[tor-project] intrigeri's report, October 2024

[intrigeri]

Hi,

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- Released Tails 6.8.1 (emergency) and 6.9 (on schedule)

  For the latter, I've been running an experiment, tweaking
  our release schedule in order to release soon(er) after
  Firefox and Tor Browser:
  https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20528

- Hopefully fixed a race condition that caused Upgrader failures

  https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/20593

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My focus in October was: KTLO, streamlining processes, removing
busywork, and making stuff clearer, more robust & more predictable.

Accounting
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We've been making good progress on transitioning away from the former
Tails fiscal sponsorship arrangements into Tails' new nest, the Tor
project. There's still a bunch of things to wrap up, loose ends that
need to be tied up, but I'm hopeful we should be done with the bulk of
the work (at least as far as I am concerned!) by the end of the year.

Team lead
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- Worked with sajolida on estimating how much work (dev, UX) it would
  take for Tails to take to catch up with anti-censorship tech
  (Snowflake, WebTunnel, Meek, Circumvention Settings API). We hope to
  get funding to do this work in 2026. And maybe some of it in 2025
  but don't get too excited.

- Moved most Tails Team doc to a new public wiki, to make
  collaboration with other teams & PMs smoother. I have plans to go
  further on this path but chances are this has to wait until 2025Q1.
  https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/team/-/wikis/home

- More generally, as a team lead, since July I'm still doing lots of
  work to migrate away from Tails' previous setup, but the dust is
  slowly starting to settle.

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri