[tor-relays] Launch of new Tor Weather service

[Bauruine]

Hi

I've hacked together a little script [0] for those of us with many 
relays that don't want to wait till issue #17 / #55 are resolved. [1]

Bauruine

[0] https://gist.github.com/bauruine/6f333720b50ba6747970a5e6e4b97cb4

[1] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/tor-weather/-/issues/17 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/tor-weather/-/issues/55

On 30.03.23 11:01, Georg Koppen wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> As indicated on the last relay operator meetup we were close to 
> re-launching the Tor Weather service. Now, after fixing a bunch of 
> last-minute issues and double-checking everything is working we can 
> finally announce that the newly designed Tor Weather service is ready 
> for public usage.
>
> Feel free to try it out at https://weather.torproject.org and help 
> improving it!
>
> For those not knowing what this service is about: Tor Weather is 
> offering subscriptions to keep track of the well-being of relays. 
> Right now, after registering an account, one can get an e-mail 
> notification in case a relay goes down or loses some flags or goes 
> below a certain amount of observed bandwidth. The idea is to help 
> operators in managing their relays that way and showing them their 
> contribution to our project is much appreciated.
>
> There a many more things we can potentially offer subscriptions for, 
> like getting notifications for upcoming relay operator meetups, having 
> earned a Tor t-shirt, new relay requirements, running outdated Tor 
> versions... You can find a current list of ideas in our bug 
> tracker[1]; feel free to add missing ones and pick up issues to work 
> on. This is a free software project after all. :)
>
> We see Tor Weather as an investment into our relay operator community 
> and think it will be useful in the future to help growing and 
> strengthening our community, which is very exciting.
>
> Finally, I'd like to give a big shout-out to Sarthik Gupta who did all 
> the heavy-lifting and re-wrote Tor Weather during last years' Google 
> Summer of Code and keeps improving it. Additionally, kez from our 
> sysadmin team was invaluable in getting all the different pieces set 
> up and running on our infrastructure.
>
> Thanks as well to all the volunteers, like nusenu, who contributed 
> with ideas and feedback over the years which convinced us that Tor 
> Weather is a worthwhile tool to invest time and energy in again.
>
> Georg
>
> [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/tor-weather/-/issues
>
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