Oh how I love Sol Duc. Hundreds of miles of trails, white birch groves, and of course sulfuric hotsprings. Rainforest moss lends the woods an unearthly charm that’s truly just delightful.
Highlight of this month for me was a vacation with my dad, first to Port Townsend then Sol Duc. But this has been an interesting month on other fronts too.
Nyx Performance
This month my chief focus has been tuning Nyx. CPU usage is now 20% lower, and far more responsive under verbose logging due to constant time log deduplication. Overall Nyx finally looks ready for release. I’ll probably move forward with a call for beta testers after the dev meeting.
Membership
This month tor ratified a policy for internal list membership. Much of it just formalizes procedures we’ve used for a while, but it also adds a requirement on continued involvement to stay subscribed. Naturally volunteers move on to other projects over time and this perfectly fine, but eventually their membership will be suspended with re-addition fast tracked if they return.
I’m now facilitating discussions with the Vegas leads and Council on how best to determine this. To give us a starting point I put together some fun stats, but numbers alone don’t come anywhere close to answering the question of “how has this person been involved in making tor better in the last six months?”. Discussions ongoing.