[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 12 Sep 2019
Philipp Winter
phw at torproject.org
Thu Sep 12 17:44:35 UTC 2019
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-09-12-17.01.html
And here is our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday September 12th 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
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== Announcements ==
*
== Discussion ==
* Any services left that aren't monitored or restarted on crash/reboot?
* Set up systemd user script for GetTor (based on <https://help.torproject.org/tsa/doc/services/>)
== Actions ==
*
== Interesting links ==
* https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/
* Google's guide on how to do code reviews. Worth a skim. My personal take-aways:
* Make sure that patches improve the health of the existing code. They won't be perfect.
* "One business day is the maximum time it should take to respond to a code review request (i.e. first thing the next morning)"
* However, never interrupt your focused work to do a code review.
== 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: (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 (2019-09-12):
* Compiled set of private bridges (and distribution instructions) for NGO
* Set up private monit instance to monitor these bridges from my laptop
* https://mmonit.com/monit/ (the tool is really neat!)
* Updated our obfs4 docker image to use Debian buster
* Worked with new obfs4 bridge operators, many of which had troubles setting it up
* Most had obsolete Tor versions; one from Ubuntu 12.04 (!)
* RACECAR meeting about obfs4 improvements
* Experimenting with libFTE to look like "a protocol with structure"
* Many research questions remain
* Experimenting with an "entropy reducer" that can survive high-entropy filters
* More work remains to be done for flow obfuscator
* Reviewed GetTor website changes
* Wrote systemd user script to automatically resurrect GetTor when it crashes
* Merged #28533 and released BridgeDB 0.8.1 (contains two usability fixes)
* Reviewed revisions for #31407
* Decided to rsync BridgeDB metrics to CollecTor instead of exposing them over web server (#19332)
Next week:
* BridgeDB fixes
* E.g., ridiculously outdated requirements.txt
* Make progress with obfs4 improvements
* Figure out how to reduce per-packet entropy
Help with:
* https://bugs.torproject.org/19332#comment:20
* https://bugs.torproject.org/31692
Gaba: (updated September 12th)
Last week ():
* grant writing 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 2019-09-12
Last week (holiday on Monday):
- reviews (gettor and bridgedb)
- looked into #31425 a bit more
- grant writing meeting
- worked a bit on #29207
- upstream patch for pion/webrtc
This week:
- make a patch for the proxy---broker communication (#29207)
- wrap up pion/webrtc changes and windows build ( #28942 and #25483)
- snowflake dogfood
- continue work on sequencing layer (#29206)?
- revisit snowflake reachability scripts, check status of tests, and enhance (#30368)
- review of gettor metrics work (https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/issues/10)
- review #19332 and #31692
Help with:
- review of progress on sequencing layer (#29206)
catalyst:
week of 09/05 (actual):
- reviews
- sponsor31 reporting and planning
week of 09/12 (planned):
- reviews
- sponsor31 reporting and planning
- sponsor31 architecture documentation etc
- gitlab migration planning
- coding style discussion
arlolra: 2019-08-29
Last week:
- merged #30310
- helped with some review
Next week:
- add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake
- make an attempt at #31391
Help with:
-
dcf: 2019-09-12
Last week:
- started review of sequencing layer (#29206)
- raised the file descriptor limit in the broker (#31425)
Next week:
- review Snowflake sequencing layer (#29206)
- archive test pion builds from #28942
- Turbo Tunnel prototyping
Help with:
- redeploy meek-azure bridge for Go net/http DoS vulnerability (#31455)
- needs attention from inf0 at Team Cymru (dcf and phw have sent email)
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