[tor-reports] Arturo's January 2014

[Arturo Filastò]

# What I did in January

* Fix bug that lead to stalling of certain HTTP requests towards certain
domains:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/pull/257
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/issues/94

* Implement script for harvesting the addresses of oonib test helpers
and collectors from the m-lab nodes:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/commit/dd591db19187fe2684e13ccb92fd6bd0435c08b0

* Automatically detect the default system resolver if no resolver is
specified to the dnsconsistency test:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/commit/05953ba5d3a1f69bd93875ef1e8482349dfaac0b

* Fix memory leak inside of oonib:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-backend/pull/29

* Attend a meeting in New York City with M-Lab, Georgia Tech,
Stonybrook, and Least Authority, where we identified the next steps in
order to get the OONI backend deployed on M-Lab. We discussed with Least
Authority what should be the scope of their audit and told them to also
give us pointers to which part of the code smells and areas of improvement.

* Created a debian package and debian repository for ooniprobe at
deb.ooni.nu.

* Wrote some notes on the release procedures for ooniprobe and updated
some of the test specifications:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/commit/14badf3e282144b8b1a2d201fce172a39ac2656c
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/commit/c8959c7e45514ec0b809e5dec74b74c1084c4bc5
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/commit/6fbb7f338bcdc317b649627a90066806373e8f16
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-spec/commit/3d83baa659c56835b27b132259606a56b021141c

* Migrated the torproject collector to the mlab test infrastructure to
facilitate the least authority audit for m-lab.

# What I plan to do in February

* Attend Tor developer meeting in Iceland

* Work on the project plan for the future of OONI

* Develop a set of tools for parsing and analyzing ooni-probe reports

~ Art.