Hi all,
here's what I did in July. The numbers in [] are the ticket number and percentage of my total developer time in July.
Best, Karsten
Briefly looked into Maxmind's GeoIP database that started labeling relays as coming from the "A1 -- Anonymous Proxy" country. We'll need to fix that, or users won't be able to exclude relays by country, and our country-based usage statistics will deteriorate. We switched back to the May database for now, but that's only a short-term solution. [#6266, 2%]
Made the consensus-health script print out diffs of recommended version sets. [#6261, 1%]
Fixed a problem with Tomcat running out of memory on the metrics server, which was related to Java's leap second bug. [#6270, 2%]
Looked up the number of crypto operations on a typical relay for designing a hardware Tor device. [#6369, 5%]
Started converting the first five old tech reports to a common Tor Tech Report format. Zack was really helpful here by writing an improved LaTeX template and tweaking the existing reports. [#5405, 8%]
Helped delber write a Python script to compute statistics about current relays. This script is the second really useful front-end for the Onionoo service. [#6329, 12%]
Extracted probabilities of relays to be selected for a given position in order to add more graphs to Onionoo. The next step will be to extend Atlas to display the new graph data. [#5755, 31%]
Helped Sathya write a script to extract data on network entropy and degree of anonymity over time. Ran the script on local tiny number cruncher, which kept it busy for 12 hours, and plotted graphs. [#6232, 14%]
Fixed an issue with too frequent consensus-health messages reporting expiring certs. [N/A, 1%]
Extracted and graphed cumulative probabilities of clients selecting among the biggest k exits. [#6443, 13%]
Discussed and prepared removing GetTor statistics from all metrics codebases. [#6395, 3%]
Made metrics website graph colors easier to distinguish for people with color-deficient vision. [#6463, 2%]
Reviewed Walter's new interactive metrics graphs on http://tigerpa.ws/tor_metrics/ and fixed a few metrics bugs while doing so. [N/A, 6%]