[tor-bugs] #2161 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: Allow subscription to external rule feeds

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#2161: Allow subscription to external rule feeds
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 Reporter:  mikeperry             |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement           |         Status:  accepted 
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:           
Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |        Version:           
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Comment(by pde):

 This never got to be high on my priority list, because it seemed best to
 keep everyone's attention focused on keeping a single ruleset library as
 correct as possible, rather than letting them fragment into multiple
 libraries.  But I'm starting to wonder whether we might want this simply
 to decrease the amount of time between a ruleset being fixed, and users
 receiving the fixes in their browsers.  It still takes at least a month
 before 80% of users upgrade to a new stable release, and there's an
 additional lag of 2-4 weeks between stable releases, so it often takes
 months for users to receive trivial ruleset bugfixes.

 There would be some tricky questions about doing auto-polled ruleset
 libraries though.  Would we require that they be signed by the offline
 signing key, for instance?

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