[tor-bugs] #4905 [Website]: make an obfsproxy project page on the website

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#4905: make an obfsproxy project page on the website
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 Reporter:  arma     |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  task     |         Status:  new
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Component:  Website  |        Version:     
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Comment(by asn):

 obfsproxy needs testing, and it will never be truly ready for end users
 till end users test it...

 In any case, I think that mentioning obfsproxy in the projects page could,
 indeed, get some more people involved with obfsproxy.

 Unfortunately, obfsproxy doesn't have a cool-looking page like
 https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en or https://tails.boum.org/
 . As a temporary solution, till an end-user-friendly webpage is created
 [0], maybe we can link to the doc/ directory of obfsproxy's gitweb [1].
 This way, people who are looking for something to hack on, can learn about
 obfsproxy; and when the end-user-friendly webpage is done, we will switch
 the links to that.

 Here are some plausible table entries for
 https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en:
 {{{
 Name: obfsproxy
 Category: Censorship circumvention
 Language: C
 Activity: Moderate
 Contributors: nickm, asn
 }}}

 Here is some brief text that could appear when clicking 'obfsproxy':
 {{{
 A proxy that shapes Tor traffic, making it harder for censors to detect
 and block Tor.
 }}}

 here is a "project ideas" text that could appear below (like torsocks is
 doing):
 {{{
 Project ideas:

 obfsproxy is young, under development and needs your help. Run it,
 test it, review or refactor code and documentation, find bugs, write
 code, create or fix trac tickets ('Pluggable Transports' component),
 write your own pluggable transport protocols!
 }}}

 The 'code' button should link to:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git
 and the 'bug tracker' button should link to:
 {{{
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=needs_information&status=needs_review&status=needs_revision&status=new&status=reopened&component=Pluggable+transport&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component
 }}}

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 Here is another short introduction to obfsproxy that could be placed in
 https://www.torproject.org/projects/projects :
 {{{
 obfsproxy:

 obfsproxy is a pluggable transports proxy written in C; it
 shapes Tor traffic, making it harder for censors to detect and block
 the Tor protocol.
 }}}

 Any improvements to the above descriptions are more than welcome.

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 I guess I should mention, that I have '''no''' idea on how to interact
 with the website and how to add the above strings to those pages. It would
 be great if it was automagically done by someone who knows how to do it,
 but if no one volunteers, I'll look into it sometime this week.

 I'll also start looking into making a small webpage [0], similar to
 https://www.torproject.org/projects/arm.html.en. Again, if someone has
 plenty of free time and enjoys designing webpages, I would be glad to get
 some help.

 [0]: A future obfsproxy webpage could have some links on how to get
 obfsproxy and how to install it, and some web-ish version of
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git/tree/HEAD:/doc/obfs2/howto
 (preferably with screenshots).

 [1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/obfsproxy.git/tree/HEAD:/doc

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