cut out a lot of the external todo items, since they're done

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doc/TODO.external

@@ -25,87 +25,24 @@ C       - coderman claims
 
 External constraints:
 
-  - mid January
+Past due:
-W   - Finish testing, debugging, unit testing, etc the directory overhead
+N   - Refine proposal 158, and implement.
-      changes. Have it in the development version and in use.
-      o Roger writes a proposal unifying the or-dev discussions
-?     * Somebody implements the proposal. Who?
-E   - Implement KDE Marble into Vidalia.  In order to improve the user
-      interface for easier understanding of circuits and where traffic
-      travels, replacing the current Vidalia map with KDE's Marble
-      is desired.  KDE's Marble widget gives a better quality map and
-      enables improved interactivity.  This is the first step in allowing
-      users to choose an exit country, or being able to interact with
-      Tor circuits in new ways.
 
-  - end of January
+For June/July:
-    - Write first draft of research study for Paul's research problem.
+NR  - Work more on Paul's NRL research problem.
-R     - Get the stuff in the wiki into a "report" we can show some
-        bureaucrat, for phase one.
-I   - Periodic summaries of localization progress: both pootle and wml.
-
-  - mid February
-S   * Examine current load balancing issues and evaluate trade-offs
-      associated with other methods.
-      - For each potential routing improvement strategy...
-        - Explain method, calculate theoretical impact, estimate likely
-          impact, prioritize
-        - Establish implementation work plan
-        - Document strategy for metrics and evaluation
-      - Highlight which items on your list are doable in 2009.
-
-N   - Write a summary of progress toward Overlapped I/O on Windows.
-
-S   - Write a summary of progress toward understanding risks to relays
-      (and thus bridges) from letting attackers route traffic through
-      them. Eg, if relays have 100KB/s but set relaybandwidthrate to
-      10KB/s, do your interference attacks still work?
-
-    o Revise and publish incentive draft paper
-      o Write an explanation for its current flaws
-      . Gather comments, search for new designs
-      o Write up a summary of recommendations and next steps
-
-W   - Download fewer descriptors
-      - Summarize progress so far, on all the different approaches to
-        reducing directory download overhead.
-        - Measure/estimate impact of each improvement.
-      - Build a plan and timeline for implementing the rest.
-
-N   - TLS arms race: Produce a list of likely avenues for blocking,
-      and for each avenue summarize a plan for how we should respond to
-      get Tor unblocked again.
 
+For March 22:
 I   * Email auto-responder
-      - Document the design and spec.
-        - Describe auto-responder "commands"
-        - Describe DKIM requirement (and alternatives)
-        - Describe how we're going to localize the text
-      - Describe the workflow for a user that wants to know she's got
-        the right file. Digitally signed installer? Feed it to the
-        updater that recognizes signatures? Other options?
       * 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.
-      * Gather and document monthly usage metrics, by country
-        - Using Roger's old method of counting users
-        - Using Nick's new method of counting users
-        - Start playing around with figuring out which one is more
-          accurate, or how to combine them to get better guesses,
-          or something.
-      * Automatically collect and document or publish other monthly
-        statistics
-        - Total data over time
-        - Number, availability and performance of relays
-        - Advertised capacity
       - With Mike's help, use Torflow to start doing monthly rudimentary
         performance evaluations:
         - Circuit throughput and latency
         - Measure via Broadband and dialup
-      - Make a few graphs of the most interesting public data
       - Publish a report addressing key long-term metrics questions:
         - What metrics should we present?
         - What data are available for these metrics?
@@ -114,59 +51,22 @@ K   - Metrics.
         - What systems are available to present this data?
 
 E   - Vidalia improvements
-      - Implement Vidalia presentation of plaintext port warnings
+      - Put out a Vidalia release with the new features in it.
-      - Figure out a plan for presenting other Tor status warning events.
-      - Move Polipo into the main Vidalia -dev bundle.
       - Vidalia displays by-country user summary for bridge operators
 ?       - write a help page for vidalia, "what is this"
-      - Get the onion icons back into vidalia svn
-        d Find an OS X user who can do design who thinks the OS X onion
-          icons are crappy and need fixing
-
-M   - Network scanning and network health
-      - Implement some initial automated scans.
-      - Describe a roadmap for how to get from here to plausible,
-        long-term security scanning tests for Tor network
-      - Document a strategy for incorporating results into directory
-        consensus documents. At what phases will we be ready to automate
-        which parts? How will we recognize when we are ready?
 
 M   - Torbutton development
-      - Keep up with our bugfixes -- build a plan for (or resolve)
+      - Put out a Torbutton release with the new features in it.
-        every item in Flyspray, and other known issues like the Google
-        captcha issue.
-      - Build a strategy for how Torbutton and Vidalia can
-        communicate. E.g., what do we do with the 'new identity' button
-        in Vidalia?
-      * Make Torbutton happy on FF3, especially so TBB can drop FF2.
 
 C   - Transparent interception of connections on Windows
-      - Produce prototype, with screenshots for how to install and test.
+      - Write a summary (with links) of current progress and current
-      - Document open issues, future work, things users need to be aware
+        limitations.
-        of, etc.
-
-S   - Tor Browser bundle work
-      - Use native Vidalia (non-PortableFirefox) launcher for browser
-      - Close Browser on clean Vidalia exit
-      - Establish feasibility of simultaneous Firefox usage (also
-        considering implications for (OpenVPN-style or other) system-wide
-        Tor interception)
-      - Switch Tor Browser Bundle to Firefox 3, once Torbutton is ready.
-      - Decide whether TBB should use Torbutton's "lock" feature.
-        http://archives.seul.org/or/cvs/Jun-2008/msg00186.html
-I     . Jake learns how to build the TBB and takes over doing new
-        releases.
 
 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   - Periodic summaries of localization progress: both pootle and wml.
-I   - Collecting user stories
-I   d Revise the 'Tor mirror page' so it doesn't list obsolete-looking
-      timestamps. Just have two tables, "new enough" and "not new enough".
-I   * Get Tor Weather up, stable, and in use by some relay operators.
 I   d Get a relay operator mailing list going, with a plan and supporting
       scripts and so on.