[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 10 Oct 2019
Philipp Winter
phw at torproject.org
Thu Oct 10 20:06:17 UTC 2019
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-10-10-16.59.html
And here is our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday October 10th 17:00 UTC
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 17:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress).
== Goal of this meeting ==
Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.
== Links to Useful documents ==
* Our anti-censorship roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards
* Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets.
* The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam
* GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor/boards
* Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component=%5eCircumvention&col=id&col=summary&col=component&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=reviewer&order=priority
* Projects from sponsors we are working on:
* https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30
* https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28
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== Announcements ==
* A volunteer set up 20 fast and private obfs4 bridges. We will hand them out to NGOs, for distribution among their users.
* Let's continue last week's discussion on website mirrors in <https://bugs.torproject.org/31990>.
* Our "set up new bridges" campaign is over. See #30777 for a summary.
== Discussion ==
* Frontdesk - users from censored countries are asking private bridges. How do we handle it to them? - gus
* Website: Isa asked if we could add gettor link if someone search Tor Project in Google. - gus
== Actions ==
*
== Interesting links ==
*
== Updates ==
FORMAT!
Name:
This week:
- What you worked on this week.
Next week:
- What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work).
Help with:
- Something you may need help with.
Hiro:
Gettor moved off moly and to new VM. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31785
- Gettor only uses debian packages included in puppet and doesn't use virtualenv
- Gettor is deployed via ansible
- Gettor website is maintained via Lektor and deployed via Jenkins
Nagios checks are working
Started review and string translation: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/issues/2
Restore Twitter responder: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/issues/5
- https://dip.torproject.org/hiro/gettor/merge_requests/3/diffs
Fixed metadata of files on archive.org
Next Week:
- Work on gettor specs
- More with review of strings and website content and translation
hiro: (2019-09-09)(gettor days are Thursday - snippets https://dip.torproject.org/snippets)
- gettor was down due to a VM reboot. Phw added a systemd script to reboot the service.
- add archive.org
- add gdrive
- edit ansible scripts
- edit scripts to upload files to various distribution endpoints
Next week
- reach out to irl about sending gettor stats to metrics
- include reviews from code and website changes
- review specs: are specs up-to-date? should we change something in the specs?
- review docs: write documentation for web site and ansible playbooks.
Help with:
- probably more reviews.
hiro: (2019-09-02)(gettor days are Thursday - snippets https://dip.torproject.org/snippets)
- Coded ansible recipes for gettor so that the service can be easily maintained by more people: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor-ansible
- Fixing some issues about git history taking too much space quota on gitlab and github
Next week
- use archive.org as new distribution endpoint: upload files to archive.org
- reach out to irl about sending gettor stats to metrics
- review specs: are specs up-to-date? should we change something in the specs?
- review docs: write documentation for web site and ansible playbooks.
Help with:
- waiting to be told that's fine to upload files to archive.org? Can we start?
- review new website. New website should be reviewed. https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor-web
phw:
This week (2019-10-03):
* Wrote up anti-censorship research ideas and created patch for research.tp.o (#32007).
* Created ticket to continue our discussion on mirrors (#31990).
* Merged BridgeDB spec (#31780), translation request (#31903), and updated BridgeDB's requirements (#29484).
* Released BridgeDB v0.8.3.
* Attended Sponsor30 meeting.
* Re-deployed meek-server on polyanthum (#31890).
* Wrapped up our bridge setup campaign (#30777).
* Tried to get a better grasp of how BridgeDB/babel/Transifex interact.
* More polishing of obfs4 flow obfuscator prototype.
* Reading up on the state of CAPTCHAs and if there's any hope (there isn't).
* Sat in on RACE meeting to understand progress on obfs4 evaluation.
Next week:
* Wrapping up flow obfuscator prototype
* Merge BridgeDB's language switcher
Help with:
*
Gaba: (updated October 10th)
Last week ():
* sponsor 30 meeting
This week (planned):
*
ahf
Last week:
- Worked on #28930
This week:
- Finished refactoring parts of #28930. Trying to figure out if we should begin the discussion on how PT's can report back on bootstrap info.
- Continued to work on a tool to convert Trac tickets into Gitlab tickets.
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-10-10
Last week:
- make a patch for the proxy---broker communication (#29207)
- implemented localization of snowflake website (#31384)
- finished reviewing and merged linting fixes (#31794)
- merged snowflake pion branch to master (#28942)
- added an automatic packaging script for the webext (#31253)
- worked on refactoring tests for #29259
- created ticket for tbb update to go1.13
This week:
- more and better tests for #29206 (also related to #29259)
- snowflake dogfood and think about how to address bad snowflake health
- refactor proxy-pair state machine (#31310)
- work on #29207 and #29206
- update webextension version and deploy new versions of snowflake broker and proxies (#31889)
- more clearing out backlog
- grant writing
Help with:
- review of #29207 and #29206 (dcf)
- review of #31384 (phw or arlo)
- review of #31253 (phw or arlo)
catalyst:
week of 09/19 (planned):
- reviews
- sponsor31 planning
- coding style discussion
- comment on draft network team review guidelines
- #30984
week of 09/19 (actual):
- reviews
- sponsor31 planning
- talking with people about proposed network team review processes
week of 09/26 (planned):
- reviews
- sponsor31 doc coordination
- checking in on Season of Docs work
- #30984
arlolra: 2019-09-26
Last week:
- mia
Next week:
- add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake
- pick up another ticket (looking at #31497, #31685, #31537, #31765, #31028, #31310)
Help with:
- review of #31391
dcf: 2019-10-10
Last week:
- reviewed pion webrtc branch (#28942)
- prototyping KCP and QUIC in obfs4proxy
- made a post about recent Shadowsocks blocking https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/16
Next week:
- prototyping KCP and QUIC in obfs4proxy
- review #29206 (sequencing protocol for Snowflake)
- review #29207 (broker protocol for Snowflake)
- redeploy meek-server instances (#31890)
- archive test pion builds from #28942
- migrate Snowflake broker to a datacenter with IPv6 (#29258)
Help with:
- need meek-azure to redeploy meek-server for #31890
- need to redeploy Snowflake broker and bridge for #31889
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