(I numerate this email, so that you can easily navigate to the bit of information you want, without needing to read everything)
1. how a research project reached out to Tail
2. offer from a research project to answer questions
3. research, i2p, additional software, without changing major code base
4. Summary
5. Questions and how to proceed
if you don't want/have the time to read all, reading 4 + 5 is enough to grasp context and answer questions
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1. how a research project reached out to Tail
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Around 2 weeks ago the community run non-official Tails mastodon account, asked the question if people would like to see I2P being reintroduced into Tails.
A person responded that they're ready to start to maintain this some when in July.
I forwarded them some questions from a 3 years old ticket that relate to "Integrate i2pd as an alternative client to i2p."
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2. offer from a research project to answer questions
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Here's their response that can be an opportunity for Tails to outsource some research work:
(I assume that it does not need to be related to i2p at all. Porting Tails to ARM could probably also be a topic, or anything else that fits the scope of the diva and Tails)
"#diva is an academic project.
Our research lab partners with #University of #Lucerne, Dept. IT, in Switzerland. Some of the tails #i2p questions might be interesting from our perspective - other questions might be rather non-constructive.
If you would like that we at #diva pick up some tails-questions in our research lab, please discuss the sponsoring/partnering opportunities with #diva: @carolyn 👏 👍 There are plenty of opportunities!"
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3. research, i2p, additional software, without changing major code base
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About "defining our code base" first:
I am aware that this is important and should be priority before introducing new software that might require a change in "re-introducing a bunch of dedicated code & configuration in our Git repo"
To quote intigeri:
"Now, if someone finds a way to make I2P work nicely in Tails without
modifying our code base, my whole point above is moot, and indeed this
issue could be re-framed into something totally unrelated to #16531 :)"
This conversation can be found in here:
https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/12264#note_149381
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4. Summary
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A research project reached out to us:
"If you would like that we at #diva pick up some tails-questions in our research lab, please discuss the sponsoring/partnering opportunities with #diva: @carolyn 👏 👍 There are plenty of opportunities!"
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5. Questions and how to proceed
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I would like to use this opportunity.
How to proceed?
Who would like to pick up this task/ join in?
I'd prefer if some of the non-just-passing-by-contributers (so not me) would lead this process. If you don't have the resources for that, I would proceed as the following:
- doing very short developer and user interviews
- summarizing them and identify questions
- get feedback from the teams
- forward it all to the research project
(disclaimer: I am in unstable environment. It can happen that I'm offline from one moment to the other for weeks)
kind regards,
syster
