[tor-project] Tor Browser Team Meeting Notes, 12 November 2019

[Matthew Finkel]

Hello!

Last Tuesday we held our weekly Tor Browser Team meeting (we rescheduled
it from Monday due to a bank holiday in the US).

Here are the meeting notes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting2/2019/tor-meeting2.2019-11-12-18.34.log.txt

Most the the meeting was spent discussing our triaging processes. We
also (temporarily) moved our meeting pad onto pad.riseup.net until nc
(nextcloud) is a viable alternative.

Weekly updates:

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Week of November 12, 2019

Discussion:
    What do we triage and how do we triage?
    Mailing list management
    What do we need to do to migrate this pad away from Storm? (mcs)
    
GeKo:
    Last week:
        -struggled with the alpha release
          -I tried my luck with a workaround for #32053 but that failed
        -Spent a lot of time on OTF proposal
        -Still looking into reproducibility issue (#32053) by currently
bisecting LLVM, but getting closer thanks to the help of Alex Crichton
and LLVM devs
        -backported fix for Mozilla's 1591259 (#31573)
        -reviews (#28803, #32303, #32413, #32220, #30683 (backport of
Mozilla's fix for 1581537), #30558, some pieces of #28745, #32365)
        -work on #31597 (still not finished)
        -I spent some of my spare time to start getting RLBox integrated
in our build process (#32379 is the parent ticket)
    This week:
        -Help with OTF proposal if needed
        -Hopefully having a working fix for #32053 up for review
        -reviews
        -#31597
        -make progress on remaining bits for #30429 and #31010
        -work on our signing infrastructure (#31161 for Android, #32173
for macOS)
        -start with Tor Browser design doc update (sysrqb: let me know
how you think we should work on that one together)
        -more RLBox work in spare time

mcs and brade:
    Last week:
        - Provided updated biographical info to Al for use in proposals.
        - Sponsor 27 work: #30237 (v3 onion services client auth).
            - Worked on loose ends including an improved error indicator
and localization support.
        - Spent a little time on #32394 (Update Progress Bar doesn't use
translations).
    This week/upcoming:
        - #30237 (v3 onion services client auth).
            - Tie up loose ends.
            - Post a patch for review (planned for today or tomorrow).
        - Think about permanent storage or client auth keys and
associated management UI.
            - Maybe this work can be done under #19757 (Make a menu to
add onion and auth-cookie to TB).
        - Respond in #32418 (up-to-date Torbrowser notifies that it
can't update).

pili:
    Last week:
        - Roadmapping
        - OTF Browser Proposal
    This week:
        - Looking at past team capacity to try to figure out some
patterns
        - S44 report

sysrqb:
    Last week:
        Releases
        (hopefully) resolved obfs4proxy issue on Android Q in 9.5a2
(#32303)
        Worked a little on OTF proposal
        Didn't follow up on #31915 upflift or fastlane
        Mostly reviewed #30501 revisions
        Investigated localization broken on Android (#32365)
    This week:
        Fastly event talking about Tor Browser
        Finish #32365
        Finish #30501 review
        Clean up android signing key documentation
        Catch up on Onion-Location status
        Follow up on uplift #31915
        AFK some of Wednesday and some of Thursday
        
boklm:
    Last week:
        - Helped with building/publishing releases, and followed
comments on blog posts
        - Some reviews
        - Made patch for #25099 (Update nightly version number)
        - Started looking at #25101 (Generate incremental mar files for
nightly builds)
    This week:
        - Will be afk tomorrow (Wednesday)
        - Work on #18867 (Ship auto-updates for Tor Browser nightly
channel) and sub-tickets
        - Test/review rebased patch for #30334 (build_go_lib for
executables)
        
Jeremy Rand
    Last week:
        - Cleaned up Electrum-NMC 3.3.8 Git history.
        - Tagged Electrum-NMC 3.3.8.
        - Submitted patch for #30558; ready for review.
        - Addressed Nick's latest feedback on #19859.
    This week:
        - Address whatever review happens on #30558 and #19859.

pospeselr:
    Last week:
        - finished up #32220 (letter boxing UX improvements)
        - #30570 investigation (per-site settings)
        
        

acat:
    Last week:
        - Investigated perf. issue with #23719 (Make sure WebExtensions
are spared from JIT ...)
        - Ported #30683 firefox patch (dom/locales/$lang/chrome/ allow
detecting user locale)
        - Worked on #21952 - Onion-location: increasing the use of onion
services through automatic redirects and aliasing
        - sent updated resume to Al for OTF proposal.
    This week:
        - Continue working on #21952.
        - Check #32255 (Missing ORIGIN header breaks CORS in Tor Browser
9.0) and take some action (not sure exactly which one)
        - Revise #28745: THE Torbutton clean-up
        - Follow up #32297 (try to reproduce with new info from
reporter)
        
sisbell:
    Last Week:
    - Put together package diagram of TOPL/tor-android-service classes
and how they are integrated. Defined integration areas we need to look
at with Orbot/Tor Browser. Sent email to guardian project to open
discussion.
    - #31130 - fixes for checksum and fixes for https-everywhere (in
review)
   -  #30501 - made changes to settings to handle sets of properties
like bridge lists, addresses rather than flat lines. Made changes to
tor-android-service to make it compile time compatible with TOPL
    This Week:
   - #30501/torrc changes... - more clearly specify ticket issues, will
have new review ready by end of day
  - Follow up with guardian project for plans moving forward

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- Matt