[tor-bugs] #6395 [Metrics Data Processor]: Can we remove GetTor statistics from metrics-*?

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#6395: Can we remove GetTor statistics from metrics-*?
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 Reporter:  karsten                 |          Owner:     
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Component:  Metrics Data Processor  |        Version:     
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 The graph on packages requested from GetTor was broken for six weeks
 between early June and mid-July, and hardly anybody noticed.  The problem
 (#6275) is fixed as of today (thanks kaner!), but this bug makes me think
 whether we need these statistics at all.

 Graphing requested GetTor packages involves quite a bit of code in
 different places, including: GetTor, metrics-db, metrics-lib, and metrics-
 web.  Each code place periodically needs maintenance: there are bugs such
 as #6275, new code like metrics-lib or stem need parsing support if they
 want to support all metrics data, etc.  We added these statistics a few
 years back upon sponsor request, but that sponsor isn't paying for
 maintenance anymore (or ever since).  GetTor data is of little value for
 learning interesting stuff about the Tor network as a whole, and we
 wouldn't add statistics for similar services to metrics for maintenance
 reasons.  Just because we have GetTor statistics is a rather bad reason
 for keeping them.

 I suggest archiving the GetTor stats file and graphs we have and removing
 all stats generating and processing code from the various code bases.

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