tor-project November 2019

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Notes from Vegas Meeting NOVEMBER 14 2019
by Erin Wyatt 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Vegas Team Meeting Notes NOVEMBER 14 2019 NEW BUSINESS - The network team uses "network-team" as a way to highlight us all on IRC. Do other teams have official things like that? Do they want one? [nickm] * Resolution: every team should pick up a string like this and set it up to highlight for themselves. Any team that doesn't want to, doesn't have to. Let people know what string you've picked; The Tor Browser team has "tbb-team”. - Announcement in case any of you want to apply or you want to bring it to the teams. From MOSS program managers: "Finally, a friend and colleague of MOSS, Kara de la Marck, is launching a peer mentorship program for open source maintainers in early 2020. It will be a six-week program that covers topics like sustainability, governance and diversity and inclusion. To learn more about the program or to sign up to become a participant or mentor, please visit https://posse.community." [gaba] - Getting started on the new email service project, review the "Goals" section here: https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/submission/ [anarcat] * Discussion: friendly reminder that vegas team ppl agreed to help with documentation and support for email service; need someone to help design a handbook to answer the "so how do i configure my email client to use that thing anyways?”; anarcat will put help needed on a pad when he’s ready; people who are losing their tor project email should file trac tickets. - How are we coordinating the invitation process to our dev meeting for, say, tor core members and external stakeholders (if we wanted to save money we should get to it as fast as possible) [GeKo] * Answer: we will start this process when Isa gets back; we will also discuss if/how many open days we’ll have. GENERAL NOTES + Philipp • Philipp and Roger attended OTF summit in Taiwan • Cecylia and Roger attended RACE PI meeting in San Jose • Reached out to more people for private obfs4 bridge distribution • GetTor, BridgeDB, and Snowflake maintenance + Gaba • Starting S31 report • Nextcloud migration • Roadmaps • Trac up to date • Grants proposals • Will give a talk at SeaGL tomorrow. + Nick • The network team uses "network-team" as a way to highlight us all on IRC. Do other teams have official things like that? Do they want one? • New RC coming out in next few days; stable backport releases aimed for early December when we are less hosed. • Wrapping up sponsor 31. Lots to do there. + Sarah • Campaign continues to do well. We've raised $20K more than we raised last year at this point, even though we started the campaign 5 days earlier in 2018. + Steph • EOY Campaign, running promotions, wrote a blog post on surveillance • Rating outreachy applicants and making a decision. We had 16 applicants for the communications spot. • Talking to Alison about LFI comms plans • Will be applying for the OTF Learning Lab -- will talk over at grants meeting next week + Anarcat • getting started on the new email service project, review the "Goals" section here: https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/submission/ [anarcat] • new caching service tweaks, now 88% hit ratio, will hopefully go down to 300$/mth costs in november! shiny graphs at https://grafana.torproject.org/d/p21-cvJWk/cache-health • dealt with an unusual amount of email • cymru might get unstuck, stay tuned • updated my harvest timesheets, i had forgotten for two months (!) • held a sysadmin meeting last month which has my last month/next month tasks https://help.torproject.org/tsa/meeting/2019-11-04/ + Alex: • Went to Freedom not Fear together with Gus. Met a lot of European internet activists and learned a bit there. • Catching up on my backlog with all the CVs for the Shadow Developer hire. • Network team retrospective went well. The team seems to be doing well. • Starting to think a bit about our roadmapping in December. + Gus • Went to Freedom not Fear with Alex. We joined three Tor activities (Tor Meetup, Onion Services and Censorship circumvention). I suggest to our european friends to add this event to their annual agenda. • Organizing Tor activities with our italian friends: • https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-workshop-strike-spa-roma • https://blog.torproject.org/events/non-e-la-silicon-valley-ma-si-mangia-meg… • Reviewing Outreachies final application. • Finish to update Tor training slides with the latest TB release and sending to our training partners in Global South. • Doing other communities things • Syncing with Pili about Sponsor9 phase 2 report. + Pili • S9 Phase 2 report • S44 report • Doing a bit of trac triaging for browser team • S27 meeting • Tor Browser release meeting + Erin • Shadow dev screening • Misc. HR/org ops stuff • Gaba coming to Seattle! We plan to livestream her State of the Onion talk at SeaGL on Instagram. Kinda late for most people - 16:15 PDT (00:15 UTC), but hopefully we can save/share the vid. + Karsten • Put out several releases as part of extending CollecTor's index.json to contain descriptor types and publication times as well as SHA-256 file digests. • Rewrote exit scanner part that does the scanning without writing properly formatted exit lists in Python.

