commit 62d28935743d3195e4e0f8f49a62e22bec1b3f9b Author: Damian Johnson <atagar@torproject.org> Date: Sun Jan 29 13:04:44 2017 -0800 Drop 'Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go' project idea We had an applicant look into this last year. I don't recall all the details but I recall us backing off on it as a bad idea. --- getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml | 42 ------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 42 deletions(-) diff --git a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml index 2f19662..84fadf9 100644 --- a/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml +++ b/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml @@ -567,11 +567,6 @@ meetings around the world.</li> Tor. </p> - <p> - <b>Project Ideas:</b><br /> - <i><a href="#descriptor_parsing_in_go">Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go</a></i> - </p> - <a id="project-txtorcon"></a> <h3><a href="https://txtorcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Txtorcon</a> (<a href="https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon">code</a>, <a @@ -847,43 +842,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on. </p> </li> - <a id="descriptor_parsing_in_go"></a> - <li> - <b>Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go</b> - <br> - Language: <i>Go, Python</i> - <br> - Likely Mentors: <i>Damian (atagar), Philipp (phw)</i> - <br><br> - <p> - Tor consists of two parts: the application and a distributed network of a - few thousand volunteer relays. Information about these relays is public, - and made up of documents called <b><a href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#what-is-a-descriptor">descriptors</a></b>. We have - <a href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#are-there-any-other-parsing-libraries">three libraries capable of reading these documents</a>... - </p> - - <ul> - <li><b><a href="https://stem.torproject.org/">Stem</a></b> (Python)</li> - <li><b><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-lib.git/">Metrics-lib</a></b> (Java)</li> - <li><b><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/phw/zoossh.git/">Zoossh</a></b> (Go)</li> - </ul> - - <p> - Stem is the most feature rich but slowest, and conversely Zoossh is fastest - but limited. But what if Stem used CFFI bindings to do the heavy lifting in - Go? Could we unify these libraries, getting the feature set of Stem with - the performance of Zoossh? - </p> - - <p> - <b>Applicants should be familiar with both Python and Go. As part of your - application for this project please write a demo CFFI binding for Stem as a - proof of concept.</b> Bonus points if you <a - href="https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#how-do-i-get-started">get your - hands wet by contributing patches</a>! - </p> - </li> - <a id="txtorcon_use_txaio"></a> <li> <b>Convert txtorcon to use txaio</b>