[Tails-dev] Tails report for June, 2013

Hi,

here is Tails report for June, 2013.

Releases
========

Tails 0.19 was released on June 26.
<https://tails.boum.org/news/version_0.19/>

Metrics
=======

- 140 517 connections of Tails to the Tor network. This makes a boot
every 18.5 seconds on average (this is an approximation from the
requests made to the security announcements feed when Tails is
connected to Tor).

- 66 non-empty bug reports were received through WhisperBack.

- 110 comments were posted on the forum, with 32 signed by Tails,
before we closed it.

Code
====

- Tails was upgraded to Linux 3.9.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/linux-3.9>

- The feature/set-wireless-devices-state branch was
merged, eventually.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/set-wireless-devices-state>

- We tried to get in touch with the WiNoN developers. No reply so far.

- Many branches were merged just in time for the 0.19 freeze.

- Two serious bugs ere discovered while testing 0.19~rc1, and fixed
for 0.19 final. This reinforces our conviction that we should run
our test suite automatically as soon as possible.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/no_passwordless_sudo>
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/buggy_aufs_vs_unsafe-browser_workaround>

- Some solutions to get rid of the JRuby messwere experimented with.
<https://tails.boum.org/todo/test_suite:_getting_rid_of_the_jruby_mess/>

- Access restriction to ptrace was updated for the upcoming
Debian kernel.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/restrict-access-to-ptrace>

- The Iceweasel warning when leaving HTTPS was disabled. Thanks to
winterfairy for the initial patch.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/dont-warn-when-leaving-https>

- The wrong search engine bug was fixed.
<https://tails.boum.org/todo/fix_localized_iceweasel_search_engine/>
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/localized-iceweasel-search-engine>

- Git over HTTPS was fixed.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/git-https>

- All Pidgin protocols but IRC and Jabber/XMPP were disabled.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/less-pidgin-code>

- The WhisperBack help was partly updated.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/update_whisperback_help>

- Information about Alsa was added to WhisperBack reports.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/alsa-info-in-bug-reports>

- The "remember additional packages" feature was adapted to work with
newer live-boot.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=bugfix/new_persistence_location>

Documentation and Website
=========================

- We closed the forum.
<https://tails.boum.org/forum/>

- We decided not to follow Tor to StackExchange yet. We need more time
to decide what we will do, now that our previously preferred option
was discarded.

- The release process was automated a bit. So was our custom Iceweasel
package release process.

Localization and Internationalization
=====================================

- Our POT files were merged first, and then we intltoolize'd our
translation system. This should help pushing these strings to
Transifex.
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/merge-pot-files>
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/log/?h=feature/intltoolize>

On-going discussions
====================

- Flashproxy
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003121.html>

- Accessibility for blind and visually impaired users
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003135.html>

- Making the boot medium read-only
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003139.html>

- Wrong MIME type returned for ISO signatures
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003200.html>

- Download over HTTP by default?
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003211.html>

- Network fingerprint
<https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-June/003216.html>

Infrastructure
==============

- Our Git repositories are now allhosted in a central place.
Thanks a lot to immerda.ch for their continued support!
<https://git-tails.immerda.ch/>
<https://tails.boum.org/contribute/git/>

- We worked on improving backups for our infrastructure.

Funding
=======

- We kept working on funding with sponsor Foxtrot.

- We are working on short-term funding with sponsor Bravo.

- The way we will contract bounty hunters was rebooted. Stay tuned.

Cheers,
--
Tails folks