Thanks for the feedback :)
Vagrant itself works perfectly fine - I can run vagrant up and connect no
problem.
As for coding, I've been a developer for around 12 years now and have
strong skills in a bunch of web technologies (my day job). I'm also
moderately decent at things involving hardware (a few years of reverse
engineering protocols for physical security systems). My main languages are
java, ruby and js/coffeescript (frontend and node.js) and a somewhat rusty
knowledge of C (but not much c++).
I think I know more than the average developer about security and different
attack vectors.
My main interests lie in finding new attacks against tails (and fixing
them) and making the software absurdly easy to use on just about every
machine. At some point I'd also be interested in porting tails to run on
android - an obvious way would just to run a modified version of tails in a
chroot environment, similar to what the pwnpad people do. (Of course, the
ideal case is being able to dual boot via an SD card).
Right now, I was planning on picking an "easy" task like adding a reboot
button to the installer for the persistence setup but even something like
that needs the full toolchain it seems. I'm happy to go install wheezy on a
spare box but it would be nice in the long run if things worked on a mac as
well.
Is this enough information?
- alasdair
I was going to take on one of the easy tasks like "add a reboot button to
the installer for persistence"
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 11:40 PM, intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alasdair Young wrote (07 Jul 2014 21:05:03 GMT) :
> > I'm looking at contributing to tails.
>
> Excellent! Welcome aboard :)
>
> > Do you happen to have any quickstart docs available?
>
> I'm not sure it qualifies as *quick*start documentation,
> but the best we have is:
>
> https://tails.boum.org/contribute/
>
> ... and then, you'll find the most relevant entry point for the kind
> of skills you have / want to learn :)
>
> > Ideally I'd like to use a mac over building a debian box - is this
> possible
> > with the current toolchain?
>
> I have never heard of anyone trying our Vagrant setup and
> configuration works on OSX. It would be interesting to know if
> it works.
>
> Still, if what you're interested in is code / development, we have
> quite some tasks that can be worked on without building a Tails ISO.
> I suspect these will be more suitable to get you started:
>
> https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues?utf8=
> ✓&set_filter=1&f[]=cf_17&op[cf_17]==&v[cf_17][]=1&f[]=status_id&op[status_id]=o&f[]=assigned_to_id&op[assigned_to_id]=!*&f[]=cf_15&op[cf_15]==&v[cf_15][]=Code&f[]=cf_9&op[cf_9]=!&v[cf_9][]=Pass&f[]=&c[]=status&c[]=priority&c[]=fixed_version&c[]=subject&c[]=category&c[]=cf_15&c[]=assigned_to&c[]=cf_9&group_by=
>
> (How to reproduce: go to our Redmine, click the "Easy" link in the
> sidebar, add "Type of work == Code" and "QA Check != Pass"
> filters, apply.)
>
> Also, something that has worked very well in the past is to tell us
> a bit more about your skills and areas of interest, and then we'll be
> happy to propose you a list of tasks that match it.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri
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