Here's our meeting log:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-12-05-18.00.html

And here's our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday December 5th 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&compo... * 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

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== Announcements ==

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== Discussion ==

* Let's talk about how we choose future STUN servers * https://bugs.torproject.org/30579 * Concerns voiced at https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32597#comment:6 * Alternative strategy: https://bugs.torproject.org/25591 * Iran Internet shutdown "post mortem" * What should we have done differently? * How can we be better prepared next time? * Have a DNS based transport that works with recursive ISP-resolvers? (there's a lot of talk about iodine https://github.com/yarrick/iodine in the ooni channels) * other DNS tunnels: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/DnsPluggableTransport/Surv... * Gettor workflow while gitlab doesn't accept pull requests (I still didn't have time to look at that but I will look it up nextt week. --gaba) * wrt to the migration we are gathering problems here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/gitlab-migration-problems * Snowflake seems to be partially blocked in China (see #32657 and #32597) * Can we get permissions to add/modify nagios monitoring targests ourselves? * This would remove friction and alleviate load on our admins * #30946 (port bridgedb to python3) should be on our roadmap * python2's EOL is on january 1 * Emerald onion has some spare capacity and can help us out * Do we want anything snowflake-related? More proxy-go instances?

== Actions ==

* Please add your work to our monthly report! * https://pad.riseup.net/p/bwskP7zCeW3TTxfg_O1C

== Interesting links ==

* A guide to work with distributed teams: "When you’re running a distributed organization, assume that someone missed the email, message, announcement, or meeting." https://increment.com/teams/a-guide-to-distributed-teams/

== 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 (2019-12-05): * Reviewed #32480, #31157, #32576 * Agreed to give a Tor presentation at my old college in Austria, during vacation in January * Lots of thinking about PT steering committee * We decided not to be a part of it * Improved obfs4 docker bridge (#31834) * Pushed new docker image 0.3 and announced it on tor-relays@ * There's already more in #32550 * Tested new default bridge from UMN; added default bridge from Georgetown; removed dgoulet's IPv6 default bridge * More work towards getting another data source for RACE, so we can study obfs4 in the wild * Filed #32622 for a better STATUS_CLIENT message in a specific case * Added a persistent cache to bridgestrap, so test results don't disappear after a restart * Testing is computationally expensive and BridgeDB's host seems underprovisioned * Reached out to UMass Amherst and UMich research groups to get scans of default bridges going * Reached out to noisebridge once again, in the hope that the default bridge sets 'bridgedistribution none' * The original maintainers are all gone :/ * Started porting BridgeDB to Python 3 * Will require lots of tedious work * Took a look at the spydermix system Next week: * Help with: *

Gaba: (updated October 30th) Last week (): * grants writing This week (planned): * gitlab migration: look at issues and problems in gitlab.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-12-05 Last (2) weeks: - fixed (wrote, merged, and deployed) a data race in the broker that was causing crashes (#32576) - merged and deployed collection of proxy type metrics (#31157) - finished snowflake test coverage (#29259 and #32300) - continued work on understanding snowflake health (#32545) - started investigating possible snowflake blocking in China (#32657) - read papers and made some progress on grant writing - worked on setting up some throughput tests for windows (#31971) - made more fixes to gettor script for releases (#32480) - updated web extension and web badge deployments with new translations and #31157 This week: - finish full draft of grant - continue on #29206 and #25723 - run some concrete tests for snowflake on windows (#31971) - update github gettor links (#32393) - revisit #31109 and see if there's more we need to do for that - work on snowflake test suites #25595 - continue snowflake health checks and looking at censorship in china (#32657) Help with: - review of #32300 and #29259 - gettor repo at https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor is still behind - can't make pull requests in gitlab still - permissions error for https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31157#comment:14

arlolra: 2019-12-05 Last week: - add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake #32499 Next week: - read up on turbo tunnel - pick a new task (#31902, #31201, #19026, ?) Help with: - review #32499

dcf: 2019-12-05 Last week: - helped debug a broker crash (#32576) - turbo tunnel in meek - noted some Gitlab migration issues at https://pad.riseup.net/p/gitlab-migration-problems - wrote a summary of the Conjure paper Next week: - decommission old broker (#32502) - turbo tunnel in meek Help with: