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Drop 'Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go' project idea

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We had an applicant look into this last year. I don't recall all the details
but I recall us backing off on it as a bad idea.
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Tor.
</p>
<p>
<b>Project Ideas:</b><br />
<i><a href="#descriptor_parsing_in_go">Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go</a></i>
</p>
<a id="project-txtorcon"></a>
<h3><a href="https://txtorcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Txtorcon</a> (<a
href="https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon">code</a>, <a
@ -847,43 +842,6 @@ the codebase that you want to work on.
</p>
</li>
<a id="descriptor_parsing_in_go"></a>
<li>
<b>Stem Descriptor Parsing in Go</b>
<br>
Language: <i>Go, Python</i>
<br>
Likely Mentors: <i>Damian (atagar), Philipp (phw)</i>
<br><br>
<p>
Tor consists of two parts: the application and a distributed network of a
few thousand volunteer relays. Information about these relays is public,
and made up of documents called <b><a href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#what-is-a-descriptor">descriptors</a></b>. We have
<a href="https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/mirror_mirror_on_the_wall.html#are-there-any-other-parsing-libraries">three libraries capable of reading these documents</a>...
</p>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="https://stem.torproject.org/">Stem</a></b> (Python)</li>
<li><b><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-lib.git/">Metrics-lib</a></b> (Java)</li>
<li><b><a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/phw/zoossh.git/">Zoossh</a></b> (Go)</li>
</ul>
<p>
Stem is the most feature rich but slowest, and conversely Zoossh is fastest
but limited. But what if Stem used CFFI bindings to do the heavy lifting in
Go? Could we unify these libraries, getting the feature set of Stem with
the performance of Zoossh?
</p>
<p>
<b>Applicants should be familiar with both Python and Go. As part of your
application for this project please write a demo CFFI binding for Stem as a
proof of concept.</b> Bonus points if you <a
href="https://stem.torproject.org/faq.html#how-do-i-get-started">get your
hands wet by contributing patches</a>!
</p>
</li>
<a id="txtorcon_use_txaio"></a>
<li>
<b>Convert txtorcon to use txaio</b>