[tor-reports] Karsten's December 2015

[Karsten Loesing]

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metrics-lib
 - Reviewed and merged a fix that makes TorperfResults preserve @type
annotations (#17696).
 - Merged a patch to parse flag thresholds in BridgeNetworkStatus and
RelayNetworkStatusVote (#17617).
 - Reviewed and merged iwakeh's patch that introduces a new
ExitList.Entry type (#17821).
 - Added support for .xz compressed tarballs (#16424).
 - Switched to using Java 7's diamond operator (#17823) and switch on
String (#17824) based on suggestions by iwakeh.
 - Fixed a few places where we were using StringBuilder incorrectly
(#17830) based on a suggestion by iwakeh.
 - Merged a patch to distinguish between relay and bridge descriptors
(#17000).
 - Added support for recently added crypto and for hidden-service
statistics (#17872).
 - Improved the release process and put out the first release 1.0.0
(#13166) and later 1.1.0: https://dist.torproject.org/descriptor/

CollecTor
 - Added @type annotation to each Torperf measurement in the archives
(#17755).

Metrics
 - Discussed Scaling Tor Metrics on tor-dev at .

Onionoo
 - Looked into Onionoo's serious load problems and discovered that we
forgot to enable Apache's disk cache after moving to a new host
(#17803):
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/onionoo-requests-2015-12-11.png
 - Fixed two inconsistencies between protocol and implementation
(#17885) spotted by vi.

Metrics Team
 - Wrote slides for 32C3 State of the Onion talk that Roger kindly
presented on behalf of the Metrics Team.
 - Held two IRC meetings.

Compass
 - Merged patch by clv to stop using Onionoo's "family" field (#17720).

Atlas
 - Reviewed patch by clv to stop using Onionoo's "family" field (#16961).

Organizational
 - Started tracking Tor organizational roadmap items and sending out
weekly updates on them.
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