Hi!

We had the last metrics meeting until November 5th. Remember that you can send a mail to metrics-team@lists.torproject.org if there is anything metrics related that needs to be discussed.

Meeting pad for 2020: http://kfahv6wfkbezjyg4r6mlhpmieydbebr5vkok5r34ya464gqz6c44bnyd.onion/p/tor-...

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Public pad URL is: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-metricsteam-2020.1-keep Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 15 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress).

Links:

Metrics Team wiki page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/team OnionPerf board: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/onionperf/-/boards OnionPerf milestone: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/metrics/-/milestones/1 All Metrics Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/metrics/-/boards

Next meeting: Thursday, November 5th , 15 UTC

----------------------------------------------------- Agenda Thursday, September 17th, 15 UTC -----------------------------------------------------

OnionPerf development wrapping (freezing for the next 2 months)

karsten tags 0.8 this evening, unless somebody raises concerns very soon. karsten continues uploading tarballs, updates the wiki (documentation overview, table of and instructions for long-running instances), and updates the link on m-web. acute thinks about alternatives for onionperf.torproject.org and updates the issue accordingly.

Funding proposal for next OnionPerf phase (link in the mail that was sent).

OnionPerf Deployment Architecture: https://people.torproject.org/~gaba/onionperf-architecture-1.pdf

Objective 1: Diversify the demographics of our data O1.1 Decide on regions, set up instances (manually at first, automatically later) O1.2 Evaluate measurement data using a big PostgreSQL database

Objective 2: Automate setup of OnionPerf instances. O2.1 Improve ease of deployment and maintenance O2.2 Improve monitoring

Objective 3: Improve automation for visualization of data O3.1: Update existing visualizations to accomodate larger number of measurements O3.2: Create visualizations for Shadow results (?)

Objective 4: Improve the storage of instance’s old data 4.1 Set up storage, upload tarballs, and keep them there (and add new ones) throughout the year. 4.2 Setup storage for Shadow simulation runs or results

Objective 5: Add memory and infrastructure to run a network simulator with Shadow jnewsome following up with rob

Do we suspend metrics meeting until November? Yes

Log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-09-17-14.58.log....