TPA 2026 roadmap
This roadmap was determined during the [2025 TPA meetup](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/meeting/2025-10) and [adopted in November 2025](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/meeting/2025-11-10#2026-roadmap-review), although it's still up for review with other stakeholders as of 2025-11-16.
## Must have
Recurring:
- YEC (@lavamind)
- regular upgrades and reboots, and other chores (stars)
- no hardware replacements than the ones already planned with tails
(dragon etc)
Non-recurring:
- tails merge:
- tails moving to Prometheus, requires TPA prometheus server merge
(because we need the space, mostly, @zen)
- shift merge, which requires tails moving to prometheus (stars)
- mailman merge (maybe delegate to tails team? @groente can followup)
- email mailboxes (TPA-RFC-45, @groente)
- authentication merge phase 1 (after mailboxes, @groente)
- web:
- download.tpo website launch (@lavamind)
- vpn content publishled on support.tpo (@lavamind)
- marble on community, blog, and www.tpo websites (@lavamind)
- donate-neo CAPTCHA fixes (@anarcat / @lavamind)
- dev portal rework (@lavamind and UX)
- completed trixie upgrades (stars)
- SVN retirement or migration (@anarcat)
- MinIO migration / conversion to Garage? (@lelutin)
- TPA-RFC-38 wikis, perhaps just for TPA's wiki for starters? (@anarcat)
- OpenVox packaging (@lavamind)
## Nice to have
- RFC reform (maybe already done in 2025, @anarcat)
- (TPA?) in-person meeting (@anarcat)
- reform deb.tpo, further idea for a roadmap to fix the tor debian
package (@lelutin / @lavamind, filed as [tpo/tpa/team#42374][])
- gitlab scaling (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40479), possibly connected with the tails website merge, see https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/42393#note_3293204)
- tails merge:
- firewall merge, requires TPA and Tails to migrate to nftables (@zen)
- Tails websites merge
- Tails mirror coordination (postpone to 2027?)
- Tails DNS merge
- Tails TLS merge
[tpo/tpa/team#42374]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/42374
Let's move that deb.tpo item list to an epic or issue.
## Won't do
- backups merge (postponed to 2027)
## Observations
- lots of stuff, hard to tell whether we'll be able to pull it off
- we assigned names, but that's flexible
- we don't know exactly when those things will be done, will be
allocated in quarterly reviews
- this is our wishlist, we need to get feedback from other teams, web
team and perhaps team leads / ops meeting coming up about that
Previous roadmap was https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/roadmap/2025
epic