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 14 Nov 2019
by Philipp Winter 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-14-18.00.html And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday November 14th 18:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress). == Goal of this meeting == Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor. Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor. == Links to Useful documents == * Our anti-censorship roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project… * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… * Projects from sponsors we are working on: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 --------------------------- --- 14th November 2019 --- --------------------------- == Announcements == * Remember we are moving to https://nc.torproject.net for nextcloud. If you have anything else in nc.riseup.net or storm.torproject.org please move it == Discussion == * Gettor update * Survival guide here: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor… * Let's agree on an IRC "team handle" that we configure highlights for. This will allow both team-internal and team-external people to reach our team. * There already is "network-team" and "tb-team" * "ac-team" and "anti-censorship-team" * Kicked out old snowflake proxies with #29207 update * It will take a while for metrics to come in, but it looks like we still have plenty. * Cupcake hadn't been updated at all since the original import of Snowflake * dcf is ready to migrate the Snowflake broker to the IPv6 host (#29258). He can update the snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com address from which snowflake-broker.freehaven.net will follow. Tor Metrics should automatically start following the new broker after that. * Just want to be sure people are around to react in case something goes wrong. * I'd like to copy over the metrics log, but otherwise i'm ready --cohosh * Sponsor 30: we are skipping the November meeting as Hellais and Phw already met during summit. Work Plan for November: https://nc.torproject.net/s/7MYXRmTgirqKKyk * Create an evaluation framework for bridge distribution and selection methods. (anti-censorship team) #31274 * Improve documentation on how to set up a bridge server and different pluggable transport bridge servers. (anti-censorship team) #31280 * Create scripts and configuration code for setting up a bridge on cloud providers to make it easier for operators to launch a new bridge. (anti-censorship team) #31281 * Any update to the roadmap? https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/-/boards == Actions == * Please add your October'19 highlights to our (very late) monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/Z7EjorhnnuNLVnA7Tdda == Interesting links == * Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies: https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Bock2019a.pdf * They're using genetic algorithms to derive evasion strategies == Updates == FORMAT! Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with. Hiro: Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation phw: This week (2019-11-14): * Attended OTF summit. * Had a chat with Arturo about sponsor 30 * Talked to people about private obfs4 bridge distribution * Lots of censorship-related information sharing * Thought about information sharing list for projects that ship obfs4. * Attended OTF advisory council meeting. * Filed #32276 to help BridgeDB see client IP addresses of moat requests. * Merged two new obfs4 bridge setup guides (thanks to egypcio). * Revised and merged #32203 (no BridgeDB metrics for vanilla bridges); released BridgeDB v0.9.1. * Updated BridgeDB dependencies because of security issue in pillow. * More root cause analysis of #15404 (BridgeDB's email responses aren't localised). * Closed #19839 (untranslated title strings in BridgeDB) because we seem to have fixed it already. * Reviewed #31310 and #29207. * Made progress on #31834 (improve Docker container). * Reviewed status-check script for BridgeDB (will help test our email autoresponder). Next week: * Help with: * Gaba: (updated October 30th) Last week (): * sponsor 30 This week (planned): * more sponsors ahf Last week: - Worked on #28930 This week: - Finished refactoring parts of #28930. Trying to figure out if we should begin the discussion on how PT's can report back on bootstrap info. - Continued to work on a tool to convert Trac tickets into Gitlab tickets. