Jacob Appelbaum:
adrelanos:
Micah Lee:
Well, which should your users be using? From my perspective, I think you should give them the alpha and help them report bugs! :-)
Interesting idea. Anyone else have opinions on this? I think I'd be fine giving people the alpha, but I also don't want to annoy people with too many bugs.
No, please no alphas by default. This defeats the purpose of alphas. As a fast solution: stable only. As a medium solution: allow choosing stable or alpha. As an ideal solution: allow both to coexist.
This is all alpha software, no?
No.
I know, it's not your voice, but the Tor blog frequently talks about "New Tor Browser Bundles" and different "Alpha Bundles Available for Testing"
https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/tor-browser-bundle
"2.4.7-alpha-1-Linux-i386" https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/linux/tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-...
is "more Alpha" than
"2.3.25-2-Linux-i686" https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/linux/tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-...
From a user perspective accustomed using the default download from
torproject.org (for my os) of TBB, I think the logical course of action for a download automating tool (Tor Browser Launcher) is also using the default download.
I enjoy that there is some testing of the ("more") alpha bundles before I get it presented as the "more stabilized but still alpha" bundles - even though all anonymity tools are in their overall nature still alpha.