Debamitro Chakraborti:
Hi,
I am a C/C++ programmer wanting to dabble in the world of open source. I got to know of Tor and I felt the product is an important one for humanity. I have downloaded, built and run tor and also torsocks. Are there any coding tasks needed in tor at present? Do let me know.
Regards, Debamitro Chakraborti
Hi,
as non-Tor person I'd like to point you to:
https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Projects
which lists projects with their use case and what it's written in. Below this list there are some ideas of what could be done.
Getting an overview over the past: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#UpToSpeed
Design documents: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#DesignDoc
For developers: https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation.html.en#Developers
Papers about the research of anonymity: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html#Anonymous_20communication
List of papers sorted by date, some cover Tor directly: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/date.html
The Bug Tracker gives something to do on Tor [1], when looking for open tickets regarding Tor with the keyword "easy" and Vidalia [2] looking for all open tickets.
[1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...
[2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=as...
Actual developers and Tor officials have more insight on what's useful to read and what you could do.
Thank you for your interest in Tor.
Regards, Sebastian (bastik_tor)