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

[Sarthik Gupta]

Hey, thanks for going through the proposal.

So, prior to writing the proposal for the Tor-Weather, I referred
to multiple sources of which https://github.com/thingless/torweather was
one. Some parts of the code can be reused, though the implementation
differs by a great extent.

It’s nice to know that someone else is also working on a similar project.
Would definitely love to interact with nusenu and explore his vision for
the project. In case the visions align, it would be great to have a
co-contributor.

In terms of the notifications, we considered the issues that could be
caused by frequent unreliable notifications, and that’s why we’ll be
offering an option to customize each notification individually. For
instance, relay operators can customize the “Losing a flag” notification to
only get triggered if the relay has lost a flag for a minimum of 24hrs.
Take note that this could be any number of hours. I think that should solve
the issue.

Prior to sending the previous email, I did try to enable comments on the
GitLab wiki, but it seemed a bit complicated to enable. Will be exploring
other ways to get this done & will send a follow-up email for that.

Finally, I agree the man-pages listed that the email may be obscure & not
should be. Honestly, I didn’t pay attention to that level of detail while
writing the proposal, have made the corrections, and will take a look
beforehand from the next time.

Thanks & Regards,
Sarthik Gupta

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 7:49 PM <lists at for-privacy.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 8, 2022 3:39:55 AM CEST Sarthik Gupta wrote:
>
> > The tor-weather service will offer a plethora of notifications options
> for
> > the relays.
> If you program something new, see if you can use the old code:
> https://github.com/thingless/torweather
> As far as I know, nusenu is also building something new. I don't know if
> he
> has already done something. He'll read this and get in touch.
>
> ;-)
> dream: someone resuscitates OnionTip.com or TorTip.com
>
> > These include, the node being down, running on EOL/Outdated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.
> Please not 'losing a flag'
> This confuses people and encourages even more people not to update their
> relays. Or like at the moment: 2 Authority voting running relays offline &
> flags come and go. Then this list is flooded with mails.
>
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately, comments are not allowed in:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/sarthikg/tor-weather/-/wikis/Proposal
>
> Cons:
> The email provided in the ContactInfo is obfuscated in most of the cases
> as
> they should be according to the torrc documentation. Hence this
> information
> cannot be relied upon.
>
> Please replace the link to the outdated jessie manpage
> use stable 'bullseye' or
> https://manpages.debian.org/main/tor/torrc.5.en.html
>
> You _MAY_ want to obscure is in the torrc not _SHOULD_ And especially in
> the
> last few weeks, several Tor Dev's have asked:
> - DO NOT obfuscate your contact information! Maintainers already burn a
> lot of
> time trying to decipher obfuscated contact info!
>
> Every reasonable email provider has spamassassin and amavisd-new running.
> We
> should tell people to use the header: 'X-Spam-Level: YES'
>
> --
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>
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