[tor-reports] October

[Aaron]

In October I:

Started working on a bridge deployment tool (#7207). (~20pts)

Hacked on #5482 (Annotate and sort the social-network bridge pools by
stability). "A Simple Matter of Programming" was reduced to "A Simple
Matter of Debugging" (~20 pts)

Gave a talk at hack.lu with Arturo; we spoke about how Tor works,
including some of the less well-known parts (such as torflow),
censorship & censorship detection, metrics, and more. We stopped by
the hackerspace syn2cat, had many excellent conversations, and had an
epic time.

Spent some time testing Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha (#7267) (~3 pts)

Helped asn with reachability testing obfsbridges and emailed the
operators of unreachable obfsproxy ports. Unfortunately the only
response was from a bridge operator whose email got snagged by
overzealous grep. He is however, now running a working obfsbridge :-)
(~2 pts)

Started working on a design for adding email subscription support to
BridgeDB. (#1610) (~5 pts)

In November I:

Close #5482

Continue to help with testing Tor

Add obfsproxy & pluggable transport support to BridgeHerder (#7207)
and release a functional beta.

Implement email subscriptions in BridgeDB

--Aaron