[tor-project] Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, February 2025

[rhatto]

Hi all

This is my monthly status report for February 2025 with the main relevant
activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the
period.

Sending this early on as I'll be AFK in the next days/week.

For other Onion Services news, check this post:

Some news from the Onion Space, February 2025

This post is coming a bit late, giving updates about Onion Services based on the transcript from the 2024 State of the Onion presentation. Companion slides are available here. Onion Services Onion Services is a communication technology for exchanging data using the Tor network. Usually, whenever a Tor user is surfing around, their connection exits the Tor network at some point to reach a destination on the internet. But with Onion Services, the communication from one point to another happ…

## Ansible

This month was focused in fixing and improving CI for the Ansible codebase,
which resulted in three new small projects:

* AnCIble - opinionated CI templates for Ansible roles and playbooks:
  The Tor Project / Onion Services / Ansible / AnCIble · GitLab

* Example role:
  The Tor Project / Onion Services / Ansible / Example Ansible Role · GitLab

* Example playbook:
  The Tor Project / Onion Services / Ansible / Example Ansible Playbook · GitLab

## Other

* Improved Onionprobe installation docs:
  * Page: https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionprobe/installation/
  * Ticket: Improve the python package installation procedure (#101) · Issues · The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onionprobe · GitLab

* Improved the Onion Services research references:
  * Page: References - The Onion Services Ecosystem
  * Ticket: Improve the References page (#33) · Issues · The Tor Project / Onion Services / Onion Plan · GitLab

* Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion
  Services.

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Silvio Rhatto
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