[tor-dev] Starting with contributing to Anonymous Local Count Statistics.

[Jaskaran Singh]

Hi,

I thought the project idea had already been depreciated in favor of
counting unique users by directory fetches. No?

Regards,
Jaskaran

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:48 PM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net>
wrote:

> Aruna Maurya <aruna.maurya12 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > [ text/plain ]
> > Hey!
> >
> > What is the current status of the project, how much work has been done
> and
> > where can I pick up from?
> >
>
> Hi!
>
> The project is currently not being worked on.
>
> Mainly design work has been done so far; no code has been written.
> See:   https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/
> 012001.html
>        https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/
> 012073.html
>
> I suggest you pick it up by fleshing out the design work and seeing if
> it works for you, and then checking out the code to see where you need
> to inject the code. Perhaps you can also get in touch with Jaskaran
> Singh (jvsg1303 at gmail.com) who did all the previous design work to see
> if he is interested in collaborating!
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
> > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Aruna Maurya <aruna.maurya12 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net>
> >> Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:32 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Starting with contributing to Anonymous Local
> Count
> >> Statistics.
> >> To: Aruna Maurya <aruna.maurya12 at gmail.com>,
> tor-dev at lists.torproject.org
> >>
> >>
> >> Aruna Maurya <aruna.maurya12 at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > [ text/plain ]
> >> > Hey!
> >> >
> >> > I was going through the Tor Volunteer page and came across the
> Anonymous
> >> > local count statistics project. As a student it would be a great
> starting
> >> > point and an even bigger opportunity to get a chance to collaborate
> and
> >> > learn in the process.
> >> >
> >> > I would like to contribute to it, and would love to start as soon as
> >> > possible. It would be great if someone could guide me through.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Hello Aruna,
> >>
> >> thanks for reaching out.
> >>
> >> I also find this project interesting. I'd like to help you but my time
> >> is quite limited lately.
> >>
> >> What would you like guidance with?
> >>
> >> With regards to design, I suggest you take a look at the last comments
> >> of this trac ticket:  https://trac.torproject.org/pr
> >> ojects/tor/ticket/7532#comment:22
> >> Particularly it seems like the PCSA algorithm might be a reasonable way
> >> forward.
> >>
> >> With regards to coding, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the Tor
> >> codebase. Some specific places to look at would be the way that Tor
> >> currently counts users. For example, see geoip_note_client_seen() and
> >> its callers, for when bridges register new clients to their stats
> >> subsystem. Also check geoip_format_bridge_stats() for when bridges
> >> finally report those stats.
> >>
> >> Let us know if you have any specific questions!
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Aruna Maurya,
> >> CSE,B.tech,
> >> Blog <https://themindreserves.wordpress.com/> | Medium
> >> <https://medium.com/@arunamaurya>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Aruna Maurya,
> > CSE,B.tech,
> > Blog <https://themindreserves.wordpress.com/> | Medium
> > <https://medium.com/@arunamaurya>
> > [ text/plain ]
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