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[tor-commits] r26093: {website} Dropping stem's PathSupport project from the page Last year (website/trunk/getinvolved/en)
Author: atagar
Date: 2013-03-08 17:00:50 +0000 (Fri, 08 Mar 2013)
New Revision: 26093
Modified:
website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
Log:
Dropping stem's PathSupport project from the page
Last year I proposed a stem counterpart for PathSupport as a project for GSoC.
This did not go very well since we really haven't a clue *what* we want from
such a project. Since then this has not changed and there's little reason to
leave it on the page (even commented out).
Modified: website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml
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--- website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-08 16:57:52 UTC (rev 26092)
+++ website/trunk/getinvolved/en/volunteer.wml 2013-03-08 17:00:50 UTC (rev 26093)
@@ -1650,68 +1650,6 @@
</li>
-->
- <!--
- <a id="stemPathsupport"></a>
- <li>
- <b>Stem PathSupport Capabilities</b>
- <br>
- Effort Level: <i>High</i>
- <br>
- Skill Level: <i>Medium</i>
- <br>
- Likely Mentors: <i>Damian (atagar)</i>
- <p><a
- href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/stem";>Stem</a> is a
- python controller library for tor. Like it's predecessor, <a
- href="#project-torctl">TorCtl</a>, it uses tor's <a
- href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/control-spec.txt";>control
- protocol</a> to help developers program against the tor process, enabling
- them to build things similar to <a href="#project-vidalia">Vidalia</a> and
- <a href="#project-arm">arm</a>.</p>
-
- <p>While TorCtl provided a fine first draft for this sort of functionality,
- it has not proved to be extensible nor maintainable. Stem is a rewrite of
- TorCtl with a heavy focus on testing, documentation, and providing a
- developer friendly API.</p>
-
- <p>At the moment stem is still very much incomplete, missing several pieces
- of functionality that TorCtl provides. This is a project to fix that by
- porting TorCtl's <a
- href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/pytorctl.git/blob/HEAD:/PathSupport.py";>PathSupport
- module</a> to stem, writing tests for it, and migrate a couple clients to
- use it.</p>
-
- <p>PathSupport provides applications with programmatic control over how
- tor's circuits are built, for instance letting you exit from particular
- relays. This is used by projects like <a href="#project-torbel">TorBEL</a>,
- <a href="#project-torflow">the Bandwidth Scanners, and SoaT</a>.</p>
-
- <p>This project can be broken into three parts...</p>
-
- <ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
- <li><p>Look at PathSupport's clients to figure out how it is used and
- come up with the API that we will use for stem. Note that the goal if
- this project is <b>not</b> to simply copy PathSupport, but to make it
- better. This task would ideally be done as part of writing the GSoC
- application.</p></li>
- <li><p>Implement the PathSupport counterpart for stem. This should be
- done in an incremental fashion, writing the feature, tests, and going
- through a code review before moving on. I'll be pretty anal about making
- it as good as we can during these code reviews so plan for this to take a
- while. ;)</p></li>
- <li><p>The real test of the API that you've developed will come when we
- use it in some real applications. Try to migrate a TorCtl client or two
- to stem, filling in functionality that we're missing and improving our
- API as we discover issues. A particularly good client to start with would
- be TorBEL.</p></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p><b>
- Upon reflection this is not an especially good project for this year's GSoC. You are still perfectly wecome to apply for this project, but <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/stem";>other stem related tasks</a> such as implementing a general controller, descriptor fetching, and client migrations would be better. For the discussion that lead to this see <a href="http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Apr-2012/msg00006.html";>this thread</a>.
- </b></p>
- </li>
- -->
-
<a id="stemUsability"></a>
<li>
<b>Stem Usability and Porting</b>
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