roadmap/2025.md

@@ -86,6 +86,48 @@ event, but is now part of our roadmap.
   in [2025-06-16](meeting/2025-06-16)
 - 2025-Q3: plan was made in [2025-07-07](meeting/2025-07-07)
 
+# Yearly reviews
+
+This section was put together to answer the question "what has TPA
+done in 2025" for the "state of the onion".
+
+- Prometheus phase B: reduced noise in our monitoring system, finished
+  the migration from legacy, domain name checks, dead man's switch,
+  see https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/14
+  which was mostly done since october 2024 until now
+- MinIO clustering research and deployment
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41415
+- download page and VPN launch web overhaul
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/248 and lots of
+  others
+- massive amount of work on the email systems, with new spam filters,
+  mailman upgrade, and general improvements on deliverability
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/16
+- tails merge, year 2/6 https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/18
+  - puppet merge
+  - new design for a centralized authentication system
+  - merged limesurvey
+  - moved from XMPP to Matrix/IRC
+  - trained each other on both infra
+- trixie upgrades: batches 1 and 2 completed, 82% done, funky graph at
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades#all-time-version-graph,
+  hoping to converge towards batch upgrades every three years instead
+  of two parallel upgrade batches *for* three years
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/milestones/12
+- service containerization experiments for anticensorship and
+  network-health teams
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41769
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/42080
+- confidential GitLab issues encryption
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/gitlab/-/issues/151
+- asncounter and GitLab AI crawlers defense
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/42152
+- survived vacations
+- started tracking technical debt more formally in internal reports
+  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41456
+- crossed the 4k closed issue in April, crunching on average 40+
+  issues per month, or a little over one per day
+
 # Capacity tracking
 
 Actual quarterly allocations are managed in a [Nextcloud spreadsheet](https://nc.torproject.net/apps/onlyoffice/458448).