[tor-bugs] #24175 [Metrics/Website]: Use an embedded Jetty in metrics-web and use metrics-base as build environment.

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#24175: Use an embedded Jetty in metrics-web and use metrics-base as build
environment.
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 Reporter:  iwakeh           |          Owner:  iwakeh
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                   |         Points:
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Changes (by iwakeh):

 * status:  accepted => needs_review


Comment:

 First of all thanks for the data, it helped a lot!

 Please review the thirty something commits on
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/iwakeh/metrics-
 web.git/log/?h=task-24175-stepbystep this patch branch].  I didn't change
 anything, only ironed out tiny things.  The commits are for ease of review
 and partially examples for refactoring the modules, not so much suited for
 cherry picking.

 I created a ticket for removing the dependency on server locale.

 Most of comment:2 applies.  The open topic is solved with having data, but
 this is not part of this restructuring ticket.  This reproducibility issue
 concerns the two oldest dbs: userstats and tordir.  The R issue (mentioned
 in comment:2) in the clients module doesn't show up when a sufficient
 amount of data is available.

 What is not really reproducible from scratch is the tordir database (the
 oldest db here).  This issue has nothing to do with restructuring as it
 concerns the initial db setup.  The refresh_all call in the legacy module
 fails at call refresh_network_size.  After adding more data and running
 the other refresh functions by hand: refresh_all suddenly works.   This
 should be investigated in its own ticket in addition to the
 inconsistencies of the main db and the db setup, i.e. there are still
 functions in the data dump that are not in the sql scripts, for example:
 refresh_oldest_week.

 After ant war and jar: steps for setting up metrics-web: `ant run-web-
 prepare` prepares everything, `ant run-rserver` starts the R daemon, and
 `java -DLOGBASE=logs -jar generated/dist/metrics-web-1.0.0-dev.war` starts
 jetty.

 Two  more tickets needed: one each for making the setup of userstats and
 tordir db reproducible from scratch.

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