[tor-bugs] #10675 [Tor Sysadmin Team]: Please create a very restricted logs of hits on the RecommendedTBBVersions file

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#10675: Please create a very restricted logs of hits on the RecommendedTBBVersions
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Comment (by karsten):

 On reflection, I'd rather not want this graph to be added to the metrics
 website.

 The reason is that this takes way more than a few lines of code to draw
 the graph, and I'm worried about the maintenance effort in the long run.
 To give you an idea, here's what it would take to put this graph on the
 metrics website:

  1. Define a data format of the new log files and put it on
 https://metrics.torproject.org/formats.html.
  1. Extend metrics-db to collect the new logs and make them available via
 rsync and/or in monthly tarballs.
  1. Extend metrics-lib to parse the new file format.
  1. Extend metrics-web to process the new data and produce a new CSV file
 similar to the ones on https://metrics.torproject.org/stats.html, and
 specify the new CSV file format on that page.
  1. Extend metrics-web to draw a graph and put it on the website.

 I understand that most people only care about step 5 here.  But the real
 purpose of metrics is to collect and archive interesting data about the
 Tor network and make them available to researchers and interested people.
 The graphs are just one output of metrics, and certainly the most visible,
 but not the most important.

 Note that I kicked out GetTor package downloads a while ago for the same
 reasons why I don't want to add RecommendedTBBVersions hits now.  Somebody
 has to maintain all this code.

 Can these new graphs live on check.tpo maybe?

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