On 1 Sep 2016, at 02:51, Alison <macrina@riseup.net> wrote:

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?

We already use Onionoo to identify and choose fallback directory mirrors. Every release, we identify operators of long-term stable relays, and ask them if they are able to be a fallback directory mirror. Then we choose a slightly different set of fallbacks for each release. These fallbacks help new clients contact the Tor network when the directory authorities are blocked. While it's not a t-shirt, it does recognise an important contribution to the network. And we do hard-code the relay details in the Tor source code. When we do the 0.2.9 fallback update, I'll make sure I keep others on the Tor team in the loop, so that relay operators know who to contact if I'm away. (Oh, and please let us know if you're getting *too much* email!) Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP C855 6CED 5D90 A0C5 29F6 4D43 450C BA7F 968F 094B ricochet:ekmygaiu4rzgsk6n xmpp: teor at torproject dot org

On 31/08/2016 18:51, Alison wrote:

Hello all,

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?

I would find very useful a mail notification when the ed25519 key's expiration date is near and the OfflineMasterKey is enabled. Also if the expiry information could be shown on atlas that would be nice.