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

[Karsten Loesing]

On 2020-08-28 20:29, David Fifield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:14:04AM +0200, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> I've added a `?` column and an explanation at the top. Entries with an
> "X" in the `?` column correspond to the old "Unknown" table. I chose a
> short string for the column name because GitLab limits the available
> horizontal space (the table is cut off in the middle of the "links"
> column for me). I chose "X" for the marker because it is easy to search
> for with ctrl+F and "match case".

Looks good!

>> 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.
> 
> Good idea, I've made the table sorted by reverse date.
> 
>> Just let me know when you're ready, and I'll start rewriting the parser.
> 
> I'm done with all the format changes I had thought of.

Okay, I just updated the parser, ran it, and redeployed the metrics website.

Can you take a look at the News page (and, if you want, the commit) and
say if anything looks obviously broken there?

https://metrics.torproject.org/news.html

https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-web.git/commit/?id=84d1c46b4241f8a2097236c5f81fb52b2805be39

Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten

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