[tor-bugs] #10680 [Analysis]: Obtain attributes of current public bridges

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#10680: Obtain attributes of current public bridges
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     Reporter:  sysrqb    |      Owner:
         Type:  task      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Analysis  |    Version:
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Comment (by sysrqb):

 Replying to [comment:7 karsten]:
 > Replying to [comment:5 sysrqb]:
 > > Replying to [comment:1 karsten]:
 > > > I wonder, should we use the output of your script to complement the
 [https://metrics.torproject.org/stats.html#servers servers.csv] file
 provided by metrics-web?  There are a few requirements for that, though:
 > >
 > > I think this would be great! I think the only data point we can't
 supply is the country of the bridge, but that's not a huge loss.
 >
 > Right, we'd have to include country codes in sanitized bridge
 descriptors for that.  But we also don't have country codes of relays
 these days, so that's fine.  Future work.
 >
 > > I can definitely adapt the script to produce the necessary info and
 output to csv. We might actually want more information, so I might make
 this the default output (or produce the csv by providing a command line
 option). Another option is to create a script specifically for this and
 create a second script that produces a superset of metrics/bridge
 attributes.
 >
 > What additional information would you want to include?  Maybe we can
 extend the CSV file format?  In theory, the format should allow pretty
 much everything you'd want to include in a graph.

 The only metric we (I?) are specifically looking at right now is the
 number of bridges that correctly configure their ExtOR port. Metrics
 currently tells us very useful information about PT usage, but we don't
 actually know how many bridges are providing this information. We may also
 want other metrics so we can answer more interesting questions after we
 see these.
 > > You'll accept a python script? :) I can write it in java, if you
 prefer, though.
 >
 > Python is fine!  If you stick to the requirements above with all input
 data coming from the rsync'ed directory and all output data being one or
 more .csv files, then that's all I need to integrate your script into
 metrics-web.  Feel free to start hacking on this in a metrics-tasks.git
 branch, and we'll move over the result to metrics-web when it's ready.

 Excellent. I'll start integrating what we've discussed and start commiting
 it to a metrics-tasks repo.

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