tor/doc/TODO.external

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SPEC!!  - Not specified
SPEC    - Spec not finalized
N       - nick claims
R       - arma claims
P       - phobos claims
S       - Steven claims
E       - Matt claims
M       - Mike claims
J       - Jeff claims
I       - ioerror claims
W       - weasel claims
K       - Karsten claims
C       - coderman claims
        - Not done
        * Top priority
        . Partially done
        o Done
        d Deferrable
        D Deferred
        X Abandoned

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External constraints:

Past due:
N   - Refine proposal 158, and implement.

For June/July:
NR  - Work more on Paul's NRL research problem.

For March 22:
I   * Email auto-responder
      * How do we better support users with limited email
        bandwidth? Multi-part download? Teach them how to reconnect
        their gmail? Does downloading your gmail work when your network
        keeps dying?

K   - Metrics.
      - With Mike's help, use Torflow to start doing monthly rudimentary
        performance evaluations:
        - Circuit throughput and latency
        - Measure via Broadband and dialup
      - Publish a report addressing key long-term metrics questions:
        - What metrics should we present?
        - What data are available for these metrics?
        - What data are missing, and can collect them safely? Can we
          publish them safely?
        - What systems are available to present this data?

E   - Vidalia improvements
      - Put out a Vidalia release with the new features in it.
      - Vidalia displays by-country user summary for bridge operators
?       - write a help page for vidalia, "what is this"

M   - Torbutton development
      - Put out a Torbutton release with the new features in it.

C   - Transparent interception of connections on Windows
      - Write a summary (with links) of current progress and current
        limitations.

S   - Continue analyzing "traces" left on host machine by use of
      Tor Browser, especially once we have our new launcher and have moved
      to FF3. Write a summary of current progress, and what remains. Try
      to solve some of the low-hanging fruit.

I   d Get a relay operator mailing list going, with a plan and supporting
      scripts and so on.