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-11-14 Last week: - reviewed #31028 (websocket library change) - ran some tests for #31971 (windows slowness) and couldn't reproduce it - finished proxy-go tests (#30867) - sponsor 28 PI meeting (travelled to California) - reviewed gettor survival guide - took a look at #32393 (gettor github links broken) and filed #32457 (to get access to gettor machine) - review of gettor PR - did a review of work so far on #31874 - deployed 29207 and #30867 at the broker, proxy-go instances, and for web extensions - started looking at github API for gettor releases (#32480) This week: - continue on writing snowflake tests (#29259) - more work on #29206 and #25723 - more grant writing - have proxies report what kind they are to broker #31157 (related to #29207) - gettor code reviews - add more STUN servers to snowflake (#30579) - come up with a concrete way to measure snowflake network health catalyst: week of 09/19 (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 planning - coding style discussion - comment on draft network team review guidelines - #30984 week of 09/19 (actual): - reviews - sponsor31 planning - talking with people about proposed network team review processes week of 09/26 (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 doc coordination - checking in on Season of Docs work - #30984 arlolra: 2019-11-14 Last week: - finished off / merged #31028 Next week: - add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake - read up on turbo tunnel Help with: - dcf: 2019-11-14 Last week: - reviewed Gorilla WebSocket patch (#31028) - reviewed proxy-go tests (#30867) Next week: - switch to new IPv6 broker (#29258) - prototyping KCP and QUIC in meek - revise ticket about Cupcake patch (#31497) Help with: - need meek-azure to redeploy meek-server for #31890

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Metrics Meeting Notes, November 12th 2019 [includes last week releases]
by Gaba 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Next meeting: *Thursday*, November 21st , 15 UTC Hi! We had our meeting on Tuesday November 12th (it had to be rescheduled this week). New pad for the meeting: https://nc.torproject.net/s/4zQKoype2wbB3tx Meeting Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting2/2019/tor-meeting2.2019-11-12-15.01.l… Agenda and Notes: Nextcloud migration (karsten) gaba creates a new pad on nc.torproject.net and copies all content from here there, then tells us how to find it Onionoo upgrade to 7.0-1.21.1 (karsten) Exit scanner (irl) Irl rewrote the exit scanner (just the scanner portion) in python. It will be ready for review this week. Roadmap - how are we doing? (gaba) https://trello.com/b/Mu5fYg53/tor-metrics-roadmap Releases last week: #32353: Release metrics-lib 2.9.0 #32441: Release CollecTor 1.13.0 #32442: Release metrics-lib 2.9.1 #32443: Release Onionoo 7.0-1.21.1 #32444: Release ExoneraTor 4.2.0 #32445: Release metrics-web 1.3.0 #32452: Release CollecTor 1.13.1 cheers, gaba -- Project Manager: Network, Anti-Censorship and Metrics teams gaba at torproject.org she/her are my pronouns GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Tails report for October 2019
by sajolida 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Releases ======== * Tails 4.0 was released on October 22 (major release). https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.0/ * Tails 4.1 is scheduled for December 3. The following changes were introduced in Tails 4.0: - Replace *KeePassX* with *KeePassXC*, which is more actively developed. - Remove *Scribus*. - Usability improvements to *Tails Greeter* - Tails 4.0 starts 20% faster. - Tails 4.0 requires about 250 MB less of RAM. - Tails 4.0 is 47 MB smaller to download than Tails 3.16, despite all these changes. - Add support for *Thunderbolt* devices. - ... and a lot more! Code ==== * We finished integrating _Tor Browser_ 9.0 into Tails. (#16356). * Rafael Bonifaz from the Centro de Autonomía Digital published some scripts to run a Mumble server and Mumble clients from Tails. https://autonomia.digital/es/tails/mumble/anonymity/2019/10/09/tails-mumble… Documentation and website ========================= - We improved our documentation on verifying Tails using OpenPGP. (#16175 and #15697) https://tails.boum.org/install/download#openpgp - We improved a lot our manual upgrade documentation, which all users have to follow to upgrade to Tails 4.0: - We merged /upgrade and /doc/upgrade. - We wrote full scenarios to do manual upgrades from: - Windows: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/win-overview/ - macOS: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/mac-overview/ - Linux: https://tails.boum.org/upgrade/linux-overview/ Hot topics on our help desk =========================== 1. A lot of people reported having issues installing Tails with Etcher on MacOS. (#17185) 1. We got also numerous reports from people having trouble to import PGP keys with Seahorse. (#17183) 1. And some users are facing a graphic issue on computers with two GPU caused by MAC spoofing running udevadm trigger. (#17199) Infrastructure ============== * We have published the technical design documentation that describes the setup of our translation platform. