On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:06:20PM +0530, Deepankar Tyagi wrote: > Extended goals: > #1 create a module which does anomaly detection(machine learning)
Unless you have a very specific plan, I would advise against this. Sound applications of machine learning are time-consuming, and Tor's setting is particularly difficult to tackle as a large fraction of a relay's information (e.g., nicknames, port numbers, bandwidth values) are controlled by an adversary. > #2 write behavioral and integration tests. Sounds great. I would also really like exitmap to be Python 3-compatible. > #1 In bin/exitmap "#!/usr/bin/env python" is used instead of specifying > python2 or python3, Can I assume that code currently contains nothing which > makes it biased towards one python version or the other. If yes then should > one keep python2 in mind when developing ? For now, exitmap only supports Python 2 although there's probably not much that prevents it from being Python 3-compatible. This assumption should be made explicit, so I replaced all "#!/usr/bin/env python" lines with "#!/usr/bin/env python2" in commit a4dccea. Thanks for pointing this out. > #2 As per the list subscribers' opinion, should the unit test be written > after implementing core functionality only or is it better to write test > alongside after each iteration of finishing parts of task? (in context of > exitmap). Personally, I don't feel strongly either way as long as they are written. > #3 Should one aspire for as much less dependency on external libraries > (other than stem) or if no then should one follow a rubrik when selecting a > library ? I think we can decide case by case if we want to rely on a new library. Cheers, Philipp _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
