[metrics-team] Input for July 2016 team report

[Karsten Loesing]

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Hello team,

we're currently planning to resume writing monthly team reports
starting with July 2016.  The goals are to inform the rest of the Tor
community what the metrics team is doing and also to have better input
for writing the MOSS award report in a year from now.

Did you complete something related to Tor metrics in July that should
go into the team report?  If so, please let me know off-list in the
next 24 hours, as I'd like to publish the report on Friday.  If you
have any questions, let's talk about them at tomorrow's team meeting
or on this list.

Some guidelines for our team reports:

 - Let's aim for making the report comprehensible for non-metrics or
even non-Tor people by including non-technical explanations.  We can
still include links and ticket numbers for people who want to read
more details.

 - Let's only include work that was completed in a given month.  It's
too easy to say many words about how much progress one made and how
close one is to completing something, and yet it's still words.  We
should reward completing tasks over writing good prose.

 - Let's order updates by visibility to the average user, even if that
hurts a bit because it's different from the effort spent on something.
 I guess that things that are visible on a website are easy to
understand as well as new software releases, but that internal
improvements to software quality are more difficult to understand.

 - Let's post to tor-reports@ rather than tor-project@, because this
team report belongs to the other reports.  Whoever wants to read
reports should subscribe there.

 - Let's not get into lengthy discussions on the team mailing list
what should be mentioned in the report and how.  We should keep the
overhead for writing reports low and rather spend more time on writing
code.

Here are two random examples for things I'd like to include in the
July 2016 report:

 - Added a new graph to Tor Metrics that shows a possible range of the
number of clients by country and transport and which reveals the most
popular pluggable transports in any given country [1] (#19544).

 - Repackaged 161 tarballs in the Tor network archive provided by
CollecTor [2] to make sure that each descriptor is sorted into the
correct monthly tarball (#19433).

[1]
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?country=us

[2] https://collector.torproject.org/

Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten
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