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13:33:44 <nickm> good morning everyone!
13:33:48 <nickm> good morning, MeetBot
13:34:35 <dgoulet> hi!
13:34:37 <athena> greetings putative humans!
13:34:38 <nickm> so, I've been scrambling to resolve stuff, to get patches merged, and to get 0.2.7 put to bed.
13:34:38 <isabela> morning!
13:35:10 <nickm> I think we've only got a few things left to do before we put out the last alpha
13:35:22 <nickm> so, time for testing, working on changelog, etc
13:35:43 <nickm> also I'm trying to gear up for the start of 028, and get progress made on closing/reviving old proposals
13:35:51 <nickm> isis has helped there a bunch too, which roxx
13:37:04 <nickm> also I've been writing tech documentation, which is a pita
13:37:12 <nickm> and I ope I can finish some first drafts soon
13:37:17 <nickm> who's got next status?
13:38:51 <nickm> anybody with an update?
13:38:55 <dgoulet> quite fast for me, R planning and logistics, recovering a bit from a dead laptop and lots and lots of prop#250
13:38:57 <athena> dragging through the last bits of #4581 (hash tables of counters for cases involving DIRIND_ONEHOP and DIRIND_DIRECT_CONN, and purging old counters that drop near zero)
13:39:02 <nickm> here's a fun thought for 028 planning, btw: https://twitter.com/casio_juarez/status/640874662130397184
13:39:40 <athena> this points the way toward "we should build a generic EWMA module and refactor both this and circuitmux_ewma.c to use it", but not dragging this out any longer on that, so i'll file a new ticket to do that one
13:40:03 <nickm> +1
13:40:12 <nickm> wow, 028 is going to have a lot of stuff in it.
13:40:29 <nickm> I wonder if we could all commit to taking a week or two for nothing but code review
13:40:35 <nickm> because there's so much backlog
13:41:09 <athena> no objections to getting some code reviews knocked off for a while
13:41:47 <nickm> anybody else got an update?
13:42:15 <asn_> hello.
13:42:24 <asn_> been busy with proposals. mike's guard proposals. and prop250.
13:42:32 <asn_> also some logistics for sponsorr.
13:42:35 <asn_> and preparing for the dev meeting trip.
13:42:42 <asn_> looking forward to see all of you in a few days
13:42:55 <asn_> dgoulet: i'm reading your email now.
13:43:45 <nickm> I need to find a way to get myself focusing on open proposals more
13:44:02 <nickm> I wonder if periodic design workshops, like our patch workshops would be a good idea
13:44:09 <nickm> I also wonder if it makes  sense to add another patch workshop time
13:45:17 <dgoulet> workshop could work to make *you* focus, not guarantee for the others :)
13:45:32 <nickm> hmm
13:45:39 <nickm> ok, let's look for other ideas too
13:45:47 <nickm> anybody else around for an update?
13:45:55 <nickm> Yawning, teor, anybody?
13:46:00 <nickm> isabela?
13:46:12 <nickm> otherwise we can just move on to discussion
13:46:44 <isabela> hi
13:47:22 <isabela> I added a summary of the 0.2.7 release / just looking on tickets metadata not the features itself
13:47:43 <nickm> looks good
13:47:46 <nickm> okay to link it here?
13:48:14 <isabela> https://storm.torproject.org/shared/fH1bqHY1C1spsaOqB-16RxzCw2tpl4sBwfa-E9ShNSw
13:48:20 <isabela> sure
13:48:43 <isabela> is to serve us for retrospective and as we plan 0.2.8
13:48:44 <Yawning> everything is on fire
13:50:06 * teor is here
13:50:22 <teor> I fixed up some minor config and test issues
13:51:06 <teor> Then fixed #17027 and #16069 about Exit Policies
13:51:46 <teor> And, as a side note, got a blog post published with Electronic Frontiers Australia about the .onion registration
13:51:52 <teor> https://www.efa.org.au/2015/09/14/ietf-approves-onion/
13:52:22 <teor> And I'm having ongoing discussions with CloudFlare about their infinite CAPTCHAs (also via EFA)
13:52:48 <teor> Oh, and Australia will have mandatory data retention in about 4 weeks :-(
13:52:57 <nickm> most of that stuff is cool; that latter thing is less so
13:53:38 <teor> We're trying to work out if Tor nodes have retention obligations, because that would suck
13:54:24 <teor> Not that there's that much available data to retain due to the Tor protocol's design...
13:54:30 <nickm> have you got a proper lawyer working with you on that?
13:55:04 <teor> EFA has a working group - I believe they have lawyers and law professors
13:55:11 <nickm> great
13:55:21 <teor> Until then, time to move my AWS stuff out of AU
13:55:40 <isabela> :/
13:55:44 <teor> Anyway, done
13:55:59 <Yawning> doing pt evals
13:56:06 <Yawning> while my country shits itself
13:56:22 <Yawning> the opposition errected a barricade in our parliment equivalent building
13:56:30 <Yawning> it is a total fucking zoo
13:57:30 <nickm> are we on-track for PT deliverables for sponsorS getting done end-of-month, or should we jump in to assist?
13:58:01 <nickm> resisting the end of democracy sounds important, so we should pitch in to help with other stuff while you're busy with that
13:59:12 <isabela> hmm
13:59:36 <nickm> Yawning: ^
14:00:05 <Yawning> it should be ok
14:00:14 <Yawning> depends on how interesting things get
14:00:23 <nickm> ok
14:01:11 <isabela> i got an email from jon yesterday / answering the roadmap document merge question
14:01:30 <nickm> any action needed there?
