[tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued

Jason jason at icetor.is
Thu Jun 2 18:13:32 UTC 2016


Oi!

I found it extremely useful for notifications on my exits.

Is it safe to assume the code is FOSS and repo'd somewhere?

-Jason

On 6/2/2016 5:21 PM, Greg Moss wrote:
> *Again, sorry for any inconvenience -
>
> Oh no worries. No one used it anyway-
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tor-relays [mailto:tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org] On Behalf
> Of Karsten Loesing
> Sent: Thursday, June 2, 2016 7:56 AM
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Tor Weather has been discontinued
>
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> Dear relay operators,
>
> I learned today that Tor Weather is already offline since May 24 due to
> problems with our hosting company.
>
> We briefly thought about recreating it from backups, but it seems that we'd
> rather spend that effort on other things.
>
> Again, sorry for any inconvenience.
>
> All the best,
> Karsten
>
>
> On 04/04/16 16:48, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Dear relay operators,
>>
>> as of April 4, 2016, Tor Weather has been discontinued.
>>
>> Tor Weather [0] provided an email notification service to any user who
>> wanted to monitor the status of a Tor node.  Upon subscribing, they
>> could specify what types of alerts they would like to receive.
>> The main purpose of Tor Weather was to notify node operators via email
>> if their node was down for longer than a specified period, but other
>> notification types were available, including one where operators would
>> be informed when their node was around long enough to qualify for a
>> t-shirt.
>>
>> The main reason for discontinuing Tor Weather is the fact that
>> software requires maintenance, and Tor Weather is no exception.
>> Tor Weather was promising t-shirts for relays that have not been
>> around long enough or that provided too little bandwidth to be useful
>> to the network, and it was almost impossible to deny a t-shirt after
>> Tor Weather has promised it.  Apart from that, Tor Weather was likely
>> not offering t-shirts to people who have long earned it, thereby
>> confusing them.  An unreliable notification system is worse than not
>> having a system at all.  Relay operators shouldn't rely on Tor Weather
>> to notify them when their relay fails.  They should rather set up
>> their own system instead.
>>
>> We have tried to find a new maintainer for Tor Weather for years, but
>> without success.  We started rewriting Tor Weather [1] using Onionoo
>> [2] as data back-end in 2014, and even though that project didn't
>> produce working code, somebody could pick up this efforts and finish
>> the rewrite.  The Roster developers said that they're planning to
>> include an email notification function in Roster [3].
>> And we developed a simple Python script that provides information
>> about a relay operator's eligibility for acquiring a t-shirt [4].
>> None of these alternatives is a full replacement of Weather, though.
>>
>> We encourage you, the community of Tor relay operators, to step up to
>> start your own notification systems and to share designs and code. Tor
>> Weather is still a good idea, it just needs somebody to implement it.
>>
>> Tor Weather is discontinued in two steps.  For now, new subscriptions
>> are disabled, new welcome messages are not sent out anymore, and
>> existing subscriptions continue working until June 30, 2016.  From
>> July 1, 2016 on, Tor Weather will not be sending out any emails.
>>
>> Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.
>>
>> All the best, Karsten
>>
>>
>> [0] https://weather.torproject.org/
>>
>> [1]
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/weather-in-2014
>>
>> [2] https://onionoo.torproject.org/
>>
>> [3] http://www.tor-roster.org/
>>
>> [4]
>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-tasks.git/tree/task-9889/tshirt.
>> py
>>
>>
>>
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