Karsten, would working on TorStatus to make it work with the Metrics database be a useful project?
Do you think either you, or someone else could mentor it? I know it's PHP and it won't directly be a part of Metrics but it could be another method of displaying and exporting the data. Unfortunately I don't trust my little Java knowledge to work directly on metrics. If this is not needed then I'll focus on something with Python. Thanks. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:50:06AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> > Exporting to CSV based of of the filters is an easy task. Is there >> > anyone else who would find this useful? If so I'll look into making a >> > PHP script that can do that right now. :) >> >> The odds of Tor picking a GSoC student to improve TorStatus are non-zero, >> but low. (To be precise, I wouldn't mentor that project, but I don't know >> if somebody else would.) >> >> The better approach for providing Tor network status information is to >> extend the metrics website, mostly because the metrics website is >> maintained whereas the TorStatus website isn't. Kevin Berry, one of our >> last year's GSoC students who I mentored, started working on a basic >> network status page here: >> >> https://metrics.torproject.org/networkstatus.html >> >> The code for the metrics website is here, and yes, it's JSP/servlets: >> >> http://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-web.git >> >> Please let me know if you have further questions. > > That said, I think changing the Torstatus PHP script so it uses the > metrics database as its back-end, and cleaning up the PHP part of it, > would still be a very valuable task. > > Right now Torstatus has two components: the PHP interface front-end, > and the database back-end that remembers stuff about the network so it > can (for example) make historical bandwidth graphs. > > The database kept by the metrics project is probably better than the > database kept by Torstatus. So dropping the db side of torstatus, and > teaching it to use the db from metrics, would be valuable in that it > would make things more maintainable. > > The front-end from Torstatus is currently more usable, and thus more > useful, than the front-end on the metrics project. Karsten would like > somebody to fix the metrics side so it's better, and then we can dump > Torstatus. That would be great, if it happens, but until it happens, > making Torstatus better would still be useful. > > The problem is that there are basically no Torstatus developers in > the world, so working on that as a GSoC project would be hard since we > wouldn't have anybody to mentor you. > > But if somebody wants to pick it up as a side hobby, that'd be great. :) > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Ian Foster www.vorsk.com _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
