After Roger's recent checkin emails to this list, some of the folks from the community and metrics teams have started to brainstorm ways that we could use Onionoo data [1] to give better support and recognition to the relay operators. For example, a weekly mail of all the relays that just passed the "earned a tshirt" threshold, or some other threshold about how much bandwidth they've pushed over a period of time. The community team would then contact the operator(s) and congratulate them, thank them for their service, see if we can offer them help in any other ways, and so forth.
I'd like to hear directly from relay operators about what kinds of metrics they might like to see involved in a project like this. Have you achieved milestones with your relays that you wished Tor Project would have given you some recognition for? Have there been specific times you'd wished for a checkin email, like the one Roger sent (eg 3 months after starting a new relay)? Anything else that you think Onionoo could measure that would be valuable for you as an operator?
It would be nice if atlas would show absolute and relative trending information about how well a relay (or family) does (better, worse, unchanged) when it comes to CW and CW fraction. i.e. with arrow up / down signs with green/red indicators
"This relay's CW fraction increased by xx"
To better interpret this information, it could be put in context with:
"...while the tor network grew by xxx 'cw capacity' "
"This relay's absolute CW value increased by xx"
I find it best to use weekly stats (compare last 7 days vs. the week before that) to ignore day of the week fluctuations.
For the general health of the tor network I would find it good if relay operators looking at their relays on atlas get an immediate traffic light based indicator:
examples:
green: relay runs the latest stable version, has non-empty contactinfo
yellow: empty contactinfo, myfamily misconfiguration, plaintext protocols only in exit policy
red: runs not recommended version
Or maybe have a rating with letters A, B, C, D, ... instead of a traffic light based approach.