[tor-bugs] #8240 [Tor]: Raise our guard rotation period

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#8240: Raise our guard rotation period
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 Reporter:  arma                                    |          Owner:                    
     Type:  defect                                  |         Status:  needs_revision    
 Priority:  major                                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor                                     |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client needs-proposal 023-backport  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                                          |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by arma):

 Well, here we are in a deadlock again.

 If we merge the consensus parameter version to 0.2.3 (or heck, to 0.2.4),
 but we don't add any rebalancing code to these versions, then when it
 comes time to set that consensus parameter, we're going to hesitate and
 try not to do it, right?

 We need a lot of our users to be choosing based on the new (not yet
 designed, not yet implemented, not yet deployed) weighting strategy, when
 we tell a lot of our users to lengthen their guard rotation interval.
 Unless I'm mistaken?

 Or is Mike recommending that we roll out the consensus parameter version,
 have many of our users change to 9 months, then figure we'll do #8453 and
 then the newer users will slowly upgrade to that newer code and eventually
 we'll be rebalanced again?

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