This is the website for Ceno Browser - a web browser designed to circumvent censorship by routing traffic through intermediate ephemeral nodes (bridges).

Once the content is in the censored zone - and if it's not private - it is then further distributed by those nodes in a BitTorrent-like fashion.

Local Development

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages and content is authored in HTML.

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone [email protected]:censorship-no/ceno-website.git

2. Install dependencies for i18n support:

   You will need Translate Toolkit and gettext.

   On a Debian-based system, install these with:

   • sudo apt update
   • sudo apt install translate-toolkit gettext

3. In the ceno-website master branch, update HTML files in en.src only (page-specific content or common head & tail). Never edit files in en or other languages' directories.

   If you need to check how the English site would look, run ./html-assemble-en.sh, open the pages and then restore en/*.html.

   Do not create new Weblate components yet as their translations may get lost after POT extraction and PO update below.

4. If updating only the Ceno download link, use the following command:

   ./git-update-download.sh VERSION DATE

   where VERSION and DATE match the latest apk found on the dComms server, e.g. for v2.0.0:

   ./git-update-download.sh 2.0.0 2023-01-26_1701

5. On translation freeze, assemble the i18n files:

   ./git-assemble.sh

   This automates the following steps:

   • no-ff-merge origin/master into i18n.
   • In i18n, run ./html-assemble-en.sh, then ./pot-extract.sh, then ./po-update.sh; commit each step (if it produces changes)

6. Push to origin/i18n:

   git push origin i18n

7. (Optional) Create new components in Weblate if any; this will take care of adding new PO files.

8. New translations create a Gitlab merge request to the i18n branch. Approve the merge request in Gitlab before the next steps. NOTE: Do not squash commits when merging, as Weblate will not always pick up the changes.

9. If adding a new language, touch its index.html file before executing the next step.

10. When satisfied with translations, update the html for all languages, commit & push to origin/i18n:

    • ./html-update-all.sh
    • git add -A && git commit -m "updating html with new changes"
    • git push origin i18n

11. No-ff-merge origin/i18n into master and push to origin/master:

    • git checkout master
    • git merge --no-ff origin/i18n
    • git push origin master

Now the website will be automatically updated by the Github CI/CD located at https://github.com/censorship-no/ceno.github.io!

Additional Resources

• Ceno Browser Branding & Style Guide
• Ceno Browser project on Weblate

License

This source code is subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Feedback

We welcome both positive and negative feedback, bug reports and feature requests, as well as questions at [email protected]. Our PGP key fingerprint is: 51BE 600C 2711 926C 865D F93F C7DC C123 F0DD B862