[tor-bugs] #10708 [Tor Weather]: Consider making Weather's daily t-shirt notifications a separate service

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#10708: Consider making Weather's daily t-shirt notifications a separate service
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     Reporter:  karsten      |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  closed
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Weather  |    Version:
   Resolution:  fixed        |   Keywords:  weather-rewrite
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Changes (by karsten):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => fixed


Comment:

 Hmm.  I just had a closer look at the Weather code, and I think there's a
 misunderstanding how t-shirt notifications work.

 Weather sends out welcome mails to relay operators whose relay got the
 Stable flag for the first time and invites them to subscribe to Weather.
 When a relay qualifies for a t-shirt, Weather notifies all subscribed
 users.  But Weather ''does not'' send out t-shirt notifications to non-
 subscribed users.  (Please somebody correct me if I read the code wrong.)

 In my opinion, this process is quite a bit better than a service that only
 sends out emails when a relay qualifies for a t-shirt.  The current
 process gets in touch with relay operators much earlier and shows them
 that we care about their relay.  It's also a fine motivation to promise
 operators a t-shirt they can get weeks later if they continue running
 their relay, which is not the case if we only send them email when they
 already qualified.

 So, if we want this somewhat more complex process (welcome mail,
 subscription, t-shirt notification), we'll need something like Weather.  A
 simple script with local state is not sufficient for that.

 I'm closing this ticket, because I think we should be focusing on fixing
 current Weather and not change its functionality for now.

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