[tor-project] SponsorR Status Report May 2017

[George Kadianakis]

Hello,

here is the May 2017 report for SponsorR:

- Reviewed and merged various prop224 code to 0.3.1:
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21871
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21978
  we also merged some spec improvements:
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22052

- Finalized some more prop224 branches and put them in needs_review:
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22006
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21859

- Published code that implements prop224 client-side descriptor fetching:
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21403
  This is the first step of the client-side implementation and we are currently
  using it to test the service-side code.

  Our next move is to implement the client-side introduction logic.

- Handled some annoying bugs caused by our already merged-upstream prop224 code:
    https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22246

- Accepted a GSoC student who will be working on improving Ahmia this summer:
    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-May/001143.html