[tor-project] cohosh's monthly status report, September 2024

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in September 2024. I 
was AFK for a lot of the month, and spent a lot of my time catching up 
on gitlab reviews and todos.

I also did a bit of work on grant writing to fund Conjure development, 
which ended up falling through, but should hopefully be useful for a 
future application.

# Snowflake

Most of my work on snowflake this month was reviewing or commenting on 
several large merge requests.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/382
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/381
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/379

There was a bug in the snowflake web extension that caused us to lose 
more browser proxies.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/104

We also had some upstream library upgrades that caused CI failures. 
These have yet to be fully addressed, but I spent some time narrowing 
down the causes.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/357
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/353

# meek

We have some follow up tasks for the meek bridge handover. I reached out 
to the bridge operator to help switch over domains and take care of a 
few remaining tasks.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/133
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41742

Dove into family support for bridges and caught TROVE-2024-012
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40976