[tor-project] Tor browser meeting notes, 29 June 2020

Gaba gaba at torproject.org
Mon Jun 29 19:06:30 UTC 2020


Hi!

Tor Browser meetings are happening every Monday at 1800UTC on
#tor-meeting in irc.oftc.net

We had a meeting on June 29th and here are the logs and notes.

Log:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-06-29-18.01.log.html

Pad:
http://kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r34ya464gqz6c44bnyd.onion/p/tor-tbb-2020-keep


Contents of the pad for today:

== Tor Browser meeting pad! ==

Next meeting is at Monday 6th July 1800 UTC on #tor-meeting on OFTC.

July Schedule:
    * Monday 29 June 18:00 UTC
    * Monday 6  July 18:00 UTC

Release meetings: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-browser-release-meeting-keep

    Tuesday July 7th 18:00 UTC


(This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) (See
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.html
for background.)

Upcoming Releases and other important dates

    2020.06.30: 9.5.1 and 10.0a2 - ESR68.10, ESR78.0


Latest Releases:

    2020.05.22: 9.5a13
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95a13

    2020.06.02: 9.5 Stable
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-95

    2020.06.02: 10.0a1
https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-100a1


== Previous notes ==
(Search the tor-project mailing list archive for older notes.)
June 15th -
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-June/002878.html
June 22nd -
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-June/002891.html

== What project we are working on? ==

SPONSOR 58 - Tor Browser Security, Performance, & Usability Improvements

    Milestone: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/11

    Parent ticket:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/33664

    Timeline:  https://nc.torproject.net/s/ow2r6cLgL7Cd9BA


== Stuff to do every week ==

    Kanban https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/boards

    Check reviews not taken! How reviews from last week worked? Any
blocker?


https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/applications/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Needs%20Review&assignee_id=None&label_name[]=Sponsor%2058

    Next release: anybody need help with anything?


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== Announcements [please date] ==


== Discussion [please date] ==

    [June 29th] Please review
http://kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r34ya464gqz6c44bnyd.onion/p/58-report-june
. Bekeela will be sending it today.

    [June 29th] dev.tpo needs Application Team review >
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/trac/-/issues/24132


== Status Updates ==

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.



ahf:
    Week of 22/6 planned:
        - Trying to minimize myself in the Gitlab stuff for now.
        - Need to deal with review backlog.
        - Back to doing Fenix + Tor integration.
        - Get Tor network extension working on device with TGP sponsorship.
    Week of 22/6 actually:
        - Got help from Benjamin with certificates and all the Apple
"security" stuff with running your own apps on your own devices...
        - Failed at completely detaching myself from Gitlab things:
worked on a few minor issues and the label clean-up.
        - Tried to push for some sponsorship for CI for our Gitlab instance.
        - Read Mike's congestion pads/mails.
        - Got back to Fenix+Tor integration.
    Week of 29/6 planned:
        - Delete unused labels from Gitlab.
        - Try to solve Gitlab#41 with Hiro since it makes working with
GL a bit more frustrating with our git.tpo/gitlab.tpo hybrid setup.
        - Do merging/backporting of Tor things.

boklm:
    Week of 2020-06-15 (actual):
        - Made patches to use rootless containers and was able to do
builds of Tor Browser for windows-x86_64 and osx-x86_64
(tor-browser-build#23631 and rbm#40001). For some unknown reason the
builds based on wheezy are not working.
    Week of 2020-06-22 (planned):
        - Add some documentation for rbm#40001 and set the patch as
Needs Review
        - Improve patch for rbm#32272 to handle Ctrl+C

Mike:
    Week of 06/22 (planned):
        - Wrap up congestion control proposal draft
        - gecko-dev proxy audit
    Week of 06/22 (actual):
        - Funding proposal work
        - Congestion control work for funding proposal notes
        - Gitlab label cleanup
    Week of 06/29 (planned):
        - Performance funding proposal pre-meeting + funder meeting
        - gecko-dev proxy audit

mcs and brade:
    Week of June 22nd (actual):
        - Rebased & landed “update downloading” patch (upstreaming
tor-browser#28885).
            - See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642404
        - Investigated intermittent test failure for other part of
tor-browser#28885.
            - See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647313
            - So far we have not reproduced the failure.
        - tor-browser#33534: Finished reviewing Firefox 75-78beta
release/dev notes.
    Week of June 29th (planned):
        - tor-browser#33534: Review closed bugs for Firefox 75-78.
        - More work on the intermittent test failure bug (Bugzilla 1647313).
        - tor-browser#33852 (Clean up about:logins (LockWise) to avoid
mentioning sync, etc.)

