Author: atagar Date: 2013-03-19 14:33:02 +0000 (Tue, 19 Mar 2013) New Revision: 26119 Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml Log: Adding a project idea for rewriting Doctor in python Cross metrics/stem project from Karsten for rewriting Doctor in python, using stem for the descriptor support and expanding it to be able to remotely fetch descriptors. Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-19 04:02:00 UTC (rev 26118) +++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-19 14:33:02 UTC (rev 26119) @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ <p> <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> <i><a href="#txtorcon-stemIntegration">Txtorcon/Stem Integration</a></i><br /> + <i><a href="#metrics-pyDoctor">PyDoctor</a></i><br /> <i><a href="#stemUsability">Stem Usability and Porting</a></i><br /> <i><a href="#stemTestingForTor">Stem Tests for Tor</a></i> </p> @@ -655,6 +656,7 @@ <p> <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> + <i><a href="#metrics-pyDoctor">PyDoctor</a></i><br /> <i><a href="#metricsSearch">Searchable Tor descriptor and Metrics data archive</a></i> (Python/Django?) </p> @@ -841,6 +843,33 @@ <ol> + <a id="metrics-pyDoctor"></a> + <li> + <b>PyDoctor</b> + <br> + Effort Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Skill Level: <i>Medium</i> + <br> + Likely Mentors: <i>karsten, Damian (atagar)</i> + <p><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git">DocTor</a>, also + known as the consensus-health checker, is a service that periodically + checks the Tor network for consensus conflicts and other hiccups. In order + to do so it downloads the Tor consensus and votes from the Tor directory + authorities and checks them for consensus problems. DocTor writes its + findings to local files which can then be sent to a <a + href="https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-consensus-health">mailing + list</a> or IRC bot (nsa in #tor-bots on OFTC), or which can be served by + an <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html">HTTP + server</a>.</p> + + <p>This project would be about rewriting DocTor in Python and using Stem + for the descriptor parsing. This would require extending Stem to download + consensuses and votes (and later server descriptors for Damian's + consensus checker), and it would require rewriting the DocTor code in + Python.</p> + </li> + <a id="txtorcon-stemIntegration"></a> <li> <b>Txtorcon/Stem Integration</b>