14:02:14 <isabela> no
14:02:22 <nickm> ok
14:02:24 <isabela> i can chat with Yawning off the meeting
14:02:29 <nickm> sounds good
14:02:44 <nickm> don't hesitate to pull me in for any doc stuff; I hate it, but I can do it reasonably fast
14:03:18 * isabela has a question to the team how it is going for U (ends oct 31st) / maybe off this meeting too
14:03:34 <Yawning> isabela: is it ok to merge it?
14:04:03 <isabela> Yawning: you can go ahead with that plan they want something else tho which I can write and get ppl to review /me thinks
14:04:15 <nickm> isabela: I think that we're on-track with that U stuff, but if anybody could take _any_ of it off me, things will go so much easier
14:04:21 <nickm> I'm going to be dedicating a lot of time to it
14:05:00 <Yawning> ok
14:05:05 <Yawning> we'll talk in a bit?
14:05:28 <isabela> Yawning: yes after this meeting works?
14:05:33 <isabela> nickm: cool tx!
14:06:47 <Yawning> isabela: yah
14:07:02 <nickm> ao, any other discussion topics for today? I'm fairly low other than "let's get 0.2.7 out", "let's get 0.2.8 started", and "let's get more pending proposals sorted out"
14:08:07 <dgoulet> nickm: what do you mean by "pending proposal sorted out" ?
14:08:45 <nickm> we've got a lot of proposals that are in states like "open" or "draft" or "needs-revision"
14:08:55 <dgoulet> ah
14:08:57 <nickm> I want to get as much stuff as possible "accepted" or "rejected"
14:09:15 <nickm> or "superseded" or even "on-reserve"
14:10:03 <teor> It would be so much easier if someone would just decide. Consensus building is so messy and protracted :-)
14:10:32 <nickm> I'm all too willing to be benevolent dictator...
14:10:55 <nickm> so my proposed strategy has been : just make the easy choices myself, invite folks to object, and then discuss the harder stuff
14:10:59 <nickm> does that sound ok?
14:11:22 <teor> Works for me
14:11:39 <dgoulet> nickm: yes, maybe ticket for accepted proposal?
14:11:53 <nickm> sounds good
14:12:09 <nickm> also we ought to have an inventory of accepted proposals, and keep it more or less small
14:12:18 <nickm> I'm using "reserve" as a status that I might rename
14:13:04 <nickm> basically it means "Not going to evaluate this proposal because we're not doing this any time soon, but maybe we can come back to this later if we decide we do want to do it"
14:14:06 <dgoulet> "Good idea proposal if time", :)
14:14:25 <isabela> oh!
14:14:39 <isabela> the proposals reorg! sorry i forgot i sign off to do that
14:14:52 <nickm> no worries
14:15:32 <isabela> will do tho
14:16:16 <nickm> anything else for today?
14:17:09 <dgoulet> wild question:
14:17:18 <dgoulet> do we have (want) an agenda for Berlin?
14:17:23 <dgoulet> or we go "all out gunner"
14:17:24 <dgoulet> ?
14:17:42 <isabela> great question!
14:17:43 <nickm> we're doing all out gunner for 2 days. I'm gonna try to do the rest as optional unconference/hackfest
14:17:49 <isabela> 2 things that is on the agenda for sure
14:17:56 <isabela> 1. roadmaps building like we did in valencia
14:17:57 <nickm> we should try to get agenda to gunner
14:18:08 <isabela> 2. retrospective of network team and the vegas plan
14:18:20 <nickm> yup
14:18:25 <isabela> actually there is a third we spoke of
14:18:29 <isabela> the 0.2.8 triage
14:19:14 <nickm> yeah. Not sure that needs to be during gunnertime or unconference time
14:19:30 <isabela> yeah
14:19:38 <dgoulet> we should try NOT to have a "core tor" group in Berlin like Valencia (or have it a different purpose/name), I and asn missed most of the core tor session because we had an HS session
14:19:43 <dgoulet> and then TBB can't join it also
14:19:44 <isabela> 1 and 2 are gunnertime and 0.2.8 can be on open time
14:19:47 <nickm> yeah
14:20:03 <nickm> I think unconference rather than splitting up by group makes most sense
14:20:14 <dgoulet> +1
14:20:31 <isabela> cool /me can help organize that
14:20:39 <nickm> woot
14:20:46 <isabela> i will send an email to tor-dev letting ppl know this will happen on open time
14:20:59 <nickm> woo
14:21:05 <dgoulet> great
14:21:11 <nickm> also we should make sure we enable participation for all our online friends
14:21:14 <nickm> anything else for this meeting?
14:21:17 <dgoulet> before Berlin, good idea because I already have some session planned :)
14:21:35 <isabela> we can have ppl tagging tickets
14:22:15 <nickm> woo
14:22:19 <nickm> +1
14:22:28 <nickm> ending meeting in 60 sec  unless new topics?
14:23:04 <isabela> <3 libraries
14:23:05 <isabela> :P
14:23:11 <nickm> +lots
14:23:33 <dgoulet> indeed
14:23:37 <dgoulet> all good for me
14:23:38 <nickm> #endmeeting!