# Arti Report 1: 23 June through July 7

We started with a project kickoff meeting. We're planning to continue meeting every 2 weeks, making our meetings increasingly public, and posting them on youtube.

We wrote up an announcement to explain what Arti is and why we're doing it. The [announcement](https://blog.torproject.org/announcing-arti) goes live on July 8; it's a good place to start if you're not already familiar with the project, or if you're looking for more helpful links.

To get ready for future development, and check the state of our packages we put out an [0.0.0 release](https://crates.io/crates/arti) and uploaded it to crates.io. We found a couple of issues while doing so ([#129][ticket-129], [#130][ticket-130]).

We want to switch as much new-feature development to Arti as we can. With that in mind, we're developing a set of guidelines for discouraging features in C -- especially features with the potential to destabilize our code. (See [#128][ticket-128].) We're trying a bottom-up approach here, starting by identifying what kinds of features we've done recently that maybe we should skip in the future.

We had an excellent meeting with developers on various Zcash projects, to gather requirements, set expectations, and open lines of communication. Based on their suggestions, we opened a set of new tickets to work on. ([#132][ticket-132] [#133][ticket-133] [#134][ticket-134] [#135][ticket-135] [#136][ticket-136] [#137][ticket-137] [#138][ticket-138] [#139][ticket-139] [#140][ticket-140])

In terms of new code written, things have been a bit slow: we're still ramping up, and a lot of folks take vacations in the summer. We [revised our asynchronous runtime backend][ticket-129] based on issues we found while uploading our packages. More recently, I've started working on an [implementation][ticket-57] of Tor's [circuit timeout inference][cti] code, which is necessary for good performance and security.

## Next steps

In our next couple of weeks, I hope we get a first cut at our circuit timeout code finished and working, and figure out a reasonable initial solution for our [persistence needs][ticket-59]. We'll also be ramping up on implementations for [guard nodes][ticket-58] and [stream isolation][ticket-73], both of which are necessary for security.

[ticket-57]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/57 [ticket-58]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/58 [ticket-59]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/59 [ticket-73]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/73 [ticket-128]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/128 [ticket-129]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/129 [ticket-130]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/130 [ticket-132]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/132 [ticket-133]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/133 [ticket-134]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/134 [ticket-135]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/135 [ticket-136]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/136 [ticket-137]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/137 [ticket-138]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/138 [ticket-139]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/139 [ticket-140]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/140 [cti]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/master/path-spec.txt#L...