On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:57:04AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > Hi, all! > > Here's an idea I had for directory authorities and the 0.2.3 release series. > > "As you know Bob," Tor 0.2.3 will be stable very soon, and I'm hoping > not to take any more patches for it except for important security > issues. I want 0.2.4 to come out very early next year. But in the > meantime, to support 0.2.4, and to deploy security/reliability > features to the network early, there are some directory consensus > features that we'd want to deploy before the rest of 0.2.4 is done and > stable. > > In particular, I'd like directories to be able to reach consensus on > IPv6 addresses (6363), and I'd like to try out the code that Mike > wrote to make the bandwidth voting system more robust against > dishonest during its startup phase (2286). > > So here's my plan: Make a "maint-0.2.3-da" branch based on 0.2.3, plus > feature patches for directory authorities. It gets patches from the > stable series (0.2.3), plus directory-authority features under > development. It would get merged-forward into 0.2.4, to make sure > that 0.2.3-da and 0.2.4 behavior stay in sync. > > This way we can get new authority features working in time to support > 0.2.4 clients, but without forcing too many authorities to run 0.2.4 > before it's ready, and without forcing us to make feature changes in > 0.2.3 proper. > > Thoughts? Sounds good to me. -- Andrea Shepard <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> PGP fingerprint: B593 78C9 DDEB 2DFE 2E29 FF59 D1D8 B7B1 6BFE F7CE
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