Hi,
On 5 Sep 2019, at 13:01, Mike Perry mikeperry@torproject.org wrote:
- I am maintaining research or other patches against tor, and rebases
are difficult
Again, common? I'm going to guess not common (or self-supporting), but this does feel like something we could measure by checking for git versions that don't make sense to us in the full descriptor archives.
That could be hard: some distros add their own patches using git.
How can we fix that for you, or at least, how can we make it easier to run the very latest stable series Tor on your relay?
The answers are probably something like: 6. Provide better relay operator support, and direct me to those support channels in the log messages, when my relay fails to launch
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How can we fix that for you, or at least, how can we make it easier to run the very latest stable series Tor on your relay?
The answers are probably something like: 6. Provide better relay operator support, and direct me to those support channels in the log messages, when my relay fails to launch
+1 100%. I think this will go light years towards getting rid of non-LTS Tors and LTS tor's alike, regardless of reason. Then we can ask the remainder.
- Support old features for longer> 8. Stop refactoring so much code
Nah. I'm not interested in these, even if populism demands them. Some shit needs to go away because it is not safe to keep around, and some stuff needs to be better organized to make it easier to improve.
I agree. But you asked for answers, so I gave them.
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