[tor-dev] want to contribute to tor

[adrelanos at riseup.net]

> Hi Adrelanos,
>
> I think adding http proxy support to tor sounds more interesting. But
> there
> seems to be a looong discussion on ticket #6060 whether to add this
> functionality inside tor or not.

> What is the final roadmap, if any?

I think it's undecided at the moment. If there were someone capable and
willing to do the work, that may change.

Try #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net. Since ioerror was interested I speculate
he'll mentor you and/or mediate that ticket. The other Officials in that
channel may get you started as well.

>
> Debamitro
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:32 PM, adrelanos <adrelanos at riseup.net> wrote:
>
>> Debamitro Chakraborti:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am a C/C++ programmer wanting to dabble in the world of open source.
>> I
>> > got to know of Tor and I felt the product is an important one for
>> humanity.
>> > I have downloaded, built and run tor and also torsocks. Are there any
>> > coding tasks needed in tor at present? Do let me know.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Debamitro Chakraborti
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> perhaps solving the ticket "add http proxy support to Tor"?
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6060
>>
>> Or working on torsocks maybe?
>>
>> At the moment the torsocks input methods are a bit weird. The and
>> usewithtor, torify and uwt wrappers should be be redundant.
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks
>> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-July/024925.html
>>
>> The uwt interface could be extended to a point where all settings which
>> can be defined in the config file can also be defined by command line.
>> And if that's too much, an option to supply the configuration file by
>> command line would help as well.
>>
>> Interface could look like this:
>>
>> Usage: torsocks [-h] [-v] -t server_type -i ip -p port <command>
>> [<options>...]
>> Example: torsocks -t 5 -i 127.0.0.1 -p 9050 wget
>> https://check.torproject.org
>>          sudo torsocks -t 5 -i 192.168.0.10 -p 9104 /usr/bin/apt-get
>> --yes dist-upgrade
>>
>> The list of other torsocks issues also looks reasonable small.
>>
>>
>> https://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/list?can=2&q=&colspec=ID+Type+Status+Priority+Milestone+Owner+Summary&cells=tiles
>>
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/torsocks#Tickets
>>
>> And if I am not mistaken, Vidalia is currently lacking development.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> adrelanos
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