[tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

[Steve Snyder]

On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote:
> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides
> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be
> upgraded to 0.2.3.x to be allowed to vote along with the other dirauths,
> so it doesn't immediately know about the new consensus. I don't know
> when ides will be upgraded, but I hope the answer is soon.

Why do the authorities run an Alpha version of Tor instead of the 
(presumably less buggy) latest Stable version?