 19 and 31 stuff.
- 29223 standardized abbrevs?
- 29269 bridge stats?
Week of 11 March (actual):
- Revised travis+chutney branches
- Revised pubsub branch
- Implemented #29357 (activeonstartup)
- Meetings (various)
- Review and merge (lots)
- Slides for libreplanet
Week of 18 March (planned):
- Prepare for libreplanet on saturday
- Reviews and merging.
- Work on several 040-must items.
- Testing PRNG determinism code (29732)
- Possibly, kick off work on some more of my sponsor 19 and 31 stuff.
- 29223 standardized abbrevs?
- 29269 bridge stats?
- Time permitting, adl/rup revisions
- If catalyst is available, initial design chat on config.c refactor.
- Review a paper for PETS
- Get ready for an 0.4.0.3-alpha around the end of the week.
Help with:
- Please have a look at the tickets labeled 040-must. Are you the
very best person to do one, or to explain why it is not a "must"?
dgoulet (missing meeting):
- AFK.
Mike:
Week of 3/11 (planned)
- Vanguards workarounds for onion service bugs
- Tor scalability
- #28686 (Nick's stray review comments for wtfpad)
- #28780 - flag for keeping circuit open (asn: are we sure this is
actually needed?)
Week of 3/11 (actual):
- Sick + errands piled up from recovery
- Lots of Tor scalability discussion & thought
- Little bit of work on vanguards workarounds
Week of 3/18 (planned):
- Scalability planning & discussion
- Catch up with asn's wtf-pad work, finalize plan for keeping
circuits open (#28780)
- Taking friday off
catalyst:
week of 03/11 (2019-W11) (planned):
- reviews
- write up architectural comments on pubsub
- work with nickm on pubsub revisions
- work some more on #28925 (distinguish proxy vs PT in
bootstrap) based on previous work hooking up pubsub to bootstrap
week of 03/11 (2019-W11) (actual):
- reviews
- asked for feedback from tbb-team on #28925 (distinguish
proxy vs PT in bootstrap)
- more pubsub improvements
- figured out a way to unit-test pubsub-using code (maybe not optimal)
- some annoyances related to practracker.py
week of 03/18 (2019-W12) (planned):
- try prototyping #28925 solution using pubsub but in a way
not too difficult to back port to 0.4.0
- CI+Coverity rotation
- reviews
- checking for any remaining loose ends in pubsub review
juga:
Week 11 March (planned)
- New patch release with #29707 fix (and new unofficial debian package)
- Work on or merge Stop the integration tests http server when the
tests end (#28774)
- Work on or merge Create an script to automate releases (#29294)
- Continue with Work out how sbws can report excluded relays in
the bandwidth file (#28563)
- When sbws stops making progress, log a warning (#28652)
- Work out how long it takes sbws to measure the network (#28983)
Week 11 March (actual)
- Continue with Work out how sbws can report excluded relays in
the bandwidth file (#28563)
- When sbws stops making progress, log a warning (#28652)
- Work out how long it takes sbws to measure the network (#28983)
- Closed tickets that doesn't apply anymore and change some
tickets' milestones
- Recover a destination when it stops failing (#29589)
- Document that authorities are not measured by default (#29722)
Week 18 March (plan)
- Continue with Work out how sbws can report excluded relays in
the bandwidth file (#28563)
- Work on Ignore bandwidth file lines with "vote=0" (#29806)
- Create a blog post about work done and future work (#29724)
- Continue with DirAuths should expose bwauth bandwidth files (#21377)
asn:
Week of 03/11 (planned):
- Do revisions for #29221, #29298.
- Continue work on #29298.
- Do pending merges/reviews.
- Check updates on #5708.
- Check new HSv3 bugs that dgoulet opened (#29665, #29669).
Week of 03/11 (actual):
- Got #29298 and #29221 revised and merged.
- More revisions for #28636
- Did merges/reviews. Got #29665 merged.
- CI role. Fixed #29792, #29527, #29747.
- Started work on #28634. Made some draft padding machines for hiding RP
circuits. Also written a log-scraping program that analyzes HS circuits.
More work needed. Will be working on this for the rest of the month.
Week of 03/18 (planned):
- Continue work on #28634.
- Do merges/reviews.
- Get #28636 finalized.
- Fix prob_distr coverity issues.
Help with:
- Mike can you check that my rationale in
https://github.com/torproject/tor/pull/788#discussion_r266450359 is
correct?
ahf:
Week of 3/11 (planned):
Sponsor 19:
- Continue with #29207/#29206 with Cohosh.
- Document protocol changes for #29207/#29206
Week of 3/11 (actually):
Sponsor 19:
- Talk about GeoIP interface with cohosh
- Early review of #29734
- Added branch for listening on WebSockets in the Broker,
now working on JSON
message layer (#2907/#29206):
- Started looking into WebSocket layer between Broker
and Proxy (#29736).
- Trying to wrap my head around an issue that I thought
was related to the
token bucket handling between WebRTC/WebSocket, but was
a local network
issue.
Misc:
- Created PR for #29036.
- Closed #29737.
Week of 3/18 (planned):
Sponsor 19:
- Second review of #29734.
- Continue with #29207.
Misc:
- Network team bug triage.
- Get Gitlab to run :-S
- Talk with Erin, Cohosh, and Gaba about what we do with
performance review for anti-censorship team.
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