[tor-project] Tor Browser team meeting notes, 26 June 2018
Georg Koppen
gk at torproject.org
Wed Jun 27 17:32:00 UTC 2018
Hi!
Even though the meeting yesterday was a bit bumpy due to OFTC issues
here come the usual notes and link to the chat log. For the latter see:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2018/tor-meeting.2018-06-26-17.59.log.txt
The notes from the pad are:
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Discussion:
-alpha release
-next meetings (brade: July 2; discuss future meetings at that
meeting or via email) (GeKo: I can't make it on Monday, sent a mail to
tbb-dev for further planning
(https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2018-June/000867.html))
- sysrqb: do we have a process for including new bridges in TB?
(GeKo: yes,
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Hacking#AddingNewDefaultBridges)
- sysrqb: rustconf - 16-17 August, in Portland, OR, USA - should any
of us go? (i'm thinking about going) (GeKo: sounds good to me!)
pospeselr:
Last Week:
- finished #23247 (onion lock)
- posted patch for #26039 (extension-overrides.js)
- posted patches for #26355 (no install/update on Vista or lower)
- discovered and investigated #26456 (HTTP onions tabs inherit
certificate info from previous HTTPS pages)
- #859782 (run without /proc) now fixed in FF62
- discovered an issue with pdfjs while working on #26039,
disableRange option now seems to break pdfjs altogether, will file a bug
in a hot sec
This Week:
- post fixups for #26039
- figure out and fix #26456
- file bug for pdfjs issue and investigate
- backport patch #859782 to ESR60 TorBrowser
sukhe:
Last Week:
- #9145 (enable hardware acceleration); under review
- #26251 (build Snowflake for macOS); under review
- #26319 (update mach build package); under review
- #26186 (remove intl.locale.matchOS); merged
This Week:
- #26216 (MAR generation broken)
- #12968 (Specify HEASLR in MinGW-w64)
mcs and brade:
Last week:
- Continued with #22074 (Review Firefox Developer Docs and
Undocumented bugs since FF52esr). GeKo: Did you already file bugs for
the things you found in the Dev Docs? mcs: No, we will do that.
- Worked on — but did not find the root cause of — #26381 (about:tor
page does not load on first start in localized Windows bundle) (Arthur
says: could you post your "headless" branch of tor-launcher? I'm curious
if it fixes 26506 symptom) mcs: We will clean it up and post it. Arthur:
thanks! :)
- Helped with bug triage, code reviews, and testing of esr60 fixes
and backports.
This week:
- Help with the Tor Browser 8.0a9 release, especially updater testing.
- Continue on #26381 (about:tor page does not load on first start in
localized Windows bundle)
- Assist with #26506 (NoScript not working on TBB/ESR60 on Windows)
- Look at #26477 (Meek is broken in ESR60-based Tor Browser)
- Continue on #22074 (Review Firefox Developer Docs and Undocumented
bugs since FF52esr).
Note: We will have reduced hours next week due to the U.S. July 4th
holiday.
boklm:
Last week:
- helped build/publish the new releases
- reviewed some patches:
- #26362: Use old MAR format when generating the MAR files
for the first esr60-based alpha
- #23561: Fix NSIS builds for Windows 64
- #26424: Disable using UNC paths via preference
- #26221: Backport patch for bug 1444532 to Tor Browser
stable (7.5)
- made some patches for:
- #26428: temporary fix to avoid https-e submodule error
- #26440: move vaulted vars to a separate directory
- #26461: Generating incrementals fails if the
release/signed or alpha/signed directory doesn't exist
- #26450: disable dependency on firefox-langpacks in testbuild
- #26489: dmg2mar script is broken due to added whitespace
in "Tor Browser"
- #26496: Set MAR_OLD_FORMAT=1 in dmg2mar
- #26380: Remove tor browser sandbox from the download page
- started working on a patch for #26323 (Build 32bit Linux
bundles on 64bit systems)
- booked flights for mexico meeting
This week:
- continue with 8.0a9 release
- doing some reviews
- fill upstream binutils ticket for #26148
- continue work on some ansible roles for testsuite VMs setup
(#26149)
PSA: I plan to be on vacation from 7/14-7/22
GeKo:
Last Week
-release preparations (including hotfixing a bunch of release
blockers for the alpha over the weekend)
-release signing
-patches written for seatbelt profiles removes (#26438),
unbreaking our Linux32 alpha builds (#26462)
-reviews: #23247, #26428, #26440, #20628, #26451, #26039, #26461,
#26186, #26430
This Week
-help with the alpha release
-bug triage after alpha release taking release fallout into account
-more network code audit
-work on tracking down the rust related reproducibility issue we
found (#26475)
-more reviews
-getting up to speed again with the tor browser for android state
and focusing on getting it moved forward towards the alpha release
-prepare meeting with Cliqz folks
PSA: I plan to be on vacation from 7/8-7/16 (inclusive)
sysrqb:
last week:
- Rebased TBA patches onto 60.1.0, more testing (#26401)
- Finished first-round proxy-safety audit (#21863)
- Windows/OSX/Linux Sandbox investigation
- Recovery from all-hands
- Some thinking about Tor+IPv6 because mobile networks are
adopting it faster than others
- Created some more tickets from auditing #26401
This week
- Setting up local proxy-bypass test environment for Android
- Setting #26401 in needs-review, really this time
- More sandboxing investigation, and hopefully writing an email
- I'm making notes
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/Sandbox
igt0:
Last week:
- Investigated the Gecko Mozilla Update Service, the comment #9
describes my finds (#26242)
- Commented out the ticket #26318 (Consider different
installation methods) about a proposal how we can validate de app.
- Started updating UpdateService to support F-Droid (I will open
a ticket about it this week).
This week:
- Send patch to make UpdateService support F-Droid
- Make UpdateService to use the app directory(sandboxed) instead
of an external storage.
arthuredelstein:
Last week:
- Investigated #26322 (Circuit display - UI bug - Long v3 name)
- Wrote a patch for #26430 (New torbutton icons)
- Patch for #26321 (Remove some menu items from torbutton and
move to Fil/hamburger menu
- Reviewed #26058 (Revert #18743 - "Sign in to Sync" icon not
hidden)
- Wrote patch for #20629 (More locales for Tor Browser)
- Patch for 26451 (HTTPS-E update)
- Opened and patched #26500 (Torbutton relay icon in the wrong
place)
- Opened and investigated #26506 (NoScript not working on
TBB/ESR60 on Windows)
- Investigated
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26128#comment:13
(extension startup race affects noscript control)
This week:
- Keep looking at #26506, #26128 comment 13 issues
- More UX issues in 8.0a we need to fix (some of which I will
file today)
- Optimistic SOCKS. HTTP/2 if there is time
- Help verify build as needed
tjr
- mingw-clang (Jacek) goes swimmingly! We have a successful build in
TaskCluster, and Jacek is cleaning up patches and getting them reviewed.
- Unsure of how far along he is in his contract though
- I have yet to dig into
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470772 but plan to tomorrow
- Are esr60-based builds going to have a Windows x86 release? Are
esr60-clang-based builds? (GeKo: it sems 32bit Windows builds still seem
useful, we keep them for now)
- Answer: Yes.
- I am working on fuzzyfox
- I replied to tor-qa about alpha 9 on Windows.
sisbell:
Last week:
-Got builds working in my environment: tor-browser desktop,
rbm, Fennec
This week:
- Working on getting mobile tor browser build working
Georg
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