Team

Applications Team

About us

Welcome to the Applications Team wiki page. The Applications Team is a group of Tor people who are working on different user facing products like Tor Browser.

People

The people who are part of this team is anyone working on the projects described above. We're not listing names here to keep the team open to everyone. This team also has the participation of user support and localization team members and members of other teams that give support to the Application team efforts.

You're on the team if you're participating in discussions and development, and you're not part of the team anymore if you decide you want to move on (which we hope won't happen).

Communication

Just go to #tor-browser-dev, and somebody from the team might either be around or appear later and get back to you. You can use the tbb-team alias for getting the attention of someone on the team (many of us have added this specific keyword so it highlights us).

We use IRC for our meetings, we meet on the OFTC network. We use a meeting pad to take notes each meeting.

Team meeting	UTC	CET
Primary team meeting	Monday 15:00	Monday 16:00

Priorities

In Q1 and Q2 the App's team will focus on improving the overall user experience of Tor Browser with ESR updates and connect assist for Android. In the secon

Tor Browser Desktop UX
Connect Assist & Connection Settings for Android
Onion error reporting
Tor Browser maintenance (bugs fixing, periodic rebases, etc
NoScript maintenance and/or new features
ESR Update  starting on time
Improve Browser from feedback from users
"Tor VPN" implementation
Improve QA process for To Browser
Tor Browser refactoring
Sustainable release process
Automated testing system in place (esp for non-linux platforms)

Previous priorities.

Roadmap for Q1 and Q2 - January to June 2024

Sponsor 131  

Letterboxing/Betterboxing
Installers for Windows/Linux
Third party apps external links
OpenH264 Build Reproducibility

Sponsor 96

Tor Browser Desktop UX

Roadmap for Q3 and Q4 - July to December 2024

Sponsor 101 - VPN

Transitioning the product to the Application's team

Sponsor 131

Priorities to be aligned

Previous roadmaps.

Active Sponsor Projects

Sponsor 9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights
Sponsor 96 - Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet
Sponsor 101 - Tor VPN Client for Android
Sponsor 131 - Refactoring of Tor Browser

Triaging Tickets

We are triaging tickets once a week (Bella and Richard) .

The criteria to include tickets in a specific milestone are:

bugs that must be fixed (include security, regression or crash bugs)
tickets that have been road-mapped before because they are part of a sponsored project
tickets that are very fast to fix (around 1 hour)

The process we are using for triaging tickets is:

filter out all tickets not in the milestone sorted by creation date
for each new ticket:

add related labels (for example add an UX label to tickets that needs UX/UI help and the same for other teams)
if it fits the criteria written above then add it to the right milestone

Becoming a volunteer

The best way to get involved is to visit our weekly IRC meeting (see above). Tell us your background and interests and we will find a project for your to get started.