[tor-reports] OONI team progress report for February 2015

[Arturo Filastò]

# What we did in February

* Tag a release candidate for ooniprobe 1.2.3-rc1:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/releases/tag/v1.2.3-rc1

* Implement multiprocessing support in oonipipeline:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/64c6b1082cc304f264c7538b386f8c5cf53594fc

* Publish reports in gzipped format:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/197664fbe57d3d4b3293bde4b7f0c73bb191bd4f

* Re-run the sanitise task on the reports and fix bugs while doing so

* Setup the various cronjobs to automate gathering reports from
collectors and pushing the reports through the pipeline.

* Flatten pipeline DB structure of reports and measurements
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-pipeline/commit/3be900736472a15b33e67a7f4cba8d6e9912571e

* Discuss the roadmap for the future of OONI:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-February/000246.html

* Continue development of libight on iOS and Android

* Write up the methodology to be used for assessing internet censorship
in Iran.

* Progress on having obfs4 support in ooniprobe

* Setup a shell that allows people to access the mongodb database
directly and provide access to interested parties.

* Debug issues related to using lepidopter and vagrant:
https://github.com/anadahz/lepidopter/pull/3

* Disable the sys path hack in ooniprobe:
https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/commit/3bad9401e657507abea23bb4d650423bad3d3845

* Restore ooni-app in development mode on the pipeline server (this is
not yet officially public)

* Attend Open ITP Circumvention Summit

# Plans for March

* Work on analysing censorship circumvention tools to be tested inside
of Iran

* Work on proposal for end of 2015 - 2016

* Attend workshop on Ethics and Philosophy of Internet research in Oxford

* Work on organizing the OONI hackfest in Rome

* Merge obfs4 patch

* Work on making citizen-lab test-lists more of a community effort

* Finish the roadmap sketched out at the Tor developer meeting


~ Arturo