Roger Dingledine:
And speaking of community-building, are there volunteers lined up who would contact bridge operators if given the chance, or is this more of a theoretical "maybe it would happen"?
I'll eventually add a check for "is exit operator also a bridge operator?" and might contact operators in such cases (I'm not saying this is 'communicty-building').
Thought 4: In retrospect, it would be good to have some initial analysis of the (currently secret) data set. For example, how many bridges set contactinfo, and how many don't? How many of each of those are 'fast' (popular) bridges? What fraction of the contactinfos are actually a usable email address? How many bridge families are there now, i.e. bridges that use the same contact email address? Maybe most bridges don't set it currently, so this whole question doesn't matter much, or maybe many of them set it but obfuscate it, which will make your notification plan harder than you predicted.
I really like T4.
thanks for your thoughts!