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/translation_platform/ * We upgraded the SMTP relay behind _WhisperBack_ to a v3 Onion service. * We made progress towards upgrading _Chutney_ for our test sui. (#16792) Funding ======= - We launched our end-of-year donation campaign: - We blogged about why supporting Tails is more important than ever and our achievements in 2019. https://tails.boum.org/news/2019-fundraiser/ https://tails.boum.org/news/achievements_in_2019/ - We received a very generous anonymous donation of 300 Moneros (around 15 000€)! Outreach ======== Past events ----------- * Tails was presented in Thessaloniki during 2 days for radical technologies: https://anopoli.espivblogs.net/2019/10/03/2-days-for-radical-technologies/ * intrigeri attended the Mozilla Festival on October 26-27 in London (UK). We held a booth there, talked with lots of people including a number of Tails users, and ran a "Discover Tails and translate it into your own language" session. https://www.mozillafestival.org/ * There were a Tails workshop and a talk about the last 10 years of Tails at the privacyweek in Vienna. https://privacyweek.at/ On-going discussions ==================== * We've started discussing how we will adapt to the fact Firefox will now be released every 4 weeks. Press and testimonials ====================== * 2019-10-24: ris announced the release of Tails 4.0 in Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/802876/ * 2019-10-23: heise.de published a review of Tails 4.0. https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Tails-4-0-mit-neuem-Linux-und-aktuals… Translations ============ * We have issued a call for translations. https://tails.boum.org/news/call-for-translations/ * We have published a documentation for translators who want to use our new web based translation platform. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/translate/with_translation_platform/ ## All the website - fr: 89% (5318) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy - es: 51% (3067) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy - de: 35% (2128) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy - it: 31% (1837) strings translated, 8% strings fuzzy - fa: 28% (1694) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy - pt: 23% (1364) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy ## Core pages of the website - fr: 93% (1667) strings translated, 4% strings fuzzy - es: 85% (1523) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy - de: 64% (1139) strings translated, 16% strings fuzzy - it: 60% (1071) strings translated, 18% strings fuzzy - pt: 44% (793) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy - fa: 33% (598) strings translated, 14% strings fuzzy Metrics ======= * Tails has been started more than 794 831 times this month. This makes 25 640 boots a day on average. -- sajolida Tails — https://tails.boum.org/ UX · Fundraising · Technical Writing

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No Community Team meeting today - 11th November 2019
by Pili Guerra 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi everyone, There’ll be no community team meeting today. Thanks! Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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Tor Browser Release meeting: Wednesday 13th November @ 19UTC
by Pili Guerra 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi everyone, Please join us for the Tor Browser release meeting this week. We’ve shifted the time to 19UTC now that the clocks have changed everywhere (that I’m aware of) to keep the usual time for everyone. Thanks! Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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S27: Onion Services meeting this week - Tuesday @ 15UTC
by Pili Guerra 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi everyone, We’re now back on our fortnightly schedule for these meetings so here’s your usual reminder about this happening this week. I look forward to hearing your progress and any discussions on the work ahead. Thanks! Pili — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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Network Team Meeting Notes, 6 November 2019