sysrqb:
    Week of 15 June (planned):
        Really, really finish #33939
        Review testsuite patches and merge them so we have a
working...testsuite
        Catch up on current 9.5/10.0a tickets
        Finally land vpx patch upstream
        Review
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/40004
        Continue tracking OTF/DRL situation
        Audit GitLab labels
        Release prep
    Week of 15 June (actual):
        Really, really finish #33939 (no)
        Review testsuite patches and merge them so we have a
working...testsuite (handed off to GeKo)
        Catch up on current 9.5/10.0a tickets (no)
        Finally land vpx patch upstream (small progress)
        Review
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/40004 (no)
        Continue tracking OTF/DRL situation (spent some time)
        Audit GitLab labels (complete)
        Release prep (complete)
    Week of 22 June (planned):
        #33939
        Unblock any other Fenix work
        9.5.1/10.0a2 releases
        cpu_features patch uplift

GeKo:

    Week of June 22 (planned):

    Gitlab work

    Finish review of #33533

    Finish application-services build

    Week of June 22 (actual):

    Gitlab work

    Finish Review of #33533

    Work on application-services build

    Week of 29 June:

    Finish build of application services

    help with releases were fit

    Reviews (dev.tpo, O3.2 design for S30, #27105, #30832)


Antonela:
Week of 22 June (planned):

    - Review HTTPS-E Names


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40010#note_2677262

    - Work on S58 tickets TBA UI

    - Waiting for tbb-dev review in S30

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/40004

Week of 22 June (actual):

    - Nothing of that

 Week of 29 June:

    - Review HTTPS-E Names


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40010#note_2677262

    - Work on S58 tickets TBA UI

    - Waiting for tbb-dev review in S30

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/40004


acat:
    Week of 22nd June (planned):
        Possibly address GeKo's feedback on #33533
        Add tests in tor-browser-bundle-testsuite:
            40001: Add test for "Communicating security expectations TB
patch"
            40002: Add test for "Add v3 onion services client
authentication prompt" TB patch
            40003: Add test for "Implement Onion-Location" TB patch
            40004: Add test for "Implement .onion alias urlbar rewrites"
TB patch
            40005: Add test for "Replace security slider with security
level UI" TB patch
        Rebase #33533 to latest beta and test tor-browser-spec#40001 process
    Week of 22nd June (actual):
        - Add tests in tor-browser-bundle-testsuite (will push MR after
meeting):
            - 40001: Add test for "Communicating security expectations
TB patch"
            - 40003: Add test for "Implement Onion-Location" TB patch
            - 40004: Add test for "Implement .onion alias urlbar
rewrites" TB patch
            - 40005: Add test for "Replace security slider with security
level UI" TB patch
    Week of 29th June:
        - Finish tor-browser-bundle-testsuite at 40002: Add test for "Add
v3 onion services client authentication prompt" TB patch
        - Revise & Rebase #33533 to latest beta and test
tor-browser-spec#40001 process
        - Revise tor-browser-spec at 40001: Add rebasing process document
        - Maybe iterate on tor-browser at 33791: Evaluate Firefox tests

            - I was thinking of finding the subset of FF tests that pass
and put it in some list/script so that we can run/keep track of it.+1
(+1, yes, please)


Jeremy Rand:
    Week of 15 and 22 June (actual):
        Ask for feedback on latest Namecoin patches to Tor Browser on
Reddit.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Namecoin/comments/hbf9fq/we_need_more_testers_for_the_namecoin_tor_browser/
        Got some decent feedback.  At this point it looks like the
primary request from testers is adding macOS and Windows support.
        Upstream Electrum released a couple of betas of Electrum 4.0.0.
 Started looking at rebasing Namecoin's patches to 4.0.0 (most are
rebased continuously, but a few only get rebased for releases.)
        Dealing with various funding-related things e.g. NLnet proposal.
        Discussed having Namecoin issue a statement about the OTF situation.
        Tried to activate my GitLab account, failed.
    Week of 29 June (planned):
        Look more seriously at what's needed to port the Namecoin
support to macOS/Windows.
        Keep working on rebasing Namecoin's patches to Electrum 4.0.0.
        Continue working on upstreaming Namecoin's Electrum patches.
        Continue talking to NLnet about funding things.
        Issue a formal statement from Namecoin about the OTF situation
(hopefully it helps).
        Hopefully get my GitLab account sorted out.







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