[tor-relays] [New Initiative] Tor Weather: Improving the Tor Weather

[Sarthik Gupta]

Hello everyone,

As we all know, nodes are the building blocks of the tor-network. More
often than not these nodes require some maintenance, which could be in the
form of software upgrades, troubleshooting issues, rebooting the relays in
case of failures, etc.

As of today, if any relay disappears from the tor-network, no one will
know. Tor-Weather aims at solving this by creating a notification service
which relay operators can subscribe to in order to get various types of
updates for their relays.

The tor-weather service will offer a plethora of notifications options for
the relays. These include, the node being down, running on EOL/Outdated
version, losing a flag, ranking in top 20/50/100, etc. These notifications
can be subscribed & customized by the relay operators to fit their needs
using a web-frontend.

Folks interested in the project can refer this
<https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2022-May/014734.html>
thread in the tor-dev mailing list for regular updates. Suggestions are
always welcomed! Please reach out to us in irc (#tor-dev) for any ideas,
questions, or suggestions you might have.

Thanks,

Sarthik Gupta
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