[tor-bugs] #8855 [Thandy]: thandy needs a README or other easy to find documentation

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#8855: thandy needs a README or other easy to find documentation
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 Reporter:  isis          |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  defect        |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal        |      Milestone:       
Component:  Thandy        |        Version:       
 Keywords:  docs, thandy  |         Parent:       
   Points:                |   Actualpoints:       
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 or better/easier to understand documentation. it seems to have people
 confused on what thandy is and isn't, and there isn't an easy place to
 point to for answers:

 {{{
 18:53         kwadronaut ) chiiph: where should i read about thandy,
 because besides isis mentioning it once I can't stop thinking about tandy,
 you know this
                            small video screen stuff
 18:53  kwadronaut ) it's hard to make meaningful statements if knowledge
 is lacking
 18:53      chiiph ) https://gitweb.torproject.org/thandy.git
 18:55 [ (isis) ) kwadronaut: chiiph: perhaps chiiph has followed it more
 closely, but from what i have understood it was in stasis for some time
 due to
                  sebastian having some pretty bad misfortunes, though they
 have returned now and were at the tor-dev meeting a month ago and seemed
 determined
                  to work on it again
 18:55  kwadronaut ) chiiph: that's not what I meant. Need some sort of
 overview, how it works. Does it build software and clients contact it to
 pull updates?
 18:56      chiiph ) isis: yes, I've been exchanging mails with sebastian
 about it, got to send him some fixes
 18:56 [ (isis) )
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/roadmaps/Thandy
 18:56      chiiph ) kwadronaut: all there is, is a specification doc in
 that repo, otherwise, I could talk as much as you want about it :)
 18:57         chiiph ) kwadronaut: it doesn't build software, it's just a
 cryptographically secure wrapping to download tarballs, if you want to
 describe it
                        in 3 words
 18:57  kwadronaut ) consider this a bug report: get a readme in there
 about what it's supposed to do and how it makes that happen ;-)
 }}}

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