[tor-dev] Enhancement for Tor 0.3.4.x

[Nick Mathewson]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 2:32 PM, David Goulet <dgoulet at torproject.org> wrote:
> Hello everone!
>
> As an effort to better organize our 0.3.4.x release for which the merge window
> opens in 3 days (Feb 15th, 2018), we need to identify the enhancement(s) that
> we want so we can better prioritize the development during the merge window
> timeframe (3 months).
>
> Each feature should have its ticket marked for 0.3.4 milestone and with an
> Owner set so we know who is "leading" that effort. It doesn't have to be the
> person who code the whole thing but should be a good point of contact to start
> with (and it can change over time as well).
>
> It is possible that an enhancement can have more than one ticket so in this
> case, please make a "parent" ticket that explains the whole thing and child
> tickets assigned to it.
>
> The network team just had its weekly meeting and if I recall correctly, these
> enhancement should be planned for 0.3.4 (please the people who works on this,
> can you tell us the tickets and make sure they are up to date?)
>
> - Privcount (prop#280)
> - large CREATE cells (prop#249)
>
> If you plan to do a set of patches for a feature or enhancement, please do
> submit it on this thread and make sure a proper ticket exists with an Owner.

My biggest additional wishlist items for 0.3.4 are:

  * ZSTD tuning (#24368)
  * Fewer wakeups when idle (#14039)

And as a reach:
  * Improved TLS 1.3 support

We should also keep in mind that as we accumulate these goals, we
might also need to pare them down if they start to get out of hand.

-- 
Nick