Hi Jan,

On 5/2/11 12:31 PM, tagnaq wrote:

On 5/2/11 11:38 AM, Jan G. wrote:

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im trying to port TorNetworkStatus to Ruby.

I took a look at the Trac and it looks like it's project that should be done at the GSoC. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/projects/TorStatus

Is anyone working at this now?

No one is working on/maintaining TorStatus (it is not even a Tor Project "product").

As far as I've understood the plan is to extent metrics-web to have the TorStatus functionality on metrics.tpo.

tagnaq is right, extending metrics-web to be more useful for displaying the _current_ network status, too, would be good! After all, the database contained in metrics-web already has this information, and the website part displays similar information. So, extending metrics-web shouldn't be that hard. But the website is written in JSP/servlets which keeps many people away.

There are plans to rewrite TorStatus in Python/Django, which is much more popular in Tor land, and make it use the metrics database from metrics-web. If this goes well, we might extend that new TorStatus to cover the metrics part, too, and end up with a single website for both. Don't expect any results here in the next, say, three to six months, though.

But these plans shouldn't really stop you from writing a TorStatus in Ruby! I'd be curious to see what user interface you come up with. Like, what information would you put in a relay list, what information would you make searchable, etc. Even a paper prototype or click dummy would be cool as a start! And who knows, if your TorStatus turns out to be better than the current one, we might change our plans to rewrite stuff in Python/Django. Hard to say.

I can help you with setting up the database part of metrics-web if you want. Or I can help you make sense of most parts Tor's directory protocol, if needed. Just let me know!

Thanks, Karsten