13:32:49 <nickm> #startmeeting weekly dev meeting
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13:33:48 <nickm> anybody around?
13:33:58 <nickm> or is everybody on the net team on route to spain?
13:34:05 <nickm> en route
13:34:06 <ln5> hi
13:34:13 <nickm> hello  ln5 !
13:34:50 <nickm> ok, i'll type in a weekly update and see who else is here
13:34:56 <nickm> I've been reviewing, merging, and bugfixing.
13:35:13 <nickm> I've been trying to pack for valencia. fortunately I'm not stressed out at the moment.
13:35:53 <nickm> Today and tomorrow morning I aim to revise all my needs-revision branches that target 0.2.7 or 0.2.8, review some of the Big Branches, and squash some bugs
13:37:36 <nickm> I also need to write a bunch of concept-note stuff for isabela I think
13:37:51 <nickm> Also I should get back down to inbox 0
13:38:20 <nickm> anybody else around with an update?
13:38:31 <ln5> i can say something about my log owrk
13:38:33 <ln5> work*
13:38:36 <nickm> great
13:38:45 <ln5> i've been fixing the append-only verifiable log that one of the dirauths is submitting consensus documents to so that it accepts these somewhat bulky submissions
13:38:56 <ln5> (bulky compared to what the log originally was built for -- cert chains, ~3kB in size)
13:39:07 <ln5> so we have consensuses in a log since a couple of days! :)
13:39:13 <nickm> whoa, neat
13:39:18 <nickm> I wonder if we could do votes too
13:39:22 <ln5> i'm now updating the proposal in hope of posting it before end of my day, so that i can post some info about the log and how to use it without confusing everybody
13:39:37 <nickm> please ping me when you post it so I can give it a number.
13:39:40 <ln5> votes are pretty next on the list
13:39:44 <ln5> nickm: will do
13:39:59 <ln5> i'm posting over http now, but would like to build a circuit to an onion servicde rather
13:40:24 <ln5> if you have a pointer to where to begin, that'd be great. the path i travelled down went nowhere iirc.
13:40:46 <nickm> Where to begin in posting to an onion service?
13:40:58 <ln5> to set up a circuit to one, yes
13:41:01 <nickm> Are you doing this integrated into the tor source, or as standalone code?
13:41:08 <ln5> into the tor source
13:41:18 <ln5> we'll want this in tor relays and clients anyway
13:41:24 <nickm> Suggestion: look at how hidden services post their descriptors.
13:41:28 <ln5> and won't be able to get it out any other way
13:41:36 <nickm> oh wait, no.
13:41:37 <nickm> ug.
13:41:40 <ln5> do they post to a ... yes
13:41:45 <nickm> we don't have "post to an onion service" hacked up yet.
13:41:54 <nickm> um.  Let's look at the code together in valencia?
13:42:00 <ln5> i do post already, by pretending the log is on a dir port
13:42:13 <ln5> sure
13:42:41 <ln5> i started trying to figure out how a client builds a circuit to a hs
13:42:49 <ln5> but got lost
13:43:23 <ln5> anyway, that's about it for me
13:43:24 <nickm> So, in theory this should be workable by creating an entry connection that looks like a client's entry connection to a hidden service, but which is linked to a directory client  connection...
13:44:38 <micah> ln5: /wn go dgoulet
13:45:07 <micah> err, i meant, ln5: dgoulet has a script that will turn a fp into informative info from consensus
13:45:16 <ln5> nickm: "directory client" is not a very common term in the tor source code
13:45:19 <micah> ln5: but I'm not sure what you are looking for in the 'r' line
13:45:26 <nickm> directory connection, client-type
13:45:39 * micah stepped into a meeting, sorry *runs away*
13:45:42 <nickm> dgoulet: asn_: athena: mikeperry: isis: I bet everybody else is aleep or away?
13:45:48 <nickm> micah: you are always welcome at our meetings!
13:46:19 <micah> thanks nickm! I just should stay on topic and not just blurt out things in the middle!
13:47:32 <nickm> okay, so, I think we're kinda low on discussion for this week.
13:47:55 <nickm> no online dev meetings next week: too many people will be traveling or meeting.
13:48:01 <nickm> any discussion topics?
13:48:38 <nickm> going once!
13:48:57 <isabela> oi
13:49:55 <nickm> hi isabela !  It's just me and you and ln5 at this week's meeting.
13:49:56 <ln5> nickm: ah, dir_connection_t. i'll see if i can get around finding out how to get this working. thanks.
13:50:05 <nickm> look for phrases like "linked"
13:50:13 <nickm> isabela: anything the three of us should talk about at the meeting?
13:50:15 <nickm> this meeting?
13:50:19 <ln5> micah: he could put that in tor/contrib/ i guess
13:50:37 <micah> nickm: dont forget about me
13:50:38 <micah> :)
13:52:13 <nickm> (I thought you thought you were interrupting!)
13:52:13 <nickm> going twice!
13:52:26 <isabela> nickm: I thought todays meeting wasn't going to happen :)
13:52:36 <nickm> I showed up in case it did. :)
13:52:50 <nickm> next week's online meeting definitely won't.
13:52:55 <nickm> #endmeeting