On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:02:51PM -0500, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>For example, the current oldest LTS series is 0.2.5.x. The first
>stable release in that series was 0.2.5.10. The highest consensus
>method listed by 0.2.5.10 is 18. Therefore, we should currently
>consider ourselve
> On 22 Feb 2018, at 04:02, Nick Mathewson wrote:
>
> Some consensus methods remove a feature that was used up to method
> N. Deprecating method M means that the feature is no longer used by
> any supported consensus methods. Therefore, we can remove any code
> that implements the feature
Filename: 290-deprecate-consensus-methods.txt
Title: Continuously update consensus methods
Author: Nick Mathewson
Created: 2018-02-21
Status: Open
1. Background
Directory authorities use the "consensus method" mechanism to achieve
forward compatibility during voting. When each authority pu
