[tor-project] Network team meeting notes, 9 Sep 2019
Nick Mathewson
nickm at torproject.org
Mon Sep 9 18:04:09 UTC 2019
Hi!
You can read today's meeting log at
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-09-09-17.00.html
Below are the contents of our meeting pad:
= Network team meeting pad! =
This week's team meeting is at Monday 9 September 1700 UTC on
#tor-meeting on OFTC.
September-October schedule:
* Monday 9 September 1700 UTC
* Monday 16 September 1700 UTC
* Monday 23 September 1700 UTC
* Wednesday 2 October 2300 UTC
* Monday 7 October 1700 UTC
* Monday 14 October 1700 UTC
* Monday 21 October 1700 UTC
* Monday 28 October 1700 UTC
Welcome to our meeting!
First meeting each month: Wednesday at 2300 UTC
Other meetings each month: Mondays at 1700 UTC until 3 November 2019,
when daylight saving time changes
On #tor-meeting on OFTC.
(This channel is logged while meetings are in progress.) (See
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-September/001459.html
for background.)
Want to participate? Awesome! Here's what to do:
1. If you have updates, enter them below, under your name.
2. If you see anything you want to talk about in your updates, put
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3. Show up to the IRC meeting and say hi!
After each week's meetings, the contents of this pad will be sent to
tor-project @ lists.torproject.org.
After that is done, the pad can be used for the next week.
== Previous notes ==
(Search the tor-project mailing list archive for older notes.)
12 August: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-August/002431.html
19 August: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-August/002435.html
26 August: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-August/002442.html
4 September: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-September/002465.html
== Stuff to do every week =
* Coming up: the 0.4.2 release status page.
See https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases/042Status
(This page automatically shows the latest trac ticket status.)
* Let's check and update the roadmap.
What's done, and what's coming up?
We're using a kanban board:
https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/core/tor/boards
* Check reviewer assignments! How reviews from last week worked? Any blocker?
Here are the outstanding reviews, oldest first, including sbws
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component=Core+Tor%2FTor&or&status=needs_review&component=Core+Tor%2Fsbws&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=changetime&col=reviewer&col=keywords&order=changetime
== Reminders ==
* Remember to "/me status: foo" at least once daily.
* Remember that our current code reviews should be done by end-of-week.
* Make sure you are in touch with everybody with whom you are doing
work for the next releases.
* Remember to fill up the 'actual point' field when you close a
ticket. We need those to calculate velocity.
* Check other's people call for help in their entries.
* When you are overloaded, it is ok to say "no" to things.
* And it is ok to reschedule things.
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== Announcements ==
On September there is a technical writer (Swati) from Google Season of
Docs starting to work with us on rewriting the Tor manual page. She is
participating in the network team meetings. Her project:
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-tor
We are moving the kanban board from storm into
https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/core/tor/boards . This will help
lead a plan for migration into dip.torproject.org.
People working on sponsor 31 will meet for a second time on Tuesday
September 10 at 2300 UTC. We will talk in #tor-meeting and the agenda
is here:https://pad.riseup.net/p/IRjuGtQkWNKZLc7qskDb
Remember that 0.4.2.x-alpha freezes on 15 September. For large
features, the freeze date is 8 September.
Bug Smash Fund campaign has been on:
https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs
The idea is that this will be funding non-sponsor bugs. If you are
working on ticket that is not sponsored please tag it with
BugSmashFund keyword.
Remember to look at transition to gitlab
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2019-September/002458.html
== Discussion ==
* When is the next time origin/master will be open?
- (Some non-critical circpad things should go in somewhere, but
don't need 042)
* Some of our needs_review tickets are getting a bit old, should we
give them to other people?
== Recommended links ==
"Testing the boundaries of collaboration"
https://increment.com/testing/testing-the-boundaries-of-collaboration/
== Updates ==
Name:
Week of XYZ (planned):
- What you planned for last week.
Week of XYZ (actual):
- What you did last week.
Week of ABC (planned):
- What you're planning to do this week.
Help with:
- Something you may need help with.
PLEASE DO NOT BULK-DELETE THE OLD ENTRIES!
