Hello Tor, hello world! Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in October 2018 as well as a few expected highlights for the current month, November 2018. On behalf of the Tor metrics team, Karsten October 2018: Added a new graph to Tor Metrics that compares total consensus weights across bandwidth authorities [1, 2]. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/totalcw.html [2] https://bugs.torproject.org/25459 Extended the graphs on Tor Browser downloads by platform [3] and by locale [4] to also show Tor Browser update pings [5]. [3] https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-platform.html [4] https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-locale.html [5] https://bugs.torproject.org/27931 Worked towards extending metrics-web's ipv6servers module to cover existing statistics on relays by flags/versions/platforms [6]. The goal is to replace some really old code and to prepare creating new graphs on relays by consensus weight and bridges by versions/platforms. [6] https://bugs.torproject.org/28116 Deployed changes to streamline percentile computation in various metrics-web modules to now use Apache Commons Math rather than custom implementations [7]. [7] https://bugs.torproject.org/26035 Released CollecTor 1.8.0 [8] with some minor fixes and improved logging to hopefully track down an issue where we were missing server descriptors. [8] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-October/013493.html Improved monitoring of Onionoo uptime and freshness [9] [9] https://bugs.torproject.org/28271 November 2018: Start rewriting the CollecTor module that archives relay descriptors in Python using Stem as proof of concept. This is part of our Sponsor 13 work [10]. [10] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor13 Review and deploy the extended ipv6servers metrics-web module to replace major portions of the old legacy module [11]. [11] https://bugs.torproject.org/28116 Find a Metrics Data Architect as third full-time member of the metrics team. The job description [12] will soon be distributed by the usual channels and also linked from the Tor Metrics website. [12] https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-metrics-data-architect.html