[or-cvs] r12865: rejigger priorities. 'top' is critical for december, 'high' (torpedo/trunk/docs)

[arma at seul.org]

Author: arma
Date: 2007-12-18 19:03:02 -0500 (Tue, 18 Dec 2007)
New Revision: 12865

Modified:
   torpedo/trunk/docs/TODO
Log:
rejigger priorities. 'top' is critical for december, 'high'
would improve our position in december.


Modified: torpedo/trunk/docs/TODO
===================================================================
--- torpedo/trunk/docs/TODO	2007-12-18 23:45:24 UTC (rev 12864)
+++ torpedo/trunk/docs/TODO	2007-12-19 00:03:02 UTC (rev 12865)
@@ -7,25 +7,33 @@
 ---------------------
 
 - Make Vidalia start and stop Polipo too
-[mid priority]
+[high priority]
 
+- Make Vidalia show some evidence of activity while it is starting Tor
+[mid priority -- what do you have in mind here?]
+
 - Prevent user from starting Firefox manually while Tor is still
   starting up
 [mid priority]
 
-- Make Vidalia show some evidence of activity while it is starting Tor
-
 - Also make Vidalia show what percentage progress Tor has made in
   building a circuit (needs Tor to send events while startup is proceeding)
+  - Tor should send out more status_event messages based on various
+    milestones towards its circuit-establishment phase.
+  - Vidalia should recognize these and either change the text for
+    "Tor is starting up", or have a status bar, or something.
+[high priority]
 
 - Make Vidalia kill Firefox when it exits. Currently Vidalia
   terminates the process, but killing FirefoxPortable does not end Firefox.
   Either we could kill firefox.exe directly, or wait until Vidalia
   launches Firefox.
+  Let's wait until Vidalia launches Firefox directly. -RD
 
 - Check whether Vidalia auto-detects language if not specified. If
   this is likely to guess right, then maybe we should not specify in
   the config file.
+[high priority]
 
 Firefox modifications
 ---------------------
@@ -37,7 +45,8 @@
 [mid priority]
 
 - Eventually try to remove NSIS dependency for FirefoxPortable and
-  move any necessary code into Vidalia
+  move any necessary code into Vidalia. See docs/ToaST-startup.txt
+  for what we will want to do.
 [low priority]
 
 - Investigate how to programmatically add extensions and modify
@@ -81,7 +90,7 @@
      ?
     NoScript [probably superseded by Torbutton]
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
-[mid priority]
+[high priority]
 
 - Decide what preferences to set and what extensions to pre-install
   [ xB use this: http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Nov-2007/msg00227.html ]
@@ -113,7 +122,7 @@
 [? priority]
 
 - Come up with a new name
-[high priority]
+[top priority]
 
 - What should the installer look like (should it have the Tor logo)?
   We need to be clear in the documentation about the difference between
@@ -123,11 +132,14 @@
 - Let us build a Chinese-language and Farsi-language version. These
   would have Vidalia and Firefox configured to use these languages
   by default.
-[high priority]
+[top priority]
 
   * We need a better Farsi translation in that case
+  Once we have it working reasonably well, we should bug our Farsi-speaking
+  friends (for example, our friends at IBB) for help.
 
 - Modify Torbutton to prevent user from disabling Tor (easily)
+[mid priority]
 
 - Restore some/all Firefox settings on exit