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[tor-project] January and February 2019 report and March 2019 plans for the metrics team



Hello Tor, hello world!

Below you'll find the highlights of Tor metrics team work done in
January and February 2019 as well as a few expected highlights for the
current month, March 2019.

On behalf of the Tor metrics team,
Karsten


January and February 2019:

Held an in-person meeting in Brussels to make plans with other teams and
to make a new roadmap for the next six months [1].

 [1]
https://storm.torproject.org/shared/TsgBadLSfM8uh_aftPjxmR_rm0a8E-4UQ2HEa_l0DHv

Performed a one-off analysis of existing OnionPerf measurements with
special focus on slow runs, timeouts, and failures [2, 3].

 [2]
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/onionperf-metrics-2019-02-02.pdf
 [3]
https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/volatile/onionperf-metrics-2019-02-20.pdf

Started drafting guidelines for adding data to Tor Metrics [4].

 [4] https://bugs.torproject.org/29315

Presented Tor Metrics at FOSDEM 2019 [5]. A transcript of the
presentation is also available [6].

 [5] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/monitoring_anon/
 [6] https://iain.learmonth.me/blog/2019/2019w064/

Continued to document considerations for privacy-preserving safe
measurements of live networks [7] to be included in an IETF Internet
Draft on the topic [8].

 [7] https://github.com/irl/draft-safe-internet-measurement/issues
 [8]
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-learmonth-pearg-safe-internet-measurement/

Took ownership of OnionPerf development. The canonical repository is now
hosted on git.tpo [9] and is mirrored to GitHub [10] to accept pull
requests (and to later run CI).

 [9] https://gitweb.torproject.org/onionperf.git/
 [10] https://github.com/torproject/onionperf

Added a "single-shot" mode to OnionPerf to enable easier testing during
development and towards use in CI environments [11].

 [11] https://github.com/torproject/onionperf/pull/1

Improved test coverage for OnionPerf [12].

 [12] https://github.com/torproject/onionperf/pull/4

Added support for testing v3 onion service performance in OnionPerf [13].

 [13]
https://github.com/torproject/onionperf/commit/c8b0fc22809900ee35938ee7f89e853c923a5bb9

Continued working on second report for Sponsor13 [14, 15]

 [14] https://bugs.torproject.org/29648
 [15] https://bugs.torproject.org/29649

Ported the research portal content to a Hugo static site [16] and
deployed a staging version for feedback [17].

 [16] https://bugs.torproject.org/26838
 [17] https://research-staging.torproject.org/

Established a new research@tpo alias [18] to allow for external
researchers to contact Tor people that manage the Research
Portal/Mailing List.

 [18] https://bugs.torproject.org/29557


March 2019:

Add integration tests [19] for the data-processing modules powering the
Tor Metrics website.

 [19] https://bugs.torproject.org/29425

Write a specification document for exit lists [20].

 [20] https://bugs.torproject.org/29624

Replace advertised bandwidth distribution graphs by consensus weight
distribution graphs [21].

 [21] https://bugs.torproject.org/29330

Presenting Tor Metrics at the Scottish Networking Event [22] on the 12th
March.

 [22] http://scone.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/wiki/

Attending IETF 104 and presenting the above Internet Draft on safe
measurement [23].

 [23] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/104/

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