by Alexander Færøy 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Hello, Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Wednesday: 1) We started out by looking at the 0.4.2 status page on Trac to see how we are doing there. First RC is coming out next week. Ticket #32103 was postponed to 0.4.3. 2) We went over our Kanban board. 3) We went over our review queue. 4) People were reminded about submitting hours via Harvest 5) We were asked by the vegas team to find a volunteer to help the Git team at Tor. Alex signed up for that. 6) We discussed C coding style for the S31 work with "code cleanup". We decided to do the discussion async on the network-team list to see if we can find a style that most people like. Catalyst will lead this. 7) Gaba announced that she will begin working on the planning for our roadmapping work in December. 8) We discussed ticket #32191 about how to help downstream projects better. 9) We discussed next week and public US holidays. Next meeting is 24h later than usual, so the network-team meeting will happen Tuesday the 12th at 18 UTC instead of Monday. Retrospective will happen Tuesday the 12th at 20 UTC. 10) We discussed if we want to do some updates to our stable releases. We decided to look into that at the end of November/early December when some of our sponsors ends and the 0.4.2 work is "over". 11) We shortly discussed how our metapolicy handles the case where not everybody had voted on a policy and the deadline was reached. 12) We talked about ticket #32399 which seems flaky in CI. 13) Nobody else had anything to discuss :-) --- end of summary --- You can read today's network team meeting log at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-06-22.59.html Below are the contents of our meeting pad: gaba: (updated on october 30th) Last week (actual): check on sponsors This week (planned): nextcloud migration sponsors grant proposals Help with: teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 21 and 28 October (planned): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled - Add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem hangs (#30901) - continue work Other: - Keep on revising monotime coarse stamp bug fix Week of 21 October (actual): Urgent: - CI issues #32177 - resolved by Travis, mitigated by deleting build jobs Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - voting! - backports & backport deciding 0.4.2 bugs: - Made progress on Avoid possible overflow when converting between coarse stamp to approx ms #31482 - (Prioritised Sponsor 31 over some fixes, due to deadlines) Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Made progress on Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 - Merged Sponsor 31: coccinelle tooling and CI checks (#31919) - Reviews and merged for Nick's Sponsor 31 work Other: - Fixes on merge_ready and merged code (#31684, #31762, others) - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and extra reviews - Helping with cross-compiling issues Week of 28 October (actual): Urgent: Take Time for: 0.4.2 bugs: Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Reviews and merges for Nick's Sponsor 31 work - Config bug fix #32352 Other: - git-setup-dir.sh improvements #32347 - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and extra reviews - Helping with Android issues Week of 4 November (planned): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: disable relay mode when compiling - Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 Other: - If there is time, keep on revising monotime coarse stamp bug fix / stem trace Week of 4 November (actual): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Merged Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 - Merged associated bug fixes #32368 #32370 #32371 - Fixed more bugs #32410 - Add NSS (and lzma and zstd) support to test_parseconf.sh #32397 - Associated bug fixes - Code reviews and merges Other: - Helping with Android issues - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews - Helped out at a local Aaron Swartz Day CryptoBar - gave away some Tor stickers Nick: Week of 28 October (planned): - Event at Wendy's - 042-should TBD - Finish all support code for 29211. - Start revisions on paper with Ian & Chelsea? - Documentation work - Help with relay modularization (31851) - Discuss C style survey results. Week of 28 October (actual): - Event at Wendy's - 042-should TBD - More work and testing for config modularization. - Documentation work: doxygen is looking _much_ nicer. - C style survey results, sent out commentary on responses, and draft formatted code. Week of 4 November (planned): - S31 meeting - Doxygen work, tor-guts work. (#29214) - Write a lot of documentation