Re: [tor-dev] [tor-reports] boklm's report for December 2013

2014-01-06 Thread Karsten Loesing
[Replying on tor-dev@, because I think tor-reports@ is not meant for discussions.] On 1/7/14 12:43 AM, Nicolas Vigier wrote: > - continued to review current status of automation in tor project, and > needs: > https://people.torproject.org/~boklm/automation/tor-automation-review.html > > [...

Re: [tor-dev] Prevoting opinions suggested in proposal 147 (was: Dusting off dir-spec.txt)

2014-01-06 Thread Damian Johnson
> I'm not sure what you mean by "specialized DirPort method". Can you > explain that in more detail? No doubt I'm missing something basic about either the problem we're trying to solve or how votes work. :P What I meant by a "specialized DirPort method" was the methods in section 4.2 ('/tor/stat

Re: [tor-dev] Dusting off dir-spec.txt

2014-01-06 Thread Damian Johnson
> Rationale: It is much more difficult to review patches that move and > edit than patches which only move things. I hate to +1 threads but I was thinking the same when this was first proposed. I read all control-spec and dir-spec commits to determine if they impact Stem. Making reformatting chang

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 177: Abstaining from votes on individual flags (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 177 Abstaining from votes on individual flags >> >> Here's my proposal for letting authorities have opinions about some >> (flag,router) combinations without voting on whether _every

Re: [tor-dev] Dusting off dir-spec.txt

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > [Re-sending, because my first attempt apparently got lost somewhere. > Apologies if gets found and this is now a duplicate.] > > > Hi devs, hi dir-spec.txt authors, > > when I reviewed the open proposals related to the directory protocol, I

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 164: Reporting the status of server votes (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 164 Reporting the status of server votes >> >> This proposal explains a way for authorities to provide a >> slightly more verbose document that relay operators can use to >> dia

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 147: Eliminate the need for v2 directories in generating v3 directories (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 147 Eliminate the need for v2 directories in generating v3 directories >> >> This proposal explains a way that we can phase out the >> vestigial use of v2 directory documents in keep

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 185: Directory caches without DirPort (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 185 Directory caches without DirPort >> >> The old HTTP directory port feature is no longer used by >> clients and relays under most circumstances. The proposal >> explains how

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 212, Increase Acceptable Consensus Age (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 212 Increase Acceptable Consensus Age >> >> This proposal suggests that we increase the maximum age of a >> consensus that clients are willing to use when they can't >> find a

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 165: Easy migration for voting authority sets (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > On 12/17/13 10:31 PM, Nick Mathewson wrote: >> 165 Easy migration for voting authority sets >> >> This is a design for how to change the set of authorities without >> having a flag day where the authority operators all reconfigu

Re: [tor-dev] Review of Proposal 215: Let the minimum consensus method change with time (was: Tor proposal status (December 2013))

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: [...] > Hi Nick, > > I'm probably missing something important here, but I don't know what. > > Right now, if a directory authority learns from the votes that more than > 2/3 of authorities support a consensus method higher that it can suppor

Re: [tor-dev] Dusting off dir-spec.txt

2014-01-06 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Karsten Loesing wrote: > [Re-sending, because my first attempt apparently got lost somewhere. > Apologies if gets found and this is now a duplicate.] > > > Hi devs, hi dir-spec.txt authors, [...] > Would you accept patches making these changes? I'm okay with re-or

Re: [tor-dev] Prevoting opinions suggested in proposal 147 (was: Dusting off dir-spec.txt)

2014-01-06 Thread Karsten Loesing
On 1/5/14 7:13 PM, Damian Johnson wrote: >> For example, status opinions (proposal 147)... > > Hi Karsten. Just looked at 147 to figure out the context for > overhauling the dir-spec Hi Damian, proposal 147 was just one example. Another example is proposal 164 which suggests to add vote infos a