[tor-dev] Nick's August 2012 status report

2012-08-31 Thread Nick Mathewson
THINGS I DID IN AUGUST I spent a few days vacationing with my family in Maine; took a day off for my birthday, and generally chilled out. I merged lots of bugfixes and patches -- some mine, some other people's, some requiring rewriting and review, some not. This included some security-related st

Re: [tor-dev] Parallel release series for directory authorities?

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 12:36:51AM +0200, Linus Nordberg wrote: > Just a thought. A few of the directory authorities, I think at least > three, as well as the bridge authority run packages/ports only, not > builds from source. We'd have to package our -da branch ourselves for > those I guess. But t

Re: [tor-dev] Parallel release series for directory authorities?

2012-08-31 Thread Linus Nordberg
Nick Mathewson wrote Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:57:04 -0400: | 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 | issue

Re: [tor-dev] Parallel release series for directory authorities?

2012-08-31 Thread andrea
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

Re: [tor-dev] [Stegotorus] Fake bug, boost, DECLARE, etc

2012-08-31 Thread vmon
Hello Zack, I hope you have already settled down and your new home feels homey by now. Frist let me start with this, that took me the longest (not) to "tackle": > Sometimes they get > reordered to an extent that seems incredible, e.g. block 60 arriving > immediately after block 42 as in your exam

[tor-dev] Parallel release series for directory authorities?

2012-08-31 Thread Nick Mathewson
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 meantim