[tor-project] Metrics to help relay operators?

[David Goulet]

On 30 Aug (10:04:03), Karsten Loesing wrote:
> Hi Alison,
> 
> moving this thread from the metrics-team@ moderation queue to this
> list with your permission:
> 
> > Hi Metrics team,
> > 
> > I was talking to Roger on IRC about how great it is that he sent 
> > those checkin mails to everyone who runs a fast relay, and he had 
> > an idea for the metrics and community teams to work together to
> > get useful lists that we could use to help give better support to
> > our network of relay operators. For example, a weekly mail of all
> > the relays that just passed the "earned a tshirt" threshold, or
> > some other threshold about how much bandwidth they've pushed over
> > a period of time, etc. The community team could then contact the 
> > relay operator(s) and congratulate them, thank them for their 
> > service, see if we can offer them help in any other ways, and so 
> > forth.
> > 
> > I've copied the community team here. Let's chat if you guys are 
> > interested!
> > 
> > Alison
> 
> Sure, let's do this.
> 
> I might not be able to hack much on this myself in the next weeks, but
> I'm happy to speculate how such a tool could be designed.
> 
> Is there anybody in the community team (or another friendly volunteer
> on this list) who'd be comfortable writing a small Python script that
> fetches Onionoo data [1] and filters out contact information of relays
> matching given criteria?

I do have lots of scripts that interacts with CollecTor and uses stem to parse
it all. I've used Onionoo few times but with bash scripts and grep/awk magic.
However, I'm familiar with it so using Python for this would be easier I
believe.

If someone can specify for me the criteria for some scripts, I'm happy to do
it, it will take me few minutes I believe with what I have already.

> 
> That's how Compass [2] was started before it became a website, and
> it's how the t-shirt script [3] came to life (shortly before it was
> forgotten).
> 
> I could imagine that we start with a simple Python script that can be
> run whenever somebody from the community team is ready to reach out to
> new relay operators.
> 
> We could later automate that process by letting cron run that script
> once per week and have it send the output to some mailing list.  But
> that could be step two.

I can even do that as well! I already have so many scripts and cron running to
detect bad relays on our network and measure the network[1] so if I know what
we want from someone from the Community team, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Cheers!
David

[1] http://ygzf7uqcusp4ayjs.onion/tor-health/tor-health/index.html

> 
> Hope that helps as a start.
> 
> All the best,
> Karsten
> 
> 
> [1] https://onionoo.torproject.org/
> 
> [2] https://compass.torproject.org/
> 
> [3]
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-tasks.git/tree/task-9889/tshirt.py
> 
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