[tor-commits] r26554: {website} Removing the 'Searchable Tor descriptor' project idea This w (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)

[Damian Johnson <atagar1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Author: atagar
Date: 2014-01-26 09:40:57 +0000 (Sun, 26 Jan 2014)
New Revision: 26554

Modified:
   website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Removing the 'Searchable Tor descriptor' project idea

This was already done by Kostas. Removing as requested by Karsten.



Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2014-01-26 05:55:24 UTC (rev 26553)
+++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml	2014-01-26 09:40:57 UTC (rev 26554)
@@ -678,11 +678,6 @@
     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torperf.git";>TorPerf</a>.
     </p>
 
-    <p>
-    <b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
-    <i><a href="#metricsSearch">Searchable Tor descriptor and Metrics data archive</a></i> (Python/Django?)
-    </p>
-
     <a id="project-atlas"></a>
     <h3><a href="https://atlas.torproject.org/";>Atlas</a> (<a
     href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/atlas.git";>code</a>)</h3>
@@ -1019,53 +1014,6 @@
     </p>
     </li>
 
-    <a id="metricsSearch"></a>
-    <li>
-    <b>Searchable Tor descriptor and Metrics data archive</b>
-    <br>
-    Effort Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
-    <br>
-    Likely Mentors: <i>Karsten</i>
-    <p>The <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/data.html";>Metrics data
-    archive</a> of Tor relay descriptors and other Tor-related network data has
-    grown to over 100G in size, bz2-compressed.  We have developed two search
-    interfaces: the <a
-    href="https://metrics.torproject.org/relay-search.html";>relay search</a>
-    finds relays by nickname, fingerprint, or IP address in a given month; <a
-    href="https://metrics.torproject.org/exonerator.html";>ExoneraTor</a> finds
-    whether a given IP address was a relay on a given day.</p>
-
-    <p>We'd like to have a more general search application for Tor descriptors
-    and metrics data.  There are more <a
-    href="https://metrics.torproject.org/formats.html";>descriptor types</a>
-    that we'd like to include in the search.  The search application should
-    handle most of them and understand some semantics like what's a timestamp,
-    what's an IP address, and what's a link to another descriptor.  Users
-    should then be able to search for arbitrary strings or limit their search
-    to given time periods or IP address ranges.  Descriptors that reference
-    other descriptors should contain links, and descriptors should be able to
-    say from where they are linked.  The goal is to make the archive easily
-    browsable.</p>
-
-    <p>The search application shall be separate from the metrics website and
-    shouldn't rely on the metrics website codebase.  The search application
-    will contain hourly updated descriptor data from the metrics website via
-    rsync.  Programming language and database system are not specified yet,
-    though there's a slight preference for Python/Django and Postgres for
-    maintenance reasons.  If there are good reasons to pick something else,
-    e.g, some NoSQL variant or some search application framework, that's fine,
-    too.  Further requirements are that lookups should be really fast and that
-    changes to the search application can be implemented in reasonable
-    time.</p>
-
-    <p>Applications for this project should come with a design of the proposed
-    search application, ideally with a proof-of-concept based on a subset of
-    the available data to show that it will be able to handle the 100G+ of
-    data.</p>
-    </li>
-
     <a id="stemUsability"></a>
     <li>
     <b>Stem Usability and Porting</b>

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