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

[Karsten Loesing]

On 2020-08-28 10:02, David Fifield wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:37:44PM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> I just created a new GitLab project here:
>>
>> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/timeline
>>
>> (The "metrics-" in "metrics-timeline" seemed redundant, and we don't
>> have that for other subprojects under tpo/metrics/, so I dropped that.)
>>
>> I also added you as developer which should in theory give you all
>> necessary permissions to push to the new repository.
>>
>> Does this work for you? Let me know if you need anything else!
> 
> I've rewritten the scripts to read/write the Markdown format and
> populated the repo:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/timeline
> 
> Does this look like it will work?

Looks great! I haven't started the parser rewrite, but I'm optimistic
that it will work!

> As long as we're having to rewrite parsers, I want to know what you
> think about combining the main table and the "Unknown" table into one
> table, by adding an additional boolean column that is called
> "explained?" or something like that. My original intent behind having a
> separate "Unknown" table was to obviously mark and make easy to find the
> entries that are unfinished and need more investigation. But it hasn't
> worked out that way; entries seem to remain "Unknown" forever and now
> there are quite a few of them. The drawback of having two tables is that
> they form two time series which you need to mentally interleave if you
> are reading the tables in order.

Sounds like a reasonable change. Yes, please make that change.

If you want to make other changes to the format, now's indeed a good
time to do that.

One thing that you might want to consider is sorting table entries in
descending order. That's certainly a personal preference, but I'd guess
that more people look at the most recent (and hence most relevant)
entries if they don't have to scroll down to the end. Obviously, the
parser wouldn't have to change for this.

Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll start rewriting the parser.

Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten

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