for #29215 - More #30866 work; try to get it merged - Start revisions on paper with Ian & Chelsea? - Plan for upcoming stable releases. Mike: Week of 10/28 (planned): - Write a circpad doc section on formalization of machine computation and why we chose state machines - Look into circpad bugs asn filed last month that I missed (#30992, #32040, #32140) <-- (gaba: should it makes sense to assign those tickets to you if you are working on them? - #32140 is on asn's plate - you also had #28804) - Look into circpad bugs RIT folks found - Sync with Tobias wrt simulator changes - Maybe write blog post on fingerprinting research paper? Week of 10/28 (actual): - Re-read fingeprinting formalization papers and automata theory (in attemptto formalize/describe state machine strucutres; came up with some intuitions but still struggling on formalization) - Continued work on Tobias's simulator - Struggling to prioritize final circpad items - Attempted to reframe fingeprinting paper blog post; it needs to be focused on mitigations + defenses Week of 11/06 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Need help with/at risk of dropping this month: - Deep-thought-required research project followup - (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's Mozilla video, etc etc...) catalyst: week of 10/21 (2019-W43) (planned): - reviews - more GSoD stuff week of 10/21 (2019-W43) (actual): - more GSoD stuff - split swati's work into multiple commits for easier reviewing and merging - sponsor31 meeting - created child tickets to #29215 (document new architecture) and assigned some - did extra review of #31919 (coccinelle check-local target and git hooks) week of 10/28 (2019-W44) (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 tickets (children of #29215, etc) - GSoD stuff as neeeded week or 10/28 (2019-W44) (actual): - got more of swati's work merged - more feedback on C style stuff - cleaned up #30984 for early review - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff (#29215) week of 11/04 (2019-W45) (planned): - reviews - more sponsor31 architecture doc stuff (#29215) - maybe finish up #30984 - GSoD stuff as needed help with: - would like extra review on #32399 (test-stem) because i still can't get test-stem to work reliably asn: [Currently in Tim's timezone so not able to attend meeting] Week of 21/10 (planned): - Vacations until Friday Week of 21/10 (actual): - Vacations until Friday - Replied to C style survey - Caught up with emails + ongoing netteam proposals - Replied to a few trac tickets that were pending feedback Week of 28/10 (planned): - Continue catching up with (S27) things that happened the past two weeks. - Continue work on stem encoding of HSv3 descriptors. - Traveling to OTF summit on Thursday. - (Also 28th of October is Greek national holiday, but decided to work so that I start catching up on things. I might take a day off at some point this or next week.) Help with: - David, can you do the little-t-tor side of the S27 October report? This will also help me catch up with your side of things. ahf: Week of 28 October (planned): - Will be talking about Tor at Swiss Web Security Day on the 30/10 and at Driving IT the 1/11. - Expect longer response times from me this week because of traveling. Use email over IRC maybe. - Get #28930 rebased into shape for merging. - If I have time look into our Windows Jenkins problems that Weasel reported on IRC (#32320) Week of 28 October (actually): - Went to the Swiss Web Security Day and Driving IT and talked about Tor. People seemed happy. - Continued to hack on #28930. - Didn't have time to look at #32320 yet. - Look into some WLS issues for Swati. Week of 4 November (planned): - Travel with Gus to Freedom Not Fear in Brussels. - Hack on #28930 and #32320. - Continue to see if we can get the asciidoc situation solved for Swati. dgoulet: Week of 21/10 (actual): - Almost done with #30382. I have to talk to asn about the missing two error codes that are a bit complicated to get. - S27 triage and fixes on: #32094, #31958, #28970 - 3/4 there on implementing cmux tests: #32196. - Help arma/nickm on reviewing and testing #32108. - Reviews and Merges. - Network health needed attention. Week of 28/10 (planned): - Get asn up to date on the latest s27 situation. - Have #32196 in needs_review. - I hope I can finalize #30382 with asn's feedback. - s27 report. - Network health situation is still very active. - Continue my s27 quest on fixing all bugs. <-- (gaba: we need to look into the roadmap after december) - Reviews and merges as usual All the best, Alex. -- Alexander Færøy

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Notes from Vegas Meeting NOVEMBER 7 2019
