On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:45:58PM -0700, Shari Steele wrote:
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'm going to respond to you privately to help clarify this some more.
The alternative is that we get dedicated computers from Hetzner, and pay ~$100/mo for Tor Browser build machines. I think we have something like two of those that we pay for right now: one for Windows builds, and one for Tor Messenger builds, and we've been talking about getting a third to help the Tor Browser team do builds.
It's not clear to me whether getting the Hetzner computer is the better or worse idea. There's the price tradeoff; also maybe we're looking for different security goals, e.g. between sandbox developer computers vs official build machines; and maybe the Cloud image is easier for people to work with. But in an ideal world, we would pick the better idea and stop needing to do the worse one. :)
--Roger