<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi,<br><div dir="ltr"><br>On 4 Jun 2019, at 15:29, juga <<a href="mailto:juga@riseup.net">juga@riseup.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>teor:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hi juga,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I read your meeting notes from this week's network team meeting:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>juga(offline):</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Week of 05/20 (planned)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> - Add Tor version to the bandwidth file (#30196)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Week of 05/20 (actual)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> Week of 06/03 (plan)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> - Continue with #30406: Refactor header constants in sbws to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>use Stem's one</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For the next few weeks, can you focus on fixing critical sbws bugs,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>and helping with authority deployments?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Yes, i'll do my best with the little time i've to continue with sbws.</span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Please let us know if you need help.</div><div><br></div><div>Until we get more sbws funding, we won't have much time to spend</div><div>on sbws features (like extra diagnostic information). But we can</div><div>spend a bit of time fixing critical sbws bugs.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span>Here's what I think we could do:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I would like us to deploy sbws to 3/6 bandwidth authorities some time</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in June. We can do this deployment as soon as another directory</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>authority operator is ready.</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>There's another authority operator ready. If you think we don't need to</span><br><span>fix any bug before a 3rd directory authority runs sbws, i can tell them</span><br><span>to start running sbws.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes please!</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To deploy more than 3 sbws instances, we need to fix these critical sbws</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>bugs:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We need sbws to generate bandwidth lines for all relays with results,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>even if they are not Running in the sbws tor client's current consensus.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29710#comment:13">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29710#comment:13</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We need sbws to use MaxAdvertisedBandwidth from the latest descriptors:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30733">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30733</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We also need to look for any more critical bugs in sbws. Here are some</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>ways we can check for bugs:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>We need to check if all sbws instances exclude some relays, to help us find</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>any more bugs in sbws:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30735">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30735</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>90% of sbws measurement attempts fail. But these are internal errors, not</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>network errors. So it looks like sbws has a relay selection bug:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30719#comment:2">https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30719#comment:2</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>After we do these tasks, we can deploy sbws to 4 bandwidth authorities.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>What do you think?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>I'll look at all these bugs more in detail.</span><br><span>How many directory authorities would we like to be running sbws (after</span><br><span>those bugs are fixed) by which date?.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think switching one per month is a good idea:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013869.html">https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013869.html</a></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>BTW, longclaw's sbws did not have network for ~1 days (which for sure</span><br><span>has affected to some metrics), i should have documented that somewhere,</span><br><span>not sure there's a better place for that than trac.</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>I'm not really sure. Sending a quick email to tor-dev might be a good idea.</div><div><br></div><div>T</div></body></html>