[tor-project] PieroV's Monthly Status Report, July 2024

[Pier Angelo Vendrame]

Hi everyone!
Here is my status report for July 2024.

I worked almost exclusively on the ESR transition also this month.
I reviewed the rebased patchset more deeply to find potential runtime 
and logic errors caused by upstream changes or similar problems [0].
For example, upstream worked a lot on search engines, and the patch we 
had for providing our custom default selection broke as a result, and we 
had to re-implement it.
Then, before the 14.0a1 release, I rebased Tor Browser and Mullvad 
Browser onto 128.0.
After that, I switched to audits. During every ESR transition, we check 
all the bugs Mozilla closed to see if some need particular attention [1].
Until last year, this work was carried out only by a person. This year, 
we decided to spread it to all the team and have multiple persons review 
each Firefox version. I was assigned Firefox 116 to 119, and so far, 
I've reviewed 119+118 and started 117.

Apart from that, I worked on the usual maintenance tasks: I rebased the 
13.5 series onto 115.13.0esr for 13.5.1 at the beginning of the month, 
and yesterday, I rebased onto 115.14.0esr and 128.1.0esr for 13.5.2 and 
14.0a2, respectively.
Finally, I worked on sunsetting Windows 7 support on 14.0 [2], and I 
updated our pipeline to fetch Firefox's translations after they were 
moved to GitHub [3], as this blocked 13.5.1.

Cheers,
Pier

[0] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42616
[1] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42757
[2] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41185
[3] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41166