[tor-dev] Damian's Status Report - December 2012

[Damian Johnson]

Hi all. Between the holidays and being oncall for work I didn't have
very high hopes for December. However, by the time the dust settled it
turned out to be a surprisingly productive month. Projects included...

* Finishing stem support for event handling. This was the last major
feature we were missing before having feature parity with TorCtl.

* Ported arm and the consensus-tracker to stem [1][2]. The arm
migration went surprisingly smoothly, but there's still a lot of
cleanup work left to do here. Ideally arm will be a far simpler
codebase now that it doesn't need a wrapper module around the
controller.

* Moved stem's site to "https://stem.torproject.org/". [3]

* Smaller things include...

 * finally fixed the periodic freezes in arm [4]
 * uniform support for a default response in Controller getters [5]
 * vastly improved performance and memory usage for the ExitPolicy class
 * expansions for descriptor handling [6][7][8]
 * extend_circuit(), attach_stream(), and get_circuits() support
(patches by Ravi) [9][10]
 * TAKEOWNERSHIP support (thanks to Lunar^ for the initial patch) [11]
 * fixed a bug where circuit/stream ids were sometimes ints (caught by
Lunar^) [12]
 * added a post-authentication hook so event listeners can be reattached to Tor
 * several OPW discussions with Marina (we didn't get any substantial
applications)
 * added flash proxy and txtorcon to the volunteer page, and made lots
of general revisions [13][14][15]
 * discussed TorCtl deprecation with Mike and made the announcement [16]

* Besides this, Sean Robinson has been submitting an absurd number of
fixes, improvements, and code reviews of his own. Many thanks!

 * version pre-requirement checks for events and tests [17]
 * testing expansion for malformed events [18]
 * close_stream() method [19]
 * STREAM_BW event handling [20]
 * testing util expansion to make it easier to test client use cases [21]
 * get_socks_listeners() method and related mocking changes [22]
 * ... and many, many more [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]

Cheers! -Damian

[1] https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/commitdiff/ca6026c?hp=d83f1ad
[2] https://gitweb.torproject.org/atagar/tor-utils.git/commitdiff/2e42c5d
[3] https://trac.torproject.org/7324
[4] https://trac.torproject.org/6439
[5] https://trac.torproject.org/7832
[6] https://trac.torproject.org/7354
[7] https://trac.torproject.org/7827
[8] https://trac.torproject.org/7828
[9] https://trac.torproject.org/7653
[10] https://trac.torproject.org/7152
[11] https://trac.torproject.org/7666
[12] https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commitdiff/6711458be83b2050b058b7528bccb4e15c2c6a25
[13] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/049737.html
[14] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/050199.html
[15] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-December/051059.html
[16] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torctl-deprecation-and-stem-plans
[17] https://trac.torproject.org/7674
[18] https://trac.torproject.org/7736
[19] https://trac.torproject.org/7687
[20] https://trac.torproject.org/7616
[21] https://trac.torproject.org/7693
[22] https://trac.torproject.org/7784
[23] https://trac.torproject.org/7617
[24] https://trac.torproject.org/7673
[25] https://trac.torproject.org/7672
[26] https://trac.torproject.org/7686
[27] https://trac.torproject.org/7688
[28] https://trac.torproject.org/7735
[29] https://trac.torproject.org/7741
[30] https://trac.torproject.org/7778
[31] https://trac.torproject.org/7779
[32] https://trac.torproject.org/7328
[33] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004240.html
[34] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004271.html
[35] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2012-December/004306.html