16:59:14 <donuts> #startmeeting UX Team Weekly Meeting 16:59:14 <MeetBot> Meeting started Tue Mar 15 16:59:14 2022 UTC. The chair is donuts. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 16:59:14 <MeetBot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 16:59:20 <donuts> hello everyone! 16:59:25 <nicob> hellooo o/ 16:59:27 <donuts> and welcome to this week's UX team meeting 16:59:28 <championquizzer> hello o/ 16:59:42 <donuts> nah is on her way and will be joining shortly :) 16:59:53 <donuts> the pad (as always) is here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ux-team-2022-keep 17:00:02 <donuts> please add any items you'd like to discuss to the agenda 17:01:17 <donuts> Otherwise, there has been a sudden flurry of releases the past week – mostly due to Mozilla's security advisory 17:01:43 <donuts> we'll be following those up with further releases for desktop (and possibly android?) to patch a couple of bugs in the previous two versions 17:01:54 <donuts> likely by the end of the week 17:02:10 <donuts> and that's it for announcements 17:02:13 <championquizzer> yep, 4 updates in the last week 17:02:16 <championquizzer> nice! 17:02:30 <donuts> so many updates! 17:02:43 <donuts> let's take the next few minutes to fill out the weekly planning section of the pad 17:03:11 <donuts> reminder to please highlight anything you'd like to discuss in bold, and check and update the team kanban if necessary too 17:03:23 <donuts> https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX%20Team 17:06:20 <donuts> btw hi sweet-curator! 17:06:26 <donuts> just noticed you in the pad :) 17:06:27 <sweet-curator> Hi! 17:06:53 <donuts> I got your email, sorry I haven't had the chance to reply yet! 17:06:59 <donuts> (I was afk yesterday and am still catching up) 17:07:19 <sweet-curator> No worries! 17:07:24 <nah> o/ 17:08:02 <nah> i'm still catching up with emails as well 17:08:15 <nicob> hi nah o/ 17:08:32 <donuts> Nah: Imauri would like to run a user research session for Tor (is that right Imauri?) 17:08:42 <donuts> Imauri = sweet-curator :) 17:09:03 <sweet-curator> Yes! 17:09:16 <sweet-curator> Assist in helping plan research and conduct 17:09:24 <donuts> that sounds great! 17:09:30 <nah> that's great! 17:09:36 <donuts> I think we sent you all the onboarding materials before, yep? 17:09:37 <nah> we have some research on going 17:09:44 <sweet-curator> Yes 17:09:47 <donuts> https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ 17:09:49 <donuts> right 17:10:21 <sweet-curator> There's a few project in the Kanban I felt like I could be helpful in. The tactical research (e.g. usability testing) 17:10:21 <donuts> I can CC nah into our email thread and we can figure out the particulars there (or on a quick call) :) 17:10:29 <sweet-curator> Sounds good 17:10:33 <sweet-curator> Thank you 17:10:37 <donuts> which one's that, sorry sweet-curator? 17:11:02 <sweet-curator> Dropped them in the pad 17:11:19 <sweet-curator> :) 17:11:19 * donuts is checking 17:12:24 <donuts> great, nah can help us pick a research subject (she's got a few topics up her sleeve atm) 17:13:09 <sweet-curator> 👍 17:13:54 <nah> great, i'll follow up with you sweet-curator 17:13:57 <nah> thanks, donuts 17:14:05 <donuts> it looks like we don't have anything in bold in the pad, so are we good to continue with the agenda? 17:14:39 <nah> yess 17:14:54 <nicob> yep 17:15:09 <donuts> okay championquizzer, how are you doing this week? ^^ 17:15:26 <championquizzer> posted some updates on the pad, but here goes: 17:15:44 <championquizzer> lot of user reports for fenix#40212 17:15:53 <donuts> yep, that's a shame 17:16:11 <championquizzer> application's team is aware of the issue and i can see a lot of progress on the ticket 17:16:20 <donuts> a consequence of firing out the stable too soon to patch the security advisory I think :/ 17:16:35 <championquizzer> updates for users: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-8-android/2527/3 17:16:39 <donuts> how many is "a lot", out of interest? 17:17:11 <championquizzer> about 5-6 on RT, several on #tor 17:17:16 <donuts> got it 17:17:28 <championquizzer> someone pointed me the reddit thread - a few there 17:17:42 <championquizzer> oh and the forum 17:18:14 <donuts> so many support channels lol 17:18:31 <championquizzer> (i haven't looked at play store reviews) ;) 17:19:00 <donuts> next stable release should be around the 24th 17:19:03 <donuts> which isn't long 17:19:16 <donuts> (android's going to be getting more frequent updates going forward) 17:19:41 <championquizzer> sounds good! 17:19:53 <donuts> I'm not treating this as an emergency since restarting the app seems to work as a workaround – do you think that's okay? 17:20:03 <donuts> emergency = special release asap 17:20:37 <championquizzer> sure, the workaround seems to work (multiple relaunches in some cases) 17:20:47 <donuts> got it 17:21:11 <championquizzer> ok, next topic, following up about the issue with a number of user .ru stuck with 11.0.4 because they can't update easily 17:21:34 <championquizzer> we published this: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-browser-11-0-7/2484 17:21:57 <donuts> <3 17:21:59 <championquizzer> in russian (basically 'how to check what version of TB?' and 'old TB, what to do?') 17:22:20 <championquizzer> gettor download links will be updated soon i believe 17:22:30 <donuts> so essentially autoupdates are totally blocked? 17:22:40 <donuts> and they'll need to update manually going forward? 17:22:57 <nah> oh no 17:23:05 <championquizzer> if they cannot connect to Tor, TB will not auto-update (i believe) 17:23:19 <donuts> oh it's due to being unable to connect, got it 17:23:37 <championquizzer> yes 17:23:48 <championquizzer> TB pings https://aus1.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_3/release/downloads.json 17:23:55 <championquizzer> to check for updates i think 17:25:19 <championquizzer> that's all the updates from last week :) 17:25:23 <championquizzer> thanks 17:25:36 <donuts> great, thanks championquizzer! 17:25:38 <nah> thank you, championquizzer 17:25:43 * donuts checks the agenda... 17:27:13 <donuts> One quick update from me: 17:27:37 <donuts> I've been focussing on Tor Browser 11.5 & sponsor 96 over the last two weeks 17:27:53 <donuts> I expect it'll still demand most of my attention this and next week too 17:28:30 <donuts> so, other projects will just have to wait a little – I need to keep things moving for Tor Browser and prevent myself blocking the devs so we can get the most recent dev work into the next Alpha (in April) 17:29:01 <donuts> okay I think that's everything 17:29:12 <donuts> any last comments or Qs before I close the meeting? 17:29:38 <nah> i'm ok, thank you :) 17:29:43 <nicob> I'm good! 17:29:58 <donuts> thanks everyone for coming, and I hope you all have a good week! 17:29:58 * championquizzer too. thanks all o/ 17:30:02 <donuts> #endmeeting