On 23 Apr (17:37:03), Karsten Loesing wrote: > Hello everyone, > > as the subject says, I suggest that we retire Globe (currently > available at https://globe.torproject.org/). > > The main reason is that Globe is serving a similar purpose as Atlas > (available at https://atlas.torproject.org/), which it was forked from > several years ago. Neither Atlas nor Globe are actively developed, > they only receive critical bug fixes whenever necessary. And thanks, > Philipp and Isis, for doing that! > > So, when deciding which of the two services we should keep, I looked > at the number of daily requests to both services, which shows that > Globe is used a lot less than Atlas: > > https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/atlas-globe-2016-04-01.png I am probably causing a significant portion of those requests tbh. I use Globe quite a bit especially when investiguating bad relays. Anyway, Tim mentionned it below that a simple URL rewrite to the fingerprint search to Altas would be needed. I've seen links to Globe in commits and in the dirauth-conf bad configuration. They they could be changed and track down all Globe URLs but a simple rewrite would simply make it simpler. > > The hope is that retiring Globe could make it more likely that new > developers start contributing to Atlas. It would also make it easier > for us to add new feature to Atlas, because we wouldn't feel bad for > not adding them to Globe, too. In any case, we're getting rid of yet > one more thing. I'm good with Atlas. There are things that annoys me with it but if we only have one portal, it's a good reason for me to concentrate on fixing what annoys me instead of going to Globe :). Thanks for this! David > > Here's a suggested timeline for retiring Globe: > > - By April 30, we create Trac tickets for all features we like in > Globe and that are missing in Atlas. These tickets would go in > component "Metrics/Atlas" in Trac. If you want to keep something in > Atlas that you like in Globe, this is your chance to make that happen! > > - By May 15, we'll have reviewed those new tickets and decided which > of them we should implement before shutting down Globe. We might send > a call for help to tor-dev@ to write these patches. > > - By May 31 (hopefully), we'll have implemented, reviewed, merged, > and deployed the missing features in Atlas, and we'll shut down Globe. > We should probably add a static web page pointing to Atlas. If it > takes longer than this, it takes longer, but let's use this date for > now. Maybe nobody will be missing anything from Globe. We'll see. > > Suggestions welcome, not only if you strongly object! > > All the best, > Karsten > _______________________________________________ > tor-project mailing list > tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-project
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