Leave the "Planned" parts!
Leave the parts for last week and this week!
gaba: (updated on september 4th)
Last week (actual):
. s31
This week (planned):
. s31 report
. scalability funding proposal
Help with:
teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time)
Week of 2 September (actual):
Urgent:
-
Roadmap:
- Sponsor 31 config.c reviews
- Sponsor 31 retrospective and planning
Other:
- #31549 review - old relays out of the consensus
- #31664 triage - guard number config
- quick tools and quick fixes that make development easier
Week of 9 September (planned):
Urgent:
-
Roadmap:
- Sponsor 31 config.c refactor reviews
- finish add tor controller trace logging to diagnose stem
hangs (#30901)
- try nickm's suggested a simpler implementation
- split off bugs I found while writing the control trace code
Other:
- team policies: commit bit and roles?
Week of 9 September (actual):
Urgent:
-
Roadmap:
- Sponsor 31 config.c refactor
Other:
- bug smash on logging bugs #31594 and children (maybe
some of these are bugs on other sponsored work)
- bug triage
- emails
Nick:
Week of 2 September (planned):
- Get 31240 merged if possible, and if it is, solve *all*
pending 29211 backlog issues.
- S31 Meeting on Tuesday 2300 UTC (rescheduled)
- S31 work TBD, pending division of tasks on Tuesday
- Start removing work from 0.4.2 milestone, and tagging other
work with must/should/can.
- Investigate 31570 (mmap crash in 0.4.1) unless somebody else
picks it up.
- Reviews and merges.
- Coordinate role transition plans with ahf and gaba.
Week of 2 September (actual):
- Resolved several pending 29211 (config refactor) issues
(31532 31529 31624 31627 31629)
- Took on additional review, merge stuff.
- S31 meeting (initial)
- Began 0.4.2 triage
- Came up with a patch for 31570 (mmap crash)
- Review and merge
- worked on 31578 (practracker vs make dist)
- Added proposals 306, 307 to repository
- Began proposal for adding proposals more regularly.
- Made myself a checklist to follow before putting things in
needs_review.
Week of 9 September (planned):
- Merge big pending patches. (Sorry asn & dgoulet! :/ )
- Respond to questions on S31 pad before tuesday
- Another S31 meeting
- Work on circuitpadding doc merge stuff.
- Start a PETS review
- Work on more 29211 followup issues
- More 0.4.2 triage.
Mike:
Week of 8/26 (planned):
- Catch up on mail/tickets
- Work on circpad dev doc
Week of 8/26 (actual):
- Catch up on mail/tickets
- Finished rough draft of circpad dev doc; mailed to researchers
Week of 9/4 (planned):
- Funding proposal catchup + direction
- Firefox ESR new feature and network code reviews
- Fold in researcher feedback on circpad dev doc
Need help with/at risk of dropping this month:
- Not doing any code reviews this month, unless on circpad
patches. Got enough for Tor Browser
- Circpad doc followup/fold-in? (asn?)
- Firefox ESR code review
- (I am working on this, but unlikely to finish it this
month at this rate of interruption+distraction)
- Firefox new feature review
- Funding proposal review, meetings, coordination,
cross-checking estimations, strategy, etc.
- Deep-thought-required research project followup
- (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's
Mozilla video, etc etc...)
- Relay community drive/mgmt (and related LTS herding)
catalyst:
week of 08/26 (2019-W35) (planned):
- reviews
- investigate some Jenkins failures
- get #30984 ready for review (key-value lines for control
replies) -- still documenting some things
week of 08/26 (2019-W35) (actual):
- reviews
- made some progress on getting #30984 ready for review --
cleaned up some memory management issues, improved some documentation
- chasing spurious chutney failures; they turn out to be
somehow sandbox-related? thanks to teor for helping diagnose
week of 09/02 (2019-W36) (planned):
- TPI holiday 09/02
- sponsor31 check-in retrospective (and follow up)
- reviews
- more work on #30984
week of 09/02 (2019-W36) (actual):
- TPI holiday 09/02
- reviews
- sponsor31 check-in
week of 09/09 (2019-W37) (planned):
- more sponsor31 reporting and check-in
- reviews
- look at gitlab migration plan doc
- #30984
need help with:
- please help take a look at some jenkins failures:
* tor-ci-linux-0.2.9 (old-ish)
https://jenkins.torproject.org/job/tor-ci-linux-0.2.9/292/console --
this looks like a travis failure. There's a java exception caused by a
timeout, and no builders actually happen.
