[tor-bugs] #25383 [Metrics/Website]: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files

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#25383: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files
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 Reporter:  karsten          |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:3 irl]:
 > #25240 is the relevant ticket, with the idea being to add some tweets to
 metrics-bot about the number of users. It sounds to me that the new graph
 based ones are better for this use case than the raw files under stats/.
 >
 > A few questions though:
 >
 > * Would we update stats.html to describe the format of the new CSV files
 along with the API for retrieving them programmatically?

 Ideally, the new CSV files won't need as much description as the old ones.
 Column names are chosen in reference to graphs, units are the same as in
 the graph, parameters are the same as for the graph, and so on. The
 current plan is to include a short comment header in the CSV files, see
 #25387. Ideally, we wouldn't have to write and maintain another HTML page
 for that. It's yet one more thing we need to write whenever we want to
 provide a new graph, and we'd want to make it easier to add new graphs,
 not harder.

 > * Do we describe how we get from CollecTor to the new graph based CSV
 files (which would include the steps necessary for getting to the
 stats/*.csv files)?

 Yes, this is still relevant. And this deserves a HTML page somewhere.
 Could be stats.html or a new page.

 > I'm not opposed to removing them from the website for the reason that I
 feel they are intermediate artefacts of the analysis/visualisation
 process, as long as we are not creating them with secret data that would
 not be accessible to others (afaik it's all in CollecTor) and as long as
 we describe our process.
 >
 > For most use cases I think the graph based CSV files are going to be
 easier for new researchers to get started with anyway.

 Sounds good!

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