From e4d3352e3fbeba823b0b9e11f282c357f4175cec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Mathewson Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:45:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Initial thoughts on a TODO.022. svn:r19369 --- doc/TODO.022 | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/TODO.022 diff --git a/doc/TODO.022 b/doc/TODO.022 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3eeae006cb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/TODO.022 @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +Nick's initial priorities for Tor 0.2.2: + +NOTE 1: I'm not looking at fiddly little stuff from TODO.021 yet. We + can do a step where we triage the nice-to-have issues. + +NOTE 2: It's easy to list stuff like this with no time estimates and + no target dates. I think we should pick a target date for + 0.2.2, figure out how long the stuff we want will take, and + triage accordingly, or vice versa. + +- Design + - Begin design work for UDP transition; identify areas where we need to + make changes or instrument stuff early. + +- Performance, mostly protocol-neutral. + - Work with Libevent 2.0's bufferevent interface + - Identify any performance stuff we need to push back into + libevent to make it as fast as we want. + + - Revise how we do bandwidth limiting and round-robining between + circuits on a connection. + + - Revise how we do bandwidth limiting and round-robining between + connections. + + - Better flow-control to avoid filling buffers on routers. + + - Split AES across cores if possible. + - Split SSL across cores (reach; may require Libevent 2.1). + + - Figure out good ways to instrument Tor internals so we can tell + how well our bandwidth and flow-control stuff is actually working. + +- Features + - Proposals to implement: + - 146: reflect long-term stability + - 147: Stop using v2 directories to generate v3 votes. + + - Proposals to improve and implement + - 158: microdescriptors + + - Proposals to improve and implement if not broken + - IPv6 support. (Parts of 117, but figure out how to handle DNS + requests.) + - 140: Directory diffs + - 149: learn info from netinfo cells. + - 134: handle authority fragmentation (Needs more analysis) + +- Deprecations + - Make .exit safe, or make it off-by-default. + -- 2.11.4.GIT