[network-health] Please upgrade your "BostonUCompSci" Tor relay running 0.2.9.17

[Paul Stauffer]

Re the repo: Glad to hear it.
Re LTS/non-LTS: Got it, and will do!

cheers,
- Paul

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 08:51:49PM +0100, Georg Koppen wrote:
> For the maintenance question: it is not a random volunteer that showed
> up who is maintaining our RPMs but what we call a core member of our
> project. That means someone being longer involved and better integrated
> into our community. Sure, there is still the risk that they move on and
> someone needs to pick this up (again) but right now I am not worried
> about that scenario. Moreover, we have some interest in maintaining
> support for RPMs given our network health efforts and the better
> diversity we get by Tor relays running on CentOS systems and not only
> on, say, Ubuntu/Debian as far as Linux is concerned.
> 
> For using LTS vs. non-LTS: there is no policy yet to recommend one over
> the other (although there might come one in the nearer future in favor
> of non-LTS Tor used on relays) but we feel relays should track regular
> releases, if possible, as we get that way performance and stability
> improvements etc. faster out which benefits our users. There is the
> potential flip side here as this could be hurting relay diversity, but
> overall we think that's worth it. Thus, if you can, please track non-LTS
> releases.
> 
> Georg
> 




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