commit f460ab8d9f3208d56bb3e668446bd6f31f91f889 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Jan 29 13:01:16 2017 -0800

Drop 'Expand Nyx' project idea

Though not successful we had a student for this last year and what we list here is no longer relevant. --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 52 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index a645967..2f19662 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -452,11 +452,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li> a bit more. </p>

- <p> - <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#expand_nyx">Expand Nyx</a></i> - </p> - <a id="project-orbot"></a> <h3><a href="https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/">Orbot</a> (<a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/orbot.git">code</a>, <a @@ -852,53 +847,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on. </p> </li>

- <a id="expand_nyx"></a> - <li> - <b>Expand Nyx</b> - <br> - Language: <i>Python</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Damian (atagar)</i> - <br><br> - <p> -Nyx (previously known as <a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/">arm</a>) is an -ncurses monitor that provides Tor relay operators... - </p> - - <ul> - <li><a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/images/screenshot_page1_full.png">bandwidth graphs and event log</a></li> - <li><a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/images/screenshot_page2_full.png">connections</a></li> - <li><a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/images/screenshot_page3_full.png">user's torrc</a></li> - <li><a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/images/screenshot_configPanel_full.png">config editor</a></li> - </ul> - - <p> -Nyx is presently under development in preparation for its next release. If you -like python, terminals, and collaborating on an active codebase this just might -be the project for you! - </p> - - <p> -Proposals should involve a grab-bag of moderately small improvements you'd like -to make. You're encouraged to brainstorm ideas of their own but here's a few to -get ya started... - </p> - - <ul> - <li>Bring back the <a href="https://www.atagar.com/arm/images/screenshot_interpretor_full.png">interpreter panel</a>. This panel was dropped when refactoring Nyx, but it would be a neat component to bring back. You can <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/nyx.git/tree/src/cli/interpretorPanel.py?h=release">find old code for it in the history</a> and Stem (the library backing Nyx) has a much improved <a href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/down_the_rabbit_hole.html">variant of this we can leverage</a>. This task would involve writing the curses code around Stem's interpreter functions.</li> - <li>Windows support. Like most curses applications Nyx doesn't run natively on Windows. We've had dozens of users request this and <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/arm#Windows">it should be possible</a>. This would involve supporting PDCurses and expanding Stem to be able to query the cpu/memory usage of the tor process.</li> - <li>Unit testing! Nyx has <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/nyx.git/tree/test">started adding tests</a> but it's still very minimal. Achieving any substantial code coverage will require us to figure out how to unit test curses components.</li> - <li>Onionoo provides additional relay information that could enrich our connection panel such as geoip and rdns. Trick is that at present we can only query it on a per-relay basis which would leak our connections (no-go for security). However, if we could get information about all relays in bulk it would sidestep this. For some old thoughts on this see <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/arm#CircuitDetails">here</a>.</li> - <li>Relay setup wizard. Our last release had this (screenshots: <a href="https://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard1.png">1</a>, <a href="https://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard2.png">2</a>, <a href="https://www.atagar.com/transfer/tmp/arm_wizard3.png">3</a>). This has been removed because including it directly in Nyx confused users, but we might want to resurrect it as a separate <i>setup-tor-relay</i> command.</li> - <li><a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18499">Improved dialog</a> for selecting events to log.</li> - <li>... and more! Again, don't hesitate to propose ideas of your own.</li> - </ul> - - <p> - <b>As part of your application for this project please get your hands wet with the codebase by contributing patches for <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/nyx.git">Nyx</a> and <a href="https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#how-do-i-get-started">Stem</a>!</b> - </p> - </li> - <a id="descriptor_parsing_in_go"></a> <li> <b>Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go</b>