Releases No Tails version was released in December 2017. We updated our release schedule for 2018. Code We published our plans for 2018. We started improving the backend of the Additional Software persistent feature. We worked on: Not blocking the opening of the desktop (#9059, Blueprint). Making it work offline (#14570, Blueprint). Documentation and website Cody and sajolida started fixing issues identified in the expert review done by jaster on our installation instructions in August: Solve all the smaller issues. Create tickets for all remaining issues on Redmine. (#14548) Make plans to restructure our support page in depth. We wrote design documents for our installation instructions and verification extension (Tails Verification). User experience New download page We completely redesigned our download page. This work was triggered by the rewrite of Tails Verification (our browser extension) into Web Extensions but the result improves the overall experience. Tails Verification is also now available for Chrome. UX work on VeraCrypt in GNOME We designed the user experience for our work on the integration of VeraCrypt in GNOME. We analyzed the results of our online survey. We did some paper prototypes of the interactions and tested them with users. Read more about our UX work in our dedicated report. Hot topics on our help desk Tor Browser cannot print to file Infrastructure We have converted two sources of email sent by cron with Icinga 2 monitoring checks that are easier to track and fine-tune (#11598, #12455). We have fixed a longstanding bug that made the UX of our CI system confusing when deleting a branch in Git (#15069). We have set up a local email server on every Jenkins node that runs automated ISO tests, as a first step towards making our automatic Thunderbird tests more robust (#12277). We have tuned our servers to get a little bit better performance out of our CI system (#15054). We have extended the blueprint about upgrading the hardware for automated tests. Outreach Past events 34c3: A fair number of Tails developers and contributors attended the 34th Chaos Communication Congress (34c3) in Leipzig. During this event, we set up a table to meet with interested parties- users, contributors, or anyone interested. We were able to reach both newcomers and long-time users of Tails, answer questions, help, exchange stickers, give away USB keys and t-shirts in exchange of donations, get feedback or just chat. It was, of course, also a great opportunity to meet people in person, discuss, work, and have fun both within the project and with friend projects. Upcoming events We will have a booth at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 3–4. sajolida will be at the Internet Freedom Festival in Valencia on March 5–9. Translation All the website de: 54% (2846) strings translated, 7% strings fuzzy, 48% words translated fa: 39% (2076) strings translated, 10% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated fr: 91% (4786) strings translated, 1% strings fuzzy, 88% words translated it: 36% (1919) strings translated, 5% strings fuzzy, 32% words translated pt: 23% (1216) strings translated, 9% strings fuzzy, 19% words translated Total original words: 56302 Core pages of the website de: 76% (1454) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 77% words translated fa: 33% (640) strings translated, 11% strings fuzzy, 33% words translated fr: 97% (1848) strings translated, 2% strings fuzzy, 96% words translated it: 71% (1342) strings translated, 13% strings fuzzy, 71% words translated pt: 41% (784) strings translated, 15% strings fuzzy, 41% words translated Total original words: 17235 Metrics Tails has been started more than 637276 times this month. This makes 20557 boots a day on average. 9215 downloads of the OpenPGP signature of Tails ISO from our website. 66 bug reports were received through WhisperBack. Continue reading...
