[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 6)

2014-08-19 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hey folks! This is my 6th and final GSoC status update on the Weather-Rewrite project. Things I worked on since my last update : - Wrote a small python script to clear the subscription data stored in the django models of the weather database before running the standalone scripts. This is

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 5)

2014-08-03 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, This report includes my 4th status update as well. Here is a list of things I've been working on regarding the weather rewrite project. - Fixed some django/database issues that were causing errors(seen with Debug=True in settings) during user subscription in the weather webform.

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 3)

2014-07-04 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, I've written most of the new weather's backend a.k.a the notification scripts that run hourly(LowBandwidth, Nodedown) and daily(Welcome, Tshirt) as cron jobs and this is how they essentially operate: 1. Fetch and parse required documents from Onionoo. 2. Filter out required relays(e.g 'run

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 2)

2014-06-20 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, As a part of the weather-rewrite project, I've been working on the onionoo-wrapper module[0] since my last update. I managed to write a couple of utility methods to the wrapper like *is_stable*, *is_exit_relay*. Removed the caching feature(using pymemcache) temporarily to ease the testing

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather (Status Update 1)

2014-06-07 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, So here is my first update on the work regarding weather rewrite. 1. (#12085) Develop python wrapper for Onionoo services. Made an initial python wrapper to be used for fetching Onionoo documents. It currently supports request-response caching to decrease the latency(picked up fr

[tor-dev] GSoC : Rewrite Tor Weather

2014-04-23 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi all, My name is Sreenatha(lucyd on OFTC). I am currently a final year undergraduate student at IIITH, majoring in computer science. I'll be rewriting weather this summer as a part of GSoC 2014. My mentors are meejah and karsten. In a nutshell, the weather rewrite project mostly involves two ta

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2014 : Rewrite Tor Weather

2014-03-21 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
> Hi Sreenatha! Glad to hear you're interested in Tor Weather! > > Just a quick reminder about GSoC: the student application deadline is > really soon, in like four days or so from now. Be sure to get your > application in by the deadline! > Done. Updated proposal on melange[0]. Not sure what

[tor-dev] GSoC 2014 : Rewrite Tor Weather

2014-03-14 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi there! I am Sreenatha(lucyd). I am interested in working on Tor Weather this summer as a part of GSoC 2014. I helped Damian migrate weather to stem(#8264) last summer and have been following the work on it's rewrite. I made an attempt to further this by writing a couple of python scripts. 1.

Re: [tor-dev] Migration of Tor Weather to Stem

2013-07-05 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi Damian, Thanks for pointing out the controller socket error. I've removed my old commits and added new ones at https://github.com/lucyd/weather/commits/master. Can you please take a look at them? I haven't got a weather instance up but I followed the instructions in the README to test it and 2

Re: [tor-dev] GSoC 2013 project idea

2013-05-03 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, I've submitted my project proposal regarding migration and improvement of TorBEL and Tor weather on google-melange. It is accessible at [0]. If anybody's having problems viewing it please let me know. Feedback is very much appreciated. [0] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/propo

[tor-dev] TorBEL migration

2013-04-29 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, My name is Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi. I'd like to migrate TorBEL from TorCtl to Stem as a part of GSoC'13 project this summer. Damian pointed out that there is still some improvement to be made to TorBEL to replace DNSEL. I've downloaded the source code from [0

[tor-dev] GSoC 2013 project idea

2013-04-28 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, My name is Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi (lucyd). I am a third year computer science undergraduate at IIITH. I am interested in participating in GSoC'13 with Tor. I've begun by submitting patches for stem tickets #7505, #8605 and #7713. I'd like to propose a new idea for a

Re: [tor-dev] Remote anonymous browsing

2013-04-16 Thread Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi
Hi, I think that having a web server to handle Tor requests would defeat the purpose of obfuscation because the server's IP address would be public and censors could easily block any connections to it rendering it useless. Cheers, Sreenatha On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:04 AM, mahesh wrote: > H