Hi Karsten, this projects seems cool and I would like to participate in this project. But I am new to the TOR environment (this was my new years resolution after I heared the Applebaum Keynote from the 29C3, so I am only 1 year late). Kind Regards Norbert Am 09.01.2014 09:41, schrieb Karsten Loesing:

Hello coders,

is anyone here looking for a fun new project to hack on? Here's something you could do to help grow the Tor network:

We're planning to decommission the currently unmaintained Tor Weather which provides an email notification service to any users who want to monitor the status of a Tor node. And we'd like to replace it with a clean rewrite of this service.

https://weather.torproject.org/

(You're asking why we're not simply trying to find a new maintainer? That's also an option, but a clean rewrite that uses the Onionoo service would be much smaller and easier to maintain in the future. Read on to find out more.)

Here's what the rewritten Weather should do:

- Maintain a list of subscriptions, consisting of an email address, a password, a relay identity fingerprint, how soon the user wants to be notified of problems, when it was last notified, etc.

- Allow users to create, read, update, and delete subscriptions via a web interface. All these operations should have the usual security features like email address verification, password login, etc.

- Allow users to search for relays to subscribe for by relay IP address, relay identity fingerprint, or relay nickname. This search can be done with help of Onionoo's search feature, or by simply adding a link to Atlas (https://atlas.torproject.org/) or Globe (https://globe.torproject.org/).

- Once per hour, download a list from Onionoo that contains relays that have been running in the last week. Check if there are any relays that have been offline for long enough to notify a subscribed user. Send out emails.

- Once per day, download bandwidth histories of relays from Onionoo and check whether a relay has been running long enough and fast enough that the operator should be offered a t-shirt. Send out emails, regardless of subscriptions, and ask if operators would want one.

As you can see, most of the work can be done with help of Onionoo. The parts that need to be written are a web and an email interface, a small database for subscriptions, and some glue code to talk to Onionoo.

(And if you still favor the variant where somebody maintains the current Weather, be aware that it needs to parse Tor descriptors and keep its own relay database to do searches, to check how long relays are offline, and to decide which relay operators should get a t-shirt.)

Here's some more information on the Onionoo service:

https://onionoo.torproject.org/

Happy to provide more information!

All the best, Karsten _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

On 01/10/14 13:52, Karsten Loesing wrote:

On 1/9/14 8:02 PM, Nufuk wrote:

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Hi Karsten,

this projects seems cool and I would like to participate in this project. But I am new to the TOR environment (this was my new years resolution after I heared the Applebaum Keynote from the 29C3, so I am only 1 year late).

Kind Regards

Norbert

Hi Norbert,

awesome, the more the merrier! Glad to hear that you want to help!

I just created a wiki page for the Weather rewrite, so that we can coordinate efforts and avoid duplicating work. Want to add yourself to the list of contributors?

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/weather-in-2014

Abhiram, want to add yourself to that wiki page, too?

Sure thing.

All the best, Karsten

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Hello Norbert, Thanks for joining in. For now the wiki-page seems like good place to start. If you have any questions, do email me. -- Abhiram Chintangal Graduate Student Computer Science Department Florida State University