1 [[!meta date="Thu Aug 13 09:09:39 2013"]]
2 [[!meta title="Tails report for July, 2013"]]
9 Five developers met for our annual summit. The summit was less dense
10 than last year but still very productive. See the [[detailed
11 report|news/summit_2013]].
16 There was no release in July. Tails 0.20 [is
17 planned](https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-July/003292.html)
18 for the 9th of August.
23 - 151 657 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
24 every 17.7 seconds on average. This is an approximation from the
25 requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is
28 - 77 non-empty bug reports were received through WhisperBack.
33 - We had two low-hanging fruits sessions, that were mostly used to
34 review and merge pending branches.
36 - A lot of work has been done to [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/wheezy
37 desc="migrate to Debian Wheezy"]]:
39 - A first build of Tails based on Debian Wheezy version was tested,
40 and many bugs [[!tails_ticket 6015 desc="were identified"]].
42 - The work on AppArmor was [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/apparmor
43 desc="continued"]]. An early upstream patch that aims to add support
44 for stacked filesystems [[!tails_ticket 6199 desc="was tested"]].
46 - The included Linux kernel was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
47 feature/linux-3.10 desc="updated"]] to 3.10-1.
49 - A deprecation wrapper for Truecrypt was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
50 feature/truecrypt_deprecation_wrapper desc="written"]]. Many thanks to Julien
51 Voisin for providing patches.
53 - Dasher, a graphical predictive text input system, was
54 [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/install-dasher desc="installed"]].
56 - The Wikileaks IRC server address was [[!tails_gitweb_branch
57 bugfix/wikileaks_irc desc="tentatively fixed"]]. Many thanks to Julien
58 Voisin for providing patches. User interface issues have prevented us from
59 merging this branch yet.
61 - Claws mail will [[!tails_gitweb_commit
62 7a293bbc41766c4ba32e229acb862eabe05d05ce desc="no more display a
63 dialog box"]] when sending a message. Many thanks to matsa for
66 - Many [[!tails_gitweb_branch feature/remember_installed_packages
67 desc="improvements"]] to additional software have been merged.
69 - A bunch of improvements to our test suite were proposed and
71 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/fix-persistence-checks]],
72 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/reorg]],
73 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/firewall-check-tag]],
74 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/keep-volumes-tag]] and
75 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/fix-iso-reporting]].
77 Documentation and Website
78 =========================
80 - The [[Promote|contribute/how/promote]] page was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
81 c8f80ebb18a6077feacbf00e7c31a19a99b22648 desc="fully rewritten"]].
83 - A new page [[Website|contribute/how/website]] on how to improve the
84 Tails website was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
85 fb9135c3ba1cbb974f9ab3bf596d17ce03803e4a desc="added to the contribute
88 - The page [[Translate|contribute/how/translate]] was
89 [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/either_git_or_transifex desc="reworked in
90 depth"]] to match our new translation workflow using either Git or
93 - The [[Pidgin|doc/anonymous_internet/pidgin]] documentation was
94 [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/better-pidgin-and-otr-documentation
95 desc="was fully rewritten"]].
97 - The [[homepage|index]] was [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/circumvention
98 desc="rephrased"]] to mention Internet circumvention.
100 - Our Tor enforcement policy was [[!tails_gitweb_commit
101 e0dba123f20e0df72ac723510b6fba093a1a29d7 desc="clarified"]] on the
102 [[About|about]] page.
104 - The OpenPGP signature to verify the ISO images is now
105 [[!tails_gitweb_branch doc/fix_signature_link desc="served directly
108 - A prototype conversion of our test suite to use
109 [[!tails_gitweb_branch test/rjb-migration
110 desc="native ruby + rjb instead of JRuby"]] was pushed to Git.
112 Localization and Internationalization
113 =====================================
115 - All Tails strings but the website are now translatable in Transifex.
116 - i18nspector was uploaded to wheezy-backports.
121 - Our todo list items were [[!tails_redmine desc="migrated to Redmine"]].
123 - Blueprints were extracted from our old todo section into the new
124 [[Blueprint|blueprint]] section to store our research and plans in a
125 static form outside of Redmine.
127 - Criterion to flag a task as easy were
128 [[identified|contribute/working_together/criteria_for_easy_tasks]] as
129 a way to orientate better new contributors.
131 - Our roadmap was updated and we defined our objectives for Tails 1.0,
134 - [Tails 1.0](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/roadmap#Tails 1.0): feature parity with Incognito
135 - [Tails 1.1](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/roadmap#Tails 1.1): Tails based on Debian Wheezy
136 - [Tails 2.0](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/roadmap#Tails 2.0): Sustainability and maintainability
137 - [Tails 3.0](https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/roadmap#Tails 3.0): Hardening and better security
139 - We started working on making our infrastructure more reliable:
140 [[!tails_ticket 6185 desc="looking for a system"]] that could act as
141 a fail-over for our main server.
146 - A short-term funding with sponsor Bravo has been tentatively confirmed and
147 redefined, but not signed yet.
149 - The contracts for the bounty program are still being signed. But some
150 work has already been done and tested on Seahorse Nautilus, AppArmor,
151 ikiwiki to Redmine, keyringer and libvirt.
153 - We sent a concept note to answer sponsor Charlie's call