Hi all :)
This is my monthly status report for April 2023 with the main activities I
have done during the period.
## 0. Research
* Onion Plan session in Costa Rica:
* Slides and notes:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-…
* Issue:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionplan/-/issues/7
* I'd like to thank everyone that attended the session and also those who
gave valuable feedback :)
* Onion Plan updates: while preparing to the session, I made a number of
updates, but there's still many things in the TODO list.
* Website:
https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionplan/
* Recent changes:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionplan/activity
* Onion-Location: problems and fixes session in Costa Rica:
* Helped with note taking and with the discussion:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-…
## 1. Development
* Onionprobe: 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 releases:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/blob/main/Cha…
* Helped with the internal Security Policy Session at the Tor In-person
meeting.
## 2. Support
* For the Community Day in Costa Rica,
* I helped writing the `cebollitas` project, with some small Onion Services
examples currently based on Docker:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/cebollitas
* We had a nice workshop about setting up Onion Services and we did a small
exercise about how a very basic distributed chat system could work. It was
just people writing messages on HTML files and refreshing each other Onion
Service tabs on their browsers, but was enough to teach the mechanics and let
people know how the technology can easily enable them to send content without
having to run a centralized service.
* We collected feedback about how to improve the workshop and also how
deploying and developing system with Onion Services technology could
be made easier.
## 3. Organization
Time spent (from the total available for Tor-related work):
| Category | Percentage
|---------------|------------
| Research | 19
| Development | 7
| Support | 17
| Organization | 57
|---------------|------------
| Total | 100
(Despite lot's of research, development and support, the Costa Rica meeting
made me track most of my time as "organization" work).
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Hi everyone!
Here is my status report for April 2023.
At the beginning of the month, Mullvad Browser was released 🎉️!
So, I answered several technical questions about it and reviewed some of
the issues we received. I also solved some quick ones.
Also, I rebased both Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser to 102.10esr and
created the first 12.5 alpha branch for Mullvad Browser.
I was the second builder for Tor Browser 12.5a5, which made us find
another DMG reproducibility problem [0]. A merge request to fix it is
pending review.
Another task was continuing with some Torbutton refactors. I want to
move the code out of the big legacy commit and refactor it.
I created a first merge request that targets the first 13.0 branch for
the changes on the domain isolator/new circuit button [1].
However, I am pausing the refactor to focus again on upstreaming patches
[2]. In a week, Firefox 115 is going to Nightly, and we are starting the
ESR rebase for 13.0. This will give us two additional months to work on
it, for a total of 5 months before 102 goes EOL.
I think I will spend this month on this.
Finally, last week I was at the Costa Rica in-person meeting [3].
Best,
Pier
[0]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41737
[1]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests…
[2]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40789
[3]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/2023-Tor-Meeting-Costa-Rica-…
