On 23 Apr (17:37:03), Karsten Loesing wrote:
Hello everyone,
as the subject says, I suggest that we retire Globe (currently available at https://globe.torproject.org/).
The main reason is that Globe is serving a similar purpose as Atlas (available at https://atlas.torproject.org/), which it was forked from several years ago. Neither Atlas nor Globe are actively developed, they only receive critical bug fixes whenever necessary. And thanks, Philipp and Isis, for doing that!
So, when deciding which of the two services we should keep, I looked at the number of daily requests to both services, which shows that Globe is used a lot less than Atlas:
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/atlas-globe-2016-04-01.png
I am probably causing a significant portion of those requests tbh. I use Globe quite a bit especially when investiguating bad relays.
Anyway, Tim mentionned it below that a simple URL rewrite to the fingerprint search to Altas would be needed. I've seen links to Globe in commits and in the dirauth-conf bad configuration. They they could be changed and track down all Globe URLs but a simple rewrite would simply make it simpler.
The hope is that retiring Globe could make it more likely that new developers start contributing to Atlas. It would also make it easier for us to add new feature to Atlas, because we wouldn't feel bad for not adding them to Globe, too. In any case, we're getting rid of yet one more thing.
I'm good with Atlas. There are things that annoys me with it but if we only have one portal, it's a good reason for me to concentrate on fixing what annoys me instead of going to Globe :).
Thanks for this! David
Here's a suggested timeline for retiring Globe:
- By April 30, we create Trac tickets for all features we like in
Globe and that are missing in Atlas. These tickets would go in component "Metrics/Atlas" in Trac. If you want to keep something in Atlas that you like in Globe, this is your chance to make that happen!
- By May 15, we'll have reviewed those new tickets and decided which
of them we should implement before shutting down Globe. We might send a call for help to tor-dev@ to write these patches.
- By May 31 (hopefully), we'll have implemented, reviewed, merged,
and deployed the missing features in Atlas, and we'll shut down Globe. We should probably add a static web page pointing to Atlas. If it takes longer than this, it takes longer, but let's use this date for now. Maybe nobody will be missing anything from Globe. We'll see.
Suggestions welcome, not only if you strongly object!
All the best, Karsten _______________________________________________ tor-project mailing list tor-project@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project