17:59:37 <sysrqb> #startmeeting Tor Browser Release Meeting 4 August 2020 17:59:37 <MeetBot> Meeting started Tue Aug 4 17:59:37 2020 UTC. The chair is sysrqb. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 17:59:37 <MeetBot> Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 18:00:58 <sysrqb> anyone here? antonela acat GeKo 18:01:39 <GeKo> somewhat 18:01:48 <sysrqb> hello! 18:02:17 <sysrqb> we don't have much for discussion today 18:03:16 <sysrqb> but antonela asked if we can create a list of issues we plan on fixing and/or including in the next alpha release (before the alpha release) 18:05:03 <GeKo> toolchain issues and anything that comes from the proxy/feature audit 18:05:18 <GeKo> i don't think we'll get to anything else 18:05:30 <GeKo> maybe even not the feature audit stuff 18:05:36 <GeKo> apart from flipping some prefs 18:05:45 <GeKo> given the importance of mobile work 18:05:55 * antonela is here! 18:06:18 <sysrqb> we have a comment on the pad: 18:06:21 <sysrqb> "(as cypherpunks, banned, but not dead, we warn tbb-team that ESR68.11 is the last Fennec release.)" 18:06:26 <sysrqb> https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-browser-release-meeting-keep 18:06:37 <tjr> that sounds correct 18:07:41 <sysrqb> (added on July 28) 18:07:44 <acat> hi 18:07:48 <sysrqb> o/ 18:08:36 <sysrqb> at this point, our only option is continuing to release fennec-based updates based on 68.12.0esr 18:09:16 <sysrqb> i think that is better than not the stable android tor browser until the end of september 18:09:19 <GeKo> like we did in the old days 18:09:29 <sysrqb> even if it's not officially maintained for a month 18:09:39 <sysrqb> yeah 18:11:34 <sysrqb> okay 18:12:02 <sysrqb> we're planning a desktop alpha release within the next two weeks 18:12:33 <sysrqb> and then we have 68.12esr on 25 Aug 18:13:00 <sysrqb> i expect we'll have another alpha release mid-september 18:13:19 <sysrqb> so we can get as many bugs fixed before TB 10 becomes stable on 22 September 18:14:37 <sysrqb> anyone have any topics they want to discuss? 18:15:31 <sysrqb> if not, then ihave a lot of work to do :) 18:15:54 <acat> not from my side 18:16:01 <sysrqb> antonela: alsmith ? 18:16:04 <antonela> im groot, september 22 is stable 10.0 -- we should have the EOY planned for that date 18:16:30 <antonela> and also a first phase of the iteration we want in boostrapping / tor launcher 18:17:16 <sysrqb> for EOY, we'll need those changes by 8 Setpember 18:17:20 <sysrqb> that's not a hard deadline 18:17:29 <sysrqb> but we need time for implementatoin and localization 18:17:35 <antonela> right 18:17:40 <antonela> not sure when tbb devs capacity have been planned as part of s30 18:17:50 <sysrqb> and that only gives us 1 week before we begin building 18:18:17 <antonela> is not enough for l10n, but lets see 18:18:20 <sysrqb> i'm not very optimistic we'll have time for working on tor-launcher before 10.0 stable 18:18:36 <antonela> okey, is good to know 18:18:56 <sysrqb> but that will definitely begin soon after 22 September 18:19:07 <antonela> got it 18:19:08 <sysrqb> because s58 wil be mostly complete by then (ha!) :/ 18:19:14 <antonela> i hope! 18:19:19 <sysrqb> me too. 18:19:19 <antonela> (: 18:19:56 * antonela is groot 18:20:29 <sysrqb> okay, thanks everyone! 18:20:37 <sysrqb> #endmeeting