[tor-project] Plan to shut down Tor Weather

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 17/03/16 05:37, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> Hello Karsten,
> 
> Do you think rewriting/maintaining/fixing Tor Weather would make a
> nice GSoC project? What I mean by this is that do you think it can
> be three months of work at least, with scope for future
> improvements to be carried out later?
> 
> If yes, we should propose this as a GSoC project and then see if we
> can find someone to mentor it.

Fine questions.  Maybe take a look at the Weather in 2014 wiki page:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/weather-in-2014

I'm not enough of a web front-end developer to say how hard it is to
rewrite Weather.  But I think the back-end can be easily solved by
using Onionoo's data instead of writing a Tor controller and keeping
an own relay database.

I think three months is sufficient to produce something useful.

The question of finding a mentor might be more difficult to answer.  I
would offer to be backup mentor and also to answer questions about
Onionoo.  But we'd still have to find a primary mentor.  How about you? :)

All the best,
Karsten

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