Tor-related work that the Pearl Crescent team (Kathy Brade and me) did
in March:
* Participated in the weekly TBB dev meetings on IRC and spent some
time observing the PT meetings.
* Made more progress on using the Firefox-based updater for TBB. We:
- Rebased our patches to accommodate the new Mozilla git repo.
- Posted to tbb-dev and discussed a proposal to change the TBB
directory structure to be more like Firefox's. Doing this will
simplify our updater patches and solve other problems (e.g.,
dock icon issues on Mac OS). We are experimenting with these
changes and so far the results are promising.
- Posted to tbb-dev and discussed a proposal to use the major
Firefox version number in our TBB version numbers. This also
would simplify our updater patches. For now, we are not
pursuing this due to various unresolved issues and the potential
for user confusion.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4234
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6457
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2014-March/000027.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2014-March/000028.html
* Worked with Mike and others to add more polish to the "Use Default
Bridges" option within Tor Launcher (TBB 3.6). The user interface
will be improved in the future based on feedback received.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10418
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11180
* Landed a Firefox patch to add a "get current process ID" API that is
used by Tor Launcher.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=962314
* Spent time triaging and addressing various Tor Launcher issues in
a continuing effort to add polish to that extension and to make
make life easier for the support team. Some issues we made
contributions to:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11199
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11132
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11191
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11343
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11347
* Assisted with various TBB 3.6b1 / PT issues, including:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10398
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11124
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11193
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11200
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11242
Plans for April (same as March):
* Contribute to the TBB 3.6 in whatever way we can.
* Make more progress on 4234 (Firefox-based updater for TBB).
* Continue the efforts to add polish to Tor Launcher.
--
Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/
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