by Erin Wyatt 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Vegas Team Meeting Notes NOVEMBER 7 2019 + OLD BUSINESS - isabela: Blog temporary resolution - no new information. - isabela: working on trademark faq update - isabela: writing letter to developer who was going to fix css on drupal + NEW BUSINESS - [anarcat,gaba] New nextcloud server is online at https://nc.torproject.net and will replace storm by february, so we should move [shared docs] there (eventually?) * gaba will come up with a draft about information storage and policy for documents in nextcloud and elsewhere... there's already #32273 for SVN that could be expanded * ewyatt will migrate shared pads and AFK calendar ASAP - [Sarah] Need more people to make thank you videos in different languages. We have English, Portuguese, and Spanish. * Maybe we can get it in French next? Any other translators who want to help us? Email sstevenson@. * [Sarah] Need help brainstorming any/all privacy and internet freedom “victories”; deadline for submission November 15th. Email your stories to comms@. * [geko] Should we move to 1700 UTC for the vegas team meeting? - Yes, probably. ewyatt moved the discussion to email. + GENERAL NOTES Gus: 1. Answering the last questions from the Outreachies. The last day to record the contribution was November 5th. We have excellent candidates and until the middle of November to select one of them. 2. Reaching out our Tor community in Firenze and Bologna this week. 3. Traveling this Friday to Freedom Not Fear, and also joining the Tor Meetup in Brussels. 4. Catching up email backlog. 5. Reaching out our training partners in Global South to sync about partnership agreement, training dates and training materials. 6. Still updating our documentation - Tor Browser 9 release. 7. Answering Frontdesk tickets. Some emails about letterboxing, missing windows dlls and Linux/torbrowser-launcher apparmor bug. Georg: 1. Finished release prep for fundraising banner (9.0.1/9.5a2) 2. Work on OTF proposal 3. Caught up on pre 9.0 email backlog 4. Went over remaining browser team lead transition items 5. Started thinking more about future network-health work 6. Should we move to 1700 UTC for the vegas team meeting? Nick: 1. Per usual, not enough time :) 2. 0.4.2 seems to be stabilizing; should be in RC soon. 3. 0.4.3 work in progress; looks neat. Make sure that 4. Have you seen https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/index.html ? 5. Annotated C style poll results: http://people.torproject.org/~nickm/netteam-survey-results-with-commentary.… antoine: 1. retired three old ARM build boxes that were not powerful enough and "special snowflakes", weasel looking for replacements with linaro 2. helped with: New nextcloud server is online at https://nc.torproject.net and will replace storm by february, so we should move these notes there (eventually?) 3. launched new caching service! we should see cost reductions at pantheon next month and service can be used for other slow services, will convert existing varnish instances eventually Antonela < is in Taipei timezone < I'll try to be awake at 00AM but I'm not sure, anw notes are here :) 1. I've been at the OTF summit 2. I met with Georgia and Eileen from Simply Secure to touch base about the Metrics grants 3. I met with Babatunde, our OTF researcher, to coordinate the next steps on his research. 4. I run a workshop about Participatory Design with OKThanks' Tiffany. 5. We met OTF's Learning Lab manager to talk about the next steps on our Onion Services grant and how we can communicate our future releases with the broad community. We told him that we are going to apply for a formal help and I'll put Steph in contact too. 6. We met Sarah, OTF's Red Team (Security Team) Manager to learn more about large onion services deployments (BBC). 7. We met Fiona to check in about our Onion Services grant. She will ping Pili to have a meeting in December to follow up and coordinate on the status of stuff. 8. Reviewed GR's implementation for the EY Campaign, following the latest changes. Sarah 1. EOY campaign - we are averaging over $1,000 per day more than last year and have 51 new monthly donors (we had 100 people sign up to be monthly donors in the entire 2018 campaign.) 2. Need more people to make thank you videos in different languages. We have English, Portuguese, and Spanish. 3. Need help with privacy victories 4. Prep for postal letter to go out in the next week or two to small foundations and major donors. 5. Sourcing and trying to connect with new foundations. 6. afk periodically, but available the 8-15th. Pili 1. November Roadmapping and general month start gardening 2. Started triaging trac for Tor Browser tickets 3. OTF Proposal 4. S9 Phase 2 report 5. Hope to start S44 report soon... 6. Following up with contacts from MozFest Alex: 1. Working on S28 tasks. 2. Going to "Freedom not Fear" in Brussels from Friday to Monday (both inclusive) together with Gus. 3. Talks in Zurich and Copenhagen last week went well. 4. Gitlab "soft deadlines" for medio November seems to be still plausible. 5. Going to send out Network Team report for October this week. Gaba 1. Nextcloud migration 2. Trac & roadmapping 3. Proposals 4. S31 meetings Erin 1. Personnel stuff 2. General HR/corp admin stuff 3. Shadow dev recruiting

