[tor-project] Sukhbir's July 2017

Hi,

In July, I worked on the following:

* Tor Messenger

- Completed the transition to ESR52 including switching to the new build system that uses runc, and rebasing the patches. We are now building on Tor Browser tag tor-browser-52.2.0esr-7.0-1-build1.

https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-messenger-build.git/log/?h=esr52

We are now reusing most of the build components from Tor Browser thanks to the power of rbm!

- This month, the focus is to pick tickets that we think are critical and then close them before the end of the month, working towards the 0.5.0b1 release.

* TorBirdy

Prepared and tested TorBirdy release 0.2.3 that will be released in the coming week.