[tor-talk] Shutting down the relay-search service by the end of the year

[Karsten Loesing]

On 23/01/14 23:11, Christian wrote:
> On 23.01.2014 10:58, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>> Christian,
>>
>> did you make any progress on the Globe variant that doesn't
>> require client-side JavaScript anymore?
>>
>> Thanks! Karsten
>
> Hi,
> in the last 2 weeks I didn't had much freetime to work on it.
> Today I fixed the svg rendering of relay weight/bandwidth graphs.
>
> Main features that are missing as of now:
> - bridge graphs
> - advanced search
> - some css changes
>
> I created issues for these missing features.
>
> The current repo is on github:
> - repo: https://github.com/makepanic/globe-node
> - issues: https://github.com/makepanic/globe-node/issues
>
>
> A couple of open questions:
>
> How should we manage dependencies to other libraries? The problem ist
> that nodejs in wheezy-backports excludes npm (the official package
> manager for Node.js). There is a open bugreport but I don't know if or
> when it's resolved
> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729488).
> (possible solutions:
> - include the external packages in the repository by using npm locally
> and add them to git
> - compile nodejs ourself
> - install npm manually
> [https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#backports])

It seems only the first alternative does not require root, correct?  If 
so, I'd say let's go with that one for now, even if it's not pretty.

> I don't have access to a nodejs server. For gaining feedback and
> testing the application on a remote server I could deploy globe-node
> temporarily to heroku (for free). Do you think it would be OK?

Sure, I don't see a problem with that.

> Without JavaScript I can't really make a tabbed view for relay and
> bridge searches.
> Right now i put them on top of eachother: http://i.imgur.com/pN9tgME.png
> Does anyone knows a better solution?

Looks like a fine solution.

Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten