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Rename the program to sww and its deciding daemon to discriminator (closes #218)
The program is now sww, built from cmd/sww, with two modes: sww rproxy and
sww discriminator. servewaf becomes discriminator everywhere it names that
daemon: the package (internal/discriminator), its types, functions, files, the
discriminator_line log field, and its docs and tests.

smallwebwaf is left only where sneak's directive allows it: the documents'
product name, the git.eeqj.de/sneak/smallwebwaf URLs, and the Go module path
sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf. Everywhere else a name containing it takes the sww
form: the package (internal/sww), metric names (sww_*), the X-Sww-* headers,
the /_sww/ admin endpoints, the OS user, and the state and rules directories.
The SWWAF_ environment variables take the SWW_ form.

No logic changes. make check passes.

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# The metrics
What `GET /_sww/metrics` answers with, at `discriminator`'s own address.
"Metrics endpoint" in [`SPEC.md`](../SPEC.md) describes the endpoint. Prometheus
keeps the `instance` label as `exported_instance` unless the scrape sets
`honor_labels: true`. `rproxy` has no metrics.
## Traffic
- `sww_requests_total`, `sww_request_bytes_total` and
`sww_response_bytes_total`, by `status_class` such as `2xx` and by `action`;
- `sww_request_duration_seconds` and `sww_upstream_duration_seconds`, as
histograms;
- `sww_requests_in_flight`: the questions and requests to its own endpoints that
`discriminator` is handling.
## Limits and bans
- `sww_rate_limit_hits_total`, by `window` and by `kind` (`requests`, `bytes` or
`refusals`);
- `sww_offences_total`, by `kind`;
- `sww_bans_made_total`, by `cause`;
- `sww_active_bans` and `sww_permanent_bans`.
## Attack detection
- `sww_rule_matches_total`, by `rule_id` and `action`, and `sww_rules_loaded`;
- `sww_waf_matches_total`, by `mode` and `rule_id`, for the rules that fired.
## Countries and AS numbers
For the `SWW_METRICS_TOP_N` busiest of each, the rest as `other`:
- `sww_country_requests_total`, `sww_country_request_bytes_total`,
`sww_country_response_bytes_total` and `sww_country_list_refusals_total`, by
`country`;
- `sww_asn_requests_total`, `sww_asn_request_bytes_total` and
`sww_asn_response_bytes_total`, by `asn`.
## Lookups
- `sww_geojs_requests_total` and `sww_geojs_failures_total`;
- `sww_geojs_unanswered_total`: the requests that needed an answer and went on
without it;
- with the file source, `sww_lookup_database_last_read_timestamp_seconds` and
`sww_lookup_database_read_failures_total`.
## Reputation sources
By `source`: each list's URL, each zone, and `abuseipdb`:
- `sww_reputation_hits_total`, `sww_reputation_queries_total` and
`sww_reputation_failures_total`;
- `sww_reputation_last_fetch_timestamp_seconds`, for a list;
- `sww_reputation_daily_budget_remaining`, for AbuseIPDB.
## State files
By `file`:
- `sww_state_file_writes_total`, `sww_state_file_write_failures_total`,
`sww_state_file_last_write_timestamp_seconds` and `sww_state_file_size_bytes`;
- `sww_state_file_edits_taken_in_total` and
`sww_state_file_edits_set_aside_total`;
- `sww_tracked_clients`: the clients in the table.
## Remote log, alerts and the process
- while a syslog server is set, `sww_remote_log_lines_sent_total`,
`sww_remote_log_lines_dropped_total` and `sww_remote_log_buffer_depth`;
- by `destination`, `sww_alerts_sent_total`, `sww_alerts_failed_total`,
`sww_alerts_suppressed_total` and `sww_alerts_dropped_total`;
- Go's own `go_` metrics and the process's `process_` metrics.
## When a request is counted
`discriminator` counts a denied request at its decision, and a request to its
own endpoints when it is answered. It counts an allowed request when its report
comes, with the status, bytes and times the report gives. These are not counted:
- a report itself;
- an allowed request whose report never comes;
- a question refused with `400`;
- a question whose body stopped arriving.