[tor-commits] [tor-cloud/master] Replace website with discontinuation notice.

karsten at torproject.org karsten at torproject.org
Sat May 9 16:08:43 UTC 2015


commit f633ef2871a9790ddb11ba12250e0ea0ac64d262
Author: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing at gmx.net>
Date:   Sat May 9 09:04:43 2015 +0200

    Replace website with discontinuation notice.
---
 html/index.html |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)

diff --git a/html/index.html b/html/index.html
index dca1e24..068e134 100644
--- a/html/index.html
+++ b/html/index.html
@@ -43,12 +43,14 @@
 <div id="container">
 	<header>
 	  <div id="hbody">
+<!--
 	    <nav>
 	      <ul class="tabs nav">
 		<li><a id="t1" href="#what_is_it">What Is It?</a></li>
 		<li><a id="t2" href="#get_started">Get Started!</a></li>
 		<li><a id="t3" href="#faq">FAQ</a></li>
 	      </ul>
+-->
 <!--	    </nav>
             <ul class="nav ">
                 <li><a href="fa/index.html">فارسی</a></li>
@@ -64,6 +66,24 @@
 	      <div class="deco first"></div>
 	      <h2>Tor bridges in the Amazon cloud</h2>
 	    </hgroup>
+
+<p>As of May 8, 2015, the <a href="https://cloud.torproject.org/">Tor Cloud project</a> has been discontinued.</p>
+
+<p>The Tor Cloud project gave people a user-friendly way of deploying bridges on the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a bridge, they would donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the safety and speed at which users can access the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>The main reason for discontinuing Tor Cloud is the fact that software requires maintenance, and Tor Cloud is no exception.  There is at least one <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/14073">major bug in the Tor Cloud image</a> that makes it completely dysfunctional (meaning that users could not use this particular service to access the Internet), and there are <a href="https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=!closed&component=Tor+Cloud">over a dozen other bugs</a>, at least one of them of highest priority.  Probably as a result of these bugs, the number of Tor Cloud bridges has <a href="https://metrics.torproject.org/cloudbridges.html?graph=cloudbridges&start=2011-04-27&end=2015-04-27">steadily declined since early 2014</a>.</p>
+
+<p>We have tried to find a new maintainer for Tor Cloud for months, but without success.  There have been offers to send us patches, but we couldn't find a Tor person to review and approve them.  We encourage everyone who stepped up to start their own cloud bridges project under another name ("<a href="https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html.en">Onion Cloud</a>"?), possibly forking the <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-cloud.git/">existing Tor Cloud code</a> that will remain available.  Tor Cloud is still a good idea, it just needs somebody to implement it.</p>
+
+<p>Or maybe this is a good opportunity for the community to further look into other approaches for providing an easy-to-deploy bridge or relay, like <a href="https://github.com/david415/ansible-tor">Ansible Tor</a> or <a href="https://github.com/glamrock/cirrus">cirrus</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If people still want to help users access an uncensored Internet, there remain <a href="https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en">plenty of ways to help</a>.  For example, it's still possible to spin up an instance on Amazon EC2 or any other cloud computing platform and install a Tor bridge manually.  Or people can donate to organizations that run Tor relays and bridges like <a href="https://www.torservers.net/">Torservers.net</a> or their <a href="https://www.torservers.net/partners.html">partner organizations</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Note that discontinuing the Tor Cloud project has no effect on existing Tor Cloud instances.  Whenever one of those instances was started, a template of the operating system and settings was copied, and removing the template has no effect on the copies.</p>
+
+<p>Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this.</p>
+
+<!--
 	<p>The Tor Cloud project gives you a user-friendly way of deploying
 	bridges to help users access an uncensored Internet. By setting up a
 	bridge, you donate bandwidth to the Tor network and help improve the
@@ -111,8 +131,10 @@
         and the <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/">AWS pricing
             page</a> for more information.</p>
 	  </div>
+-->
 
 <!-- Get Started -->
+<!--
 	  <div id="get_started" class="main" role="main">
 	    <hgroup>
 	      <div class="deco first"></div>
@@ -141,6 +163,7 @@
         <br><h3>Obfsproxy Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3>
         <ul class="region-nav">
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-4a7c1a23" target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li>
+-->
 <!--
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-18ecc05d" target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li>
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d09403e0" target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li>
@@ -152,10 +175,12 @@
     <br / >
     <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-08920232" target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li>
 -->
+<!--
         </ul><br /><br />
         <h3>Private Bridges (required ports: 22, 443, 40872, 52176)</h3>
         <ul class="region-nav">
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1#launchAmi=ami-567c1a3f" target="_blank">us-east-1<br>Virginia</a></li>
+-->
 <!--
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-1#launchAmi=ami-1aecc05f" target="_blank">us-west-1<br>N. California</a></li>
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-west-2#launchAmi=ami-d29403e2" target="_blank">us-west-2<br>Oregon</a></li>
@@ -167,9 +192,12 @@
     <br />
         <li><a class="region" href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=ap-southeast-2#launchAmi=ami-0e920234" target="_blank">ap-southeast-2<br>Sydney</a></li> 
 -->
+<!--
         </ul>
+-->
 
 
+<!--
 	    <hgroup>
 	      <div class="deco"></div>
 	      <h2>Step by step process</h2>
@@ -178,8 +206,10 @@
 	    management console. Simply follow the steps as illustrated below,
 	    and your bridge will up and running in just a couple of
 	    minutes:</p>
+-->
 
 <!-- Nivo Slider -->
+<!--
 	    <div class='slider-wrapper theme-orman' style="display:none;">
 	      <div id='slider' class='nivoSlider'>
 		  <img src="img/tor-1.png" alt="" title="Click
@@ -210,8 +240,10 @@
 		  done! Congratulations!"/>
 	      </div>
 	    </div>
+-->
 
 <!-- Slider Fallback -->
+<!--
 	    <div class="setupguide">
 	      <div class="step">
 		  <div class="deco"></div>
@@ -284,8 +316,10 @@
 	    </div>
 
 	  </div>
+-->
 
 <!-- FAQ -->
+<!--
 <div id="faq" class="main" role="main">
 	<hgroup>
 	<div class="deco first"></div>
@@ -402,21 +436,26 @@
 	    noted.</p>
 	  </div>
 	</footer>
+-->
 </div> <!--! end of #container -->
 
 <!-- Initialize the Image Slider -->
+<!--
 <script type="text/javascript">
     $(window).load(function() {
         $('#slider').nivoSlider({effect:'slideInLeft', manualAdvance: true});
     });
 </script>
+-->
 
 <!-- activate tabs with JavaScript -->
+<!--
 <script>
 $(function() {
 	$(".tabs").tabs(".panes > .main", { history: true });
 });
 </script>
+-->
 
 </body>
 </html>



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