[HTTPS-Everywhere] Weekly GSoC IRC Meeting

Yan Zhu yan at eff.org
Fri Jul 18 02:15:10 PDT 2014


Hi Zack and everyone else, I can't make the usual IRC meeting time this
week due to HOPE being at the same time. Let's shoot for sometime early
next week though. (5PM PST on Monday?)

On 07/11/2014 07:21 AM, Red wrote:
> 
> On 2014-07-11, 7:15 AM, Yan Zhu wrote:
>> Let's try to have an IRC meeting this week, although maybe shorter than
>> usual. Does 10AM PST work? (I can't do later)
> Yup, that works fine for me!
> Talk to you then.
>> -Yan
>>
>> On 06/27/2014 01:51 PM, Yan Zhu wrote:
>>> An exciting thing happened this week, which is that Zack and I figured
>>> out a very clean way to add tests for the main extension code in HTTPS
>>> Everywhere (without having a custom build of Firefox / xpcshell / pain).
>>>
>>> If you want to test it out or add some tests, merge this pull request
>>> into your HTTPS Everywhere repo:
>>> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/pull/338. Instructions for
>>> running tests are here:
>>> https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/blob/feature/tests/https-everywhere-tests/README.md.
>>>
>>> The tests are written in Javascript and have the usual js assertion
>>> semantics so they should be pretty easy to add:
>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/test_assert
>>>
>>> (You can also write tests for SSL Observatory -
>>> Components.classes["@eff.org/ssl-observatory;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsISupports).wrappedJSObject
>>> gives you access to its js object!)
>>>
>>> -Yan
>>>
>>> On 06/27/2014 12:26 PM, Red wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>> Yan and I have just concluded our meeting for this week. I have already
>>>> updated the gist containing my notes to include this week's:
>>>> https://gist.github.com/redwire/b62f03905a826e79947a#week-7
>>>>
>>>> In summary, the primary focus of this meeting's discussion has been
>>>> centered around testing.  I have been working on a new extension
>>>> (https://github.com/redwire/https-everywhere-testing) to test HTTPS
>>>> Everywhere functionality.
>>>>
>>>> In the coming week, I will be adapting this extension to the Firefox
>>>> addon SDK, so that we can take advantage of the testing utilities and
>>>> libraries it includes. I will also be working on integrating these tests
>>>> into the HTTPS Everywhere build script and, time providing, writing
>>>> tests for the ruleset update verification I had been implementing
>>>> previously.
>>>>
>>>> If you have any thoughts or ideas, please don't hesitate to share them!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Zack
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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Yan Zhu  <yan at eff.org>, <yan at torproject.org>
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