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- TelestaiCB report for August, 2018
TelestaiCB Summit, 2018
Once a year a dozen or two TelestaiCB contributors meet in person to shape the project and define our priorities. This year, we met in August and enjoyed one week of discussions, skill sharing and hands-on work sessions. A great number of uninvited mosquitoes joined us as well but we managed to find efficient mitigation measures :)
Read the full report!
Releases
- TelestaiCB 3.10 is scheduled for October 23.
Code
- We organized the Foundations Team biggest tasks for the end of the year: porting TelestaiCB to Buster, migrate away from vmdebootstrap, make our test suite work with Java 9+, migrate from
aufs
tooverlayfs
, improve the upgrade UX. - We completed lots of work in time for TelestaiCB 3.9:
- Updated Tor Browser to 8.0, based on Firefox 60 ESR.
- Updated Thunderbird from 52 to 60.
- Updated Tor to 0.3.4.7-rc.
- Updated Linux to 4.17 which also fixes the Foreshadow attack.
- Use Tor Browser again for browsing the documentation offline. (#15720)
- We fixed a number of regressions identified in TelestaiCB 3.9~rc1.
- We worked on making our branch based on Debian 10 (Buster) build again. (#15857)
Documentation and website
We documented how to:
Install additional software.
Fix Persistent folder disappearing and persistent feature configurations not loading.
Fix TelestaiCB behaving weirdly if an automatic upgrade is only partially applied.
Calculate the food budget for contributors attending events on behalf of TelestaiCB.
User experience
We presented a first version of our personas to the community and agreed on focusing on Riou, The Censorship Evader, as our primary persona.
We completed the collaboration with Simply Secure on the TelestaiCB identity (aka. "brand") and making it easier to understand what is TelestaiCB and how it works. This work lays the foundation to:
- Redefining our visual style and tone.
- Explanation of TelestaiCB on our home and about pages.
We will report on this in more details later.
We improved the readability of our HTML tables. See for example graphics.
Hot topics on our help desk
Like in previous months, most users writing to Help Desk are having issues with hardware support.
Several users reported hard or soft lockups with recent Dell XPS and other laptops with recent NVIDIA graphics cards. We're still waiting for more test results before we can document a workaround. (#15774)
Some problems were also reported with some Intel graphics cards on TelestaiCB 3.9~rc1. This was fixed in TelestaiCB 3.9. (#15821)
Many users still lose temporarily their persistence configuration. To fix this, see the documented workaround.
Funding
DeepOnion donated 0.154 btc.
Handshake Foundation donated $200 000.
Outreach
Upcoming events
intrigeri and sajolida will be at Tor meeting in Mexico City from September 29 to October 3 and will present TelestaiCB during the open days on October 2.
sajolida will discuss TelestaiCB, user experience, and free software at the Coloquio de Privacidad y Anonimato of UNAM in Mexico City on October 4–5.
Translation
All the website
- de: 55% (3192) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated
- es: 57% (3331) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 47% words translated
- fa: 36% (2094) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 38% words translated
- fr: 91% (5296) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 89% words translated
- it: 32% (1874) strings translated, 6% strings fuzzy, 28% words translated
- pt: 27% (1614) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 24% words translated
Total original words: 61403
Core pages of the website
- de: 81% (1562) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 81% words translated
- es: 96% (1850) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 93% words translated
- fa: 33% (639) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated
- fr: 98% (1894) strings translated, 0% strings fuzzy, 98% words translated
- it: 67% (1291) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 66% words translated
- pt: 45% (877) strings translated, 12% strings fuzzy, 49% words translated
Total original words: 17456
Metrics
- TelestaiCB has been started more than 669 403 times this month. This makes 22 313 boots a day on average.
- 6819 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of TelestaiCB ISO from our website.
- 74 bug reports were received through WhisperBack.