Atlas

Free Software Efforts (2017W38)

Here’s my weekly report for week 38 of 2017. This week has not been a great week as I saw my primary development machine die in a spectacular reboot loop. Thanks to the wonderful community around Debian and free software (that if you’re reading this, you’re probably part of), I should be back up to speed soon. A replacement workstation is currently moving towards me and I’ve received a number of smaller donations that will go towards video converters and upgrades to get me back to full productivity.

Free Software Efforts (2017W37)

I’d like to start making weekly reports again on my free software efforts. Part of the reason for these reports is for me to see how much time I’m putting into free software. Hopefully I can keep these reports up.

Debian

I have updated txtorcon (a Twisted-based asynchronous Tor control protocol implementation used by ooniprobe, magic-wormhole and tahoe-lafs) to its latest upstream version. I’ve also added two new binary packages that are built by the txtorcon source package: python3-txtorcon and python-txtorcon-doc for Python 3 support and generated HTML documentation respectively.

Recent Atlas Improvements

This post was originally posted to the Tor Project blog. If you would like to comment on this post, please do so there.

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Atlas is a web application to learn about currently running Tor relays and bridges. You can search by fingerprint, nickname, country, flags and contact information and be returned information about its advertised bandwidth, uptime, exit policies and more.

Screenshot of Atlas

I’m taking this opportunity to introduce myself. I’m Iain R. Learmonth, or just irl on IRC. I began contributing to Atlas in June last year, and I’m currently serving as the maintainer for Atlas. We have made some usability improvements to Atlas recently that we are happy to share with you today.

Contact

• iain@learmonth.me
• irlxyz
• irlxyz