Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2022 - Tor Weather: Improving the Tor Network

[Status Update for the Project] - Week-1 & Week-2

Completed

1. Initialized the Repository:

a. Used pipenv for managing packages & virtual environments.

b. Added & configured linters, formatters & other tools.

c. Created few pre-commit hooks for automating trivial tasks.

d. Configured dev & prod environments with config file.

e. Setup a few branch policies on GitLab.

2. Initiated the Flask App:

a. Created a shared SMTP package with few utility methods for sending emails.

b. Configured the process of injecting data in dynamic email templates.

c. Configured the database connections with the project.

d. Added models for the tables to be created at startup if does not exist already.

In-Progress

1. Initiated the development of scripts for fetching data from Onionoo.

2. Started developing queries for fetching data from the tables including interfaces for each of the responses.

Updates for the Project will also be made available on the Project Wiki - Week 1 & Week 2 · Wiki · sarthikg / Tor-Weather · GitLab (torproject.org).

Thanks & Regards,

Sarthik Gupta

On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 2:03 AM Sarthik Gupta <sarthikg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I’m Sarthik Gupta (irc: sarthikg), a recent grad from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh & currently working as a Software Engineer at Soroco. This summer, I’ll be working on GSoC Project: “Tor Weather: Improving the Tor Network” with my mentors GeKo & Silvia. I’m extremely excited to be a part of Tor and am interested in working on this project!

Briefing about the project: As of now, if any relay disappears from the tor-network, no one will know. This causes the network to lose out on bandwidth from nodes which have been down for hours because no-one knew they were down. Tor-Weather aims at solving this by creating a notification service which relay operators can subscribe to in order to get various types of updates for their relays.

The tor-weather service will offer a plethora of notifications options for the relays. These include, the node being down, running on EOL/Outdated version, losing a flag, ranking in top 20/50/100, etc. These notifications can be subscribed & customised by the relay operators to fit their needs using a web-frontend.

A detailed proposal for this project is available at: https://gitlab.torproject.org/sarthikg/tor-weather/-/wikis/Proposal. I plan to keep this wiki updated with the progress & design decisions taken throughout the development of the project.

Suggestions are always welcomed! Please reach out to us in irc (#tor-dev) for any ideas, questions, or suggestions you might have.

Thanks,
Sarthik Gupta