On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Nick Mathewson nickm@freehaven.net wrote:
The idea is that Tor could ship with some basic recommendations, and links to places to find more advice?
If it's a question that can be answered by searching "how do i secure and run my unix server", including anything other than links to such answers would seem redundant. Sure, noobs are out there, but it isn't efficient for application projects to formally provide general computer training.
If it's a question of "how do i make tor/unix run happy together on my server", ie: file descriptor shortages, that's a specific known interaction with tor itself, and thus a different situation.
The only thing I'd ship with tor are links... to two community maintained wiki pages, one for each class of question above.
From there the community can write whatever faq help desired
independant of the release process and considering external developments.
If there wasn't a community or wiki, then shipping any critical runtime dependency notes on the second class of question would be reasonable.