[tor-relays] consensus update request

[Sebastian Hahn]

On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
>     Thanks, Sebastian, for the very quick reply.
>     On Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:25 +0100 Sebastian Hahn <mail at sebastianhahn.net>
> wrote:
>> On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Scott Bennett wrote:
>>>    The last consensus document expired about 15 hours ago.  I understand
>>> that the authority operators and tor developers are probably occupied with
>>> fixing whatever is the trouble, but if someone in that group of individuals
>>> can spare a moment to fill us in on what is happening, I, for one, would
>>> greatly appreciate it.
>>>    FWIW, I think a page on the torproject.org web site for very brief
>>> status updates on extraordinary situations like this one would be a good
>>> and helpful addition.
>>>    Thanks much, and best of luck getting things working right again.
>> 
>> People are indeed working to restore service. Currently it looks like
> 
>     Glad to know that.
> 
>> two authorities are completely offline, and a couple others are too
>> overloaded to function properly wrt voting.
> 
>     Hmm.  Will this situation, then, result in a renewed effort to find
> a few more people to run authorities?

The problem is that in the current situation, it gets worse with more
authorities, not better. Our voting mechanism needs an overhaul :/

>> In the meantime you might like
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/consensus-health.html which monitors the
>> consensus.
> 
>     Thanks for that, too.  It's not what I had in mind, but it is
> interesting, nonetheless.

what did you have in mind?