[tor-project] Tails report for April 2019

[sajolida]

Releases
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* Tails 3.14 is scheduled for May 21.

Code
====

- The Foundations Team met for a sprint focused on porting Tails to
  Debian 10 (Buster):

  https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190408.075929.1c2952c0.en.html
  https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190429.091241.82e34497.en.html

- We finalized our criteria for including dictionaries, fonts and
  language packs, which will be reflected in Tails 3.14.

- We prototyped a USB image with Secure Boot support and GRUB, in order
  to better understand what implementation difficulties we should
  expect.

- We submitted to ikiwiki upstream a branch that makes it keep PO files
  up-to-date for a set of languages that are not ready to be enabled and
  visible on the live website yet. This will allow us to merge into our
  main Git repository changes made via our upcoming Weblate-based
  translation platform, which supports languages whose work-in-progress
  translation is not ready for prime-time yet.

  https://ikiwiki.info/todo/_Add_ikiwiki_PO-Plugin_to_ignore_languages/)

- We uploaded to Debian a few fixes for regressions in the GNOME on-
  screen keyboard.


https://tracker.debian.org/news/1038188/accepted-gnome-shell-3302-6-source-into-unstable/

Hot topics on our help desk
===========================

1. Some users reported loosing the access to their persistent volume

   https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/10976

2. A few reported the "USB stick becomes unbootable boot after first
   boot" issue

   https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/16389

3. Some issues caused by partially applied incremental upgrades

   https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/14754

Infrastructure
==============

- The Foundations Team started experimenting with GitLab for
  merge requests.


https://salsa.debian.org/tails-team/tails/merge_requests/?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=merged).

- We started looking into how GitLab could work for our issues
  tracking and drafted a rough plan.

  https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/GitLab

Funding
=======

- We started working on a proposal for Mozilla Open Source Support
  Awards.

  https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/

Outreach
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Past events
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- sajolida, moire, and emmapeel were at the [Internet Freedom
  Festival on April 1-5 in Valencia, Spain.

  There, sajolida presented a workshop on "Creating usable tools from
  day one with paper prototyping"


https://platform.internetfreedomfestival.org/en/IFF2019/public/schedule/custom/975).

- carlosm2 (@dospesosinc) held 2 workshops about Tails in Mexico:

  - On April 13 at the Colima Hacklab

    https://twitter.com/dospesosinc/status/1115675448753573888

  - On April 25 at UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico

    https://flisol.acatlan.unam.mx/

- There was a Tails workshop on April 27 in Vienna as part of the
  Anarchist Black Cross festival


https://abcfestvienna.noblogs.org/post/2019/04/11/tails-workshop-saturday-4-pm/

On-going discussions
====================

- We studied and narrowed down our options regarding the future of
  Electrum in Tails. It seems there will be a way forward, although it's
  unclear at this point how much effort it will require from us.

  https://lists.autistici.org/message/20190429.094536.22d3598f.en.html

Metrics
=======

* Tails has been started more than 733 234 times this month. This makes
  24 441 boots a day on average.

-- 
sajolida