Re the repo: Glad to hear it. Re LTS/non-LTS: Got it, and will do!
cheers, - Paul
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:51:49PM +0100, Georg Koppen wrote:
For the maintenance question: it is not a random volunteer that showed up who is maintaining our RPMs but what we call a core member of our project. That means someone being longer involved and better integrated into our community. Sure, there is still the risk that they move on and someone needs to pick this up (again) but right now I am not worried about that scenario. Moreover, we have some interest in maintaining support for RPMs given our network health efforts and the better diversity we get by Tor relays running on CentOS systems and not only on, say, Ubuntu/Debian as far as Linux is concerned.
For using LTS vs. non-LTS: there is no policy yet to recommend one over the other (although there might come one in the nearer future in favor of non-LTS Tor used on relays) but we feel relays should track regular releases, if possible, as we get that way performance and stability improvements etc. faster out which benefits our users. There is the potential flip side here as this could be hurting relay diversity, but overall we think that's worth it. Thus, if you can, please track non-LTS releases.
Georg