[metrics-team] A new home for the Metrics Timeline?

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El 8/20/20 a las 2:28 PM, David Fifield escribió:
> The metrics timeline is a database of events that could have an effect
> on Tor Metrics graphs. It was formerly maintained on the Trac wiki.
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2020-August/001153.html
> Metrics tools parsed the wiki markup and used the information to make
> the "Related events" tables under graphs on metrics.torproject.org.
> 
> But now the Trac wiki is read-only, so the timeline cannot be updated.
> KuroNeko wanted to add an event but couldn't:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2020-August/001153.html
> 
> I was to discuss finding a new home for the metrics timeline. Here are a
> couple of options.
> 
> OPTION 1: Use a wiki page on GitLab.
> There are already a couple of copies of the timeline on the GitLab wiki,
> one automatically migrated with slightly broken markup, and one cleaned
> up by Cecylia.
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/MetricsTimeline
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Censorship-Events
> PROS: In principle, interested volunteers can request a GitLab account
> and edit the wiki. Doesn't require any special tools to edit.
> CONS: GitLab markup is different from Trac markup, so new parsers will
> have to be written. It's easy to break the format by accident.
> 
> OPTION 2: Use a CSV file in a Git repository.
> My thinking in putting the timeline on a wiki page was to enable the
> public to add events, without needing to go through a burdensome process
> to set up credentials. In practice, though, I think not many took
> advantage of it. We could instead host it in a Git repository.
> PROS: Doesn't require a specialized parser. More independent of the
> GitLab wiki; can host tools and documentation in the same repository.
> Better versioning.
> CONS: Higher barrier to contribution. A little less human-editable.
> 
> Any other options?


The wiki in gitlab is a git repository. We could host the CSV in

the metrics wiki repo
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/team/-/wikis/git_access) that
gets parsed into https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/team/-/wikis/

or

the anti-censorship wiki repo
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/git_access)
that gets parsed into
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis

and link it from the same wiki page itself.

> 
> In the meantime, I have been keeping track of a few new events just in a
> local copy of
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MetricsTimeline?format=txt
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