[tor-bugs] #10708 [Tor Weather]: Consider making Weather's daily t-shirt notifications a separate service
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#10708: Consider making Weather's daily t-shirt notifications a separate service
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Reporter: karsten | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor Weather | Version:
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: weather-rewrite
Actual Points: | Parent ID:
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Changes (by karsten):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
Hmm. I just had a closer look at the Weather code, and I think there's a
misunderstanding how t-shirt notifications work.
Weather sends out welcome mails to relay operators whose relay got the
Stable flag for the first time and invites them to subscribe to Weather.
When a relay qualifies for a t-shirt, Weather notifies all subscribed
users. But Weather ''does not'' send out t-shirt notifications to non-
subscribed users. (Please somebody correct me if I read the code wrong.)
In my opinion, this process is quite a bit better than a service that only
sends out emails when a relay qualifies for a t-shirt. The current
process gets in touch with relay operators much earlier and shows them
that we care about their relay. It's also a fine motivation to promise
operators a t-shirt they can get weeks later if they continue running
their relay, which is not the case if we only send them email when they
already qualified.
So, if we want this somewhat more complex process (welcome mail,
subscription, t-shirt notification), we'll need something like Weather. A
simple script with local state is not sufficient for that.
I'm closing this ticket, because I think we should be focusing on fixing
current Weather and not change its functionality for now.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10708#comment:1>
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