[tor-bugs] #34176 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: Tor Browser Nightly external server support

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#34176: Tor Browser Nightly external server support
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tpa
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Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 >  Or should TPA be involved in this process and help manage/maintain the
 OS?

 It depends if you want TPA to actually manage the machine. From what I
 understand from the discussion in #34122, you absolutely need root to run
 those builds, and we don't usually give out root to TPA-managed machines.
 That (and the lack of hardware, of course) is what's making us hesitant in
 setting up that machine. If there's an horizon after which that
 requirement could eventually change, we could be more open to changing
 that constraint, but it doesn't seem like there is an opening there...

 In other words, if "run builds as root" is a hard requirement that will
 never change, I don't think we can help you with a TPA machine. That, of
 course, can be discussed, and that's what I tried to do in #34122 but that
 didn't seem to stick. :)

 This does mean that if you setup the machine outside of TPA architecture,
 we cannot manage it either.

 I should warn that previous experiments in that area didn't go so well.
 From what I understand, the current build box at sunet is severely out of
 date and not really maintained, so that is something that should be
 avoided in the future.

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