* tor-ci-linux-0.4.1 (new-ish)
https://jenkins.torproject.org/job/tor-ci-linux-0.4.1/ARCHITECTURE=amd64,SUITE=buster/28/console
Buster amd64 is failing with what appears to be
08:50:53 08:50:53 FAIL: src/test/test_workqueue_efd.sh
08:50:53 ====================================
08:50:53 08:50:53 Illegal instruction
08:50:53 FAIL src/test/test_workqueue_efd.sh (exit status: 132)
I wonder if this is transient, or if it is a real
problem? We didn't change this code any time recently.
* tor-ci-linux-master-clang (new-ish)
https://jenkins.torproject.org/job/tor-ci-linux-master-clang/3640/ARCHITECTURE=i386,SUITE=sid/consoleFull
This is only happening on i686 sid, and it is a compiler segfault.
This makes me think it is a bug in the clang package in debian
unstable.
* tor-ci-mingwcross-* (old-ish)
https://jenkins.torproject.org/job/tor-ci-mingwcross-master/2499/ARCHITECTURE=amd64,SUITE=buster/console
This looks like a misconfiguration to me -- it seems to be complaining
about not having found a zlib package maybe?
* tor-ci-windows-master (old?)
https://jenkins.torproject.org/job/tor-ci-windows-master/78/console
This looks like it could be a real bug: a unit test is
failing. It's in "slow/process/callbacks" -- I believe ahf knows that
code best.
asn:
[Might be for dinner at the time of the meeting]
Week of 02/09 (planned):
- Hyper focusing on onionbalance+stem #31369.
- The goal is to be able to encode and decode v3 descriptors by
the end of next week.
- Reviews/merges as per the usual
Week of 02/09 (actual):
- Worked on #31369
- Created stem module that encodes/decodes ed25519 certs
- Started work on encoding descriptors
- Pending feedback on #31369 by atagar.
- Created another stem onionbalance ticket #31648 and started work on it
while waiting for atagar feedback on #31369
- Some more findings on old #28970 bugfix ticket.
- Did more triaging and updated points on onionbalance master ticket (#29998)
Week of 09/09 (actual):
- More work on stem side of onionbalance (#31369 and #31648)
ahf:
Week of 2nd of September (planned):
- Returned from long vacation of BornHack and CCCamp.
- Harvest reporting.
- Reading mailing lists, meeting minutes, catch up on
community council things, look at Trac and tor.git changes of August.
- Hacking on #5304.
- Going to be away Thursday (around Friday) to attend a
conference in DK and talk about Tor at the engineers union here in DK.
Week of 2nd of September (actually):
- Harvest reporting.
- Read mailing lists, meeting minutes, cought up on community
council things, look at Trac and tor.git changes of August.
- Hacking on #5304. <gaba: it says that is merge ready , is
that completed?>
- Did a talk on Tor at the engineering union in DK.
Week of 9th of September (planned):
- Solve my laptop situation.
- Work on #5304 and #28930.
- Work with Nick and Gaba on which tasks to takeover.
dgoulet:
Week of 02/09 (actual):
- Most of my time has been on #30200 parent tasks working on building and
running an onion service health tool (#28841).
- From the above, several tickets have been opened, see the child tickets
of #30200.
- I've mostly worked on the service side health. I've moved now on writing
the tool analysis part for the client side.
- One ticket I opened which was needed for my development branch in #30200
that affects the wider tor (and found a bug): #31608. It is good that we
are all awayre of this imo.
Week of 09/09 (planned):
- Continue making sure #31549 is on track and doesn't stall.
- Help write blog post about the above ^ in order to be as loud as we can
about this big change in the network.
- Continue on #30200 to dig into client side behavior (s27 stuff).
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