[tor-relays] Useful metrics for relay operators

[Alison]

Hello all,

After Roger's recent checkin emails to this list, some of the folks from
the community and metrics teams have started to brainstorm ways that we
could use Onionoo data [1] to give better support and recognition to the
relay operators. For example, a weekly mail of all the relays that just
passed the "earned a tshirt" threshold, or some other threshold about
how much bandwidth they've pushed over a period of time. The community
team would then contact the operator(s) and congratulate them, thank
them for their service, see if we can
offer them help in any other ways, and so forth.

I'd like to hear directly from relay operators about what kinds of
metrics they might like to see involved in a project like this. Have you
achieved milestones with your relays that you wished Tor Project would
have given you some recognition for? Have there been specific times
you'd wished for a checkin email, like the one Roger sent (eg 3 months
after starting a new relay)? Anything else that you think Onionoo could
measure that would be valuable for you as an operator?

Thank you so much for running relays! Looking forward to hearing from you.

Alison

[1] https://onionoo.torproject.org/