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hello! Here are the minutes from this month's sysadmin meeting. # Roll call: who's there and emergencies anarcat, hiro, qbi present, ln5 and weasel couldn't make it but still sent updates. # What has everyone been up to ## anarcat * blog service damage control (#32090) * new caching service (#32239) * try to kick cymru back into life (#29397) * jabber service shutdown (#31700) * prometheus/ipsec reliability issues (#31916) * bumped prometheus retention to 5m/365d, bumped back to 1m/365d after i realized it broke the graphs (#31244) * LDAP sudo transition (#6367) * finished director replacement (#31786) * archived public SVN (#15948) * shutdown SVN internal (#15949) * fix "ping on new VMs" bug on ganeti hosts (#31781) * review Fastly contracts and contacts * became a blog maintainer (#23007) * clarified hardware donation policy in FAQ (#32044) * tracking major upgrades progress (fancy graphs!), visible at https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/upgrades/ - current est: april 2020 * joined a call with giant rabbit about finances, security and cost, hiro also talked with them about upgrading their CiviCRM, some downtimes to be announced soon-ish * massive (~20%) trac ticket cleanup in the "trac" component * worked sysadmin onboarding process docs (ticket #29395) * drafted a template for service documentation in https://help.torproject.org/tsa/howto/template/ * daily grind: email aliases, pgp key updates, full disks, security upgrades, reboots, performance problems ## hiro * website maintenance and eoy campaign * retire getulum * make a new machine for gettor * crm stuff with giant rabbit * some security updates and service documentation. Testing out ansible for scripts. Happy with the current setup used for gettor with everything else in puppet. * some gettor updates and maintenance * started creating the dev website * survey update * nagios gettor status check * dip updates and maintenance ## weasel * moving onionoo forward to new VMs (#31659 and linked) * moved more things off metal we want to get rid of * includes preparing a new IRC host (#32281); the old one is not yet gone ## qbi * created tor-moderators@ * updated some machines (apt uprade) ## linus * followed up with nextcloud launch # What we're up to next ## anarcat New: * caching server launch and followup, missing stats (#32239) Continued/stalled: * followup on SVN shutdown, only corp missing (#17202) * upstreaming ganeti installer fix and audit of the others (#31781) * followup with email services improvements (#30608) * followup on SVN decomissionning (#17202) * send root@ emails to RT (#31242) * continue prometheus module merges ## hiro * Lektor package upgrade * More website maintenance * nagios bridgedb status check * investigating occasional websites build failures * move translations / majus out of moly * finish prometheus tasks w/ anticensorship-team * why is gitlab giving an error when creating a MR from a forked repository? ## ln5 * nextcloud migration ## qbi * Upgrade some hosts (<5) to buster # Other discussions No planned discussion. # Next meeting qbi can't on dec 2nd and we missed two people this time, so it make sense to do it a week earlier... november 25th 1500UTC, which is 1600CET and 1000EST # Metrics of the month Access and transfer rates are an average over the last 30 days. * hosts in Puppet: 75, LDAP: 79, Prometheus exporters: 120 * number of apache servers monitored: 32, hits per second: 203 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 5, mail servers: 10 * pending upgrades: 5, reboots: 0 * average load: 0.94, memory available: 303.76 GiB/946.18 GiB, running processes: 387 * bytes sent: 200.05 MB/s, received: 132.90 MB/s Now also available as the main Grafana dashboard. Head to <https://grafana.torproject.org/>, change the time period to 30 days, and wait a while for results to render. -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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