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Other resources
Process
Contact
To get in touch with the entire Tails Team, you can:
- write to the foundations@tails.net Schleuder mailing list;
- mention
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You can encrypt your email with our OpenPGP key (details).
Priorities
Strategic Goals
Priorities for 2025
WIP on tails/tails#20548
Past priorities
- 2024
- priorities were not set, beyond doing the work planned as part of S11
- done in 2024
Roadmap
This is the big picture. For details about what's happening on the short term, see the board for the upcoming milestone.
Projects
Project 165
- Calendar: 2024-12-01 to 2025-11-30
- Wiki page with details
- Kanban Board
2025 Q1
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Define Tails Team priorities & roadmap for 2025 (tails/tails#20548) -
Wrap up work on Persistent Storage robustness so we can focus on something else in 2025 -
Report earlier errors about the partition table, partition header, and resizing: design, implement, release (tails#20531 (closed)) -
Follow up on "Report earlier errors about the partition table, partition header, and resizing" (tails#20531 (closed)): analyze user feedback, consider making more errors fatal (tails#20705) -
Warn about the danger of unplugging the USB stick on next boot (tails#5760)
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Security audit (P165) -
Remediate vulnerabilities identified by security audit (tails#20699) -
Ensure we don't reintroduce the same kind of problems (tails#20711, tails/tails#20719) -
Post-mortem about the S11 security audit (tails#20736)
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Figure out the scope of our Arti work in 2025 (tails/tails#20735) -
Research alternatives to Etcher and if there's a good enough candidate, switch to it (tails#20423) -
Grant Tor Browser access to files as designated by the user (tails#10422) -
Converge workflows and tooling towards Tor's -
Update Tails team roles pages and merge them into 1 single wiki (tails#20598 (closed), tails/tails#20472) -
Improve collaboration with Tor Browser team during their release process (tails#20693 (closed)) -
Update https://tails.net/contribute/ section? -
Potential goal: every part of this section has an owner who's aware of it, OK with that, and has the needed skills & capacity. -
Needs discussions with other teams at Tor. Could be their job to update these sections, eg. "Translator" by emmapeel. -
Triage and identify the different bits and next steps? -
Try to do some minimal update to clarify the new relationship with Tor?
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Work on more on "About Us"? (tails#17700 outdated)
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Recurring P165 (OTF FOSS Sustainability Fund) work:
- A.2 Prototype and collaborate on using Arti
- B.1 Release management and smaller OS migrations
- C.1 Fix long-lasting usability issues
- C.2 Act on feedback received by email and in-app tool
- D.1 Make the Tails development process more efficient (test suite)
Maybe:
- Signal support? (ICANN?)
Boards:
2025 Q2
- Upgrade to Debian 13 and release 7.0: do the bulk of the porting work (P165)
- Help get grant proposals for 2026 ready: research, prototype, define deliverables, estimate costs, etc.
- Converge workflows and tooling towards Tor's
- Recurring P165 (OTF FOSS Sustainability Fund) work
- A.2 Prototype and collaborate on using Arti
- B.1 Release management and smaller OS migrations
- C.1 Fix long-lasting usability issues
- C.2 Act on feedback received by email and in-app tool
- D.1 Make the Tails development process more efficient (test suite)
- Signal support? (ICANN?)
2025 Q3
- Upgrade to Debian 13 and release 7.0: get it ready (including beta/RC), update doc, process feedback, fix blockers for 7.0 stable
- KTLO
- Upgrade Tor Browser to new ESR (P165)
- Upgrade Thunderbird to new ESR (P165)
- Converge workflows and tooling towards Tor's
- Recurring P165 (OTF FOSS Sustainability Fund) work
- A.2 Prototype and collaborate on using Arti
- B.1 Release management and smaller OS migrations
- C.1 Fix long-lasting usability issues
- C.2 Act on feedback received by email and in-app tool
- D.1 Make the Tails development process more efficient (test suite)
- Signal support? (ICANN?)
- Integrated backup system for the Persistent Storage? (crowdfunding?)
2025 Q4
- Upgrade to Debian 13 and release 7.0: release, post-release feedback & fixes (P165)
- KTLO
- Upgrade Tor Browser to new ESR (P165)
- Upgrade Thunderbird to new ESR (P165)
- Converge workflows and tooling towards Tor's
- Recurring P165 (OTF FOSS Sustainability Fund) work
- A.2 Prototype and collaborate on using Arti
- B.1 Release management and smaller OS migrations
- C.1 Fix long-lasting usability issues
- C.2 Act on feedback received by email and in-app tool
- D.1 Make the Tails development process more efficient (test suite)
- Signal support? (ICANN?)
- Integrated backup system for the Persistent Storage? (crowdfunding?)