[tor-bugs] #4926 [Pluggable transport]: obfsproxy release

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#4926: obfsproxy release
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 Reporter:  asn                  |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  task                 |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:     
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:     
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 obfsproxy's codebase is quite stable lately, and I think its time to
 take a step into the deployment phase, by tagging an obfsproxy
 release.

 After #3729 gets in, I suspect that no other "big features" will get
 merged in the short-term future [0], and it looks like a good moment
 to strike with our tag. Specifically, I think we should tag after
 #3729, #3726 and #4920 get merged (and #4743 resolved).

 After tagging, we can announce the release to tor-talk along with some
 documentation, ask people to set up obfsproxy/obfs2 on their bridges, and
 ask them to send us their bridge credentials. This way we will have some
 obfs2'ed bridges ready for when the "Pluggable Transport Bundle" gets
 released.

 After tagging, we can also talk to Linux distributions and start
 looking into obfsproxy packaging. I know that blueness, the Tor maintainer
 of Gentoo was interested in packaging obfsproxy, but he was afraid that it
 was too beta-ish at the moment. This obfsproxy release will still be beta-
 ish, but at least he will have a specific milestone in the codebase that
 he can base his packages on (and maybe the packages can be marked as
 'unstable', since I think there is such a concept in Gentoo's portage.)

 Nick, what do you think?

 PS: Is 'beta' the correct term for this release? I would go with
 'alpha', 'gamma', '0.01' or anything really...

 [0]:
 At least till #4685.

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