Make BridgeDB leave out blocked bridges
From org/sponsors/SponsorF/Year2: "17. bridgedb: learn to take in a list of bridges blocked in a set of countries, and learn what country a user is asking for bridges in, and leave the blocked bridges out of the answer we provide. We'll want this building block once we have bridge reachability testing working."
From talking to Aaron in December:
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The current BridgeDB code contains a function to accept a list of blocked bridges by country to give out non-blocked bridges to users (legacy/trac#1837 (moved)). This code needs testing. Also, there is a bug with how BridgeDB learns which country a user is interested in getting un-blocked bridges for, which currently conflicts with the language selection.
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There are at least three approaches for giving out non-blocked bridges to users: a) exclude blocked bridges from results, b) replace blocked bridges with non-blocked once, or c) include blocked bridges in results and write "maybe blocked" next to them. We're currently doing a), but we should do c) to improve usability. There are variants of b), e.g., b1) Christian suggests to give out exactly one non-blocked bridge if otherwise we’d give out zero bridges and b2) Roger suggests to give out the first three non-blocked bridges in a fixed set of five bridges. One part of this deliverable should be to discuss these alternatives and agree on one of them that shall be implemented.
Can we agree on some schedule when these substeps and the overall deliverable are expected to be done?
Optimistically assigning to the July milestone.