[tor-relays] Useful metrics for relay operators

[patacca]

On 31/08/2016 18:51, Alison wrote:
> 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?


I would find very useful a mail notification when the ed25519 key's
expiration date is near and the OfflineMasterKey is enabled.
Also if the expiry information could be shown on atlas that would be nice.