On 15 Dec 2015, at 13:12, Nima Fatemi <nima@riseup.net> wrote:

Roger Dingledine:
We should somehow teach everybody that losing their flags for a few days
is totally fine and normal, and even something to be proud of because
you took a useful step at keeping your Tor relay safe and secure

Maybe we should introduce a new flag for the relays that are running the
cutting edge version of Tor?

There's a startup warning for this: it says your relay version is "too new".

And another one for long-time relays. say, if a relay has been in the
consensus, it would get an special flag of some sort…

At some point, we'd like to make long-term relays fallback directory mirrors.