[Tor www-team] Suggestions for Mirrors in Censored Countries

[William Papper]

Thanks Earl. What techniques did you use?


On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Earl G <globallogins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tor image from the landing page reduced by 19% with 0 loss or resolution
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> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net>wrote:
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>> William Papper wrote:
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>>> That would be great. I could then add your repo as a submodule, and
>>> someone would just need to pull both for updates. I assume that it
>>> would be pretty easy for you to reset the commits, since only new
>>> versions will be added and there would be nothing in the commit
>>> history you would need to preserve.
>>>
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>>   I'd obliterate old commits with
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>> git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename'
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>>   so the old binaries don't stick around.
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>>  Alternatively, if the commits themselves cannot be removed easily, a
>>> new repo could be created for each version. Then, the submodules
>>> reference can just be updated instead of updating the submodule
>>> itself.
>>>
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>>   I like the idea of having it all in one repo (or at most divided by
>> language), so that it's easier to maintain/get, and easy for githubbers to
>> track changes to.  Though might change the repository name.
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>>  We could also use releases on the tor-download-web repo, and then have
>>> a script download the files for each release automatically. The script
>>> can be updated through git to take care of updating the files.
>>>
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>>  Which solution seems best?
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>>   Might be good to check in with Runa and Weasel.  Not sure if they're on
>> this list.
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>> ~Griffin
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