[tor-project] Globe is now retired (was: Plan to retire Globe)

[Karsten Loesing]

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Hello everyone,

tl;dr: Globe is now retired in favor of an improved Atlas.

On 30/04/16 10:00, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 23/04/16 17:37, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
> 
>> as the subject says, I suggest that we retire Globe (currently 
>> available at https://globe.torproject.org/).
> 
>> The main reason is that Globe is serving a similar purpose as 
>> Atlas (available at https://atlas.torproject.org/), which it was 
>> forked from several years ago.  Neither Atlas nor Globe are 
>> actively developed, they only receive critical bug fixes
>> whenever necessary.  And thanks, Philipp and Isis, for doing
>> that!
> 
>> So, when deciding which of the two services we should keep, I 
>> looked at the number of daily requests to both services, which 
>> shows that Globe is used a lot less than Atlas:
> 
>> https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/atlas-globe-2016-04-01.png
>
>>  The hope is that retiring Globe could make it more likely that 
>> new developers start contributing to Atlas.  It would also make
>> it easier for us to add new feature to Atlas, because we wouldn't
>> feel bad for not adding them to Globe, too.  In any case, we're
>> getting rid of yet one more thing.
> 
>> Here's a suggested timeline for retiring Globe:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> - By May 31 (hopefully), we'll have implemented, reviewed,
>> merged, and deployed the missing features in Atlas, and we'll
>> shut down Globe. We should probably add a static web page
>> pointing to Atlas. If it takes longer than this, it takes longer,
>> but let's use this date for now.  Maybe nobody will be missing
>> anything from Globe. We'll see.

We're one month behind, but we're finally there!

Thanks at lot to irl for contributing the missing patches and for
making Atlas better!  Thanks to phw for reviewing and deploying patches!

The Globe instance at https://globe.torproject.org/ is now retired.

I left the instance at https://globe.thecthulhu.com/ in place for now,
but it may disappear without further notice.

All the best,
Karsten
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