[tor-relays] Operator straw poll: Reasons why you use Tor LTS versions?

[teor]

Hi,

On 5 Sep 2019, at 13:01, Mike Perry <mikeperry at torproject.org> wrote:

>> 8. I am maintaining research or other patches against tor, and rebases
>>   are difficult
> 
> Again, common? I'm going to guess not common (or self-supporting), but
> this does feel like something we could measure by checking for git
> versions that don't make sense to us in the full descriptor archives.

That could be hard: some distros add their own patches using git.

>>> How can we fix that for you, or at least, how can we make it easier to
>>> run the very latest stable series Tor on your relay?
>> 
>> The answers are probably something like:
>> 6. Provide better relay operator support, and direct me to those support
>>   channels in the log messages, when my relay fails to launch
> 
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>>> How can we fix that for you, or at least, how can we make it easier to
>>> run the very latest stable series Tor on your relay?
>> 
>> The answers are probably something like:
>> 6. Provide better relay operator support, and direct me to those support
>>   channels in the log messages, when my relay fails to launch
> 
> 
> +1 100%. I think this will go light years towards getting rid of non-LTS
> Tors and LTS tor's alike, regardless of reason. Then we can ask the
> remainder.
> 
>> 7. Support old features for longer> 8. Stop refactoring so much code
> 
> Nah. I'm not interested in these, even if populism demands them. Some
> shit needs to go away because it is not safe to keep around, and some
> stuff needs to be better organized to make it easier to improve.

I agree. But you asked for answers, so I gave them.

T
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