[tor-bugs] #28684 [Core Tor/sbws]: Make sbws easy to understand and maintain

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#28684: Make sbws easy to understand and maintain
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 Reporter:  juga           |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium         |      Milestone:  sbws: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/sbws  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal         |     Resolution:
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Comment (by juga):

 Replying to [comment:5 teor]:
 > Replying to [comment:4 juga]:
 > > Replying to [comment:3 teor]:
 > > > But no-one is parsing the bandwidth file yet, so if we want to make
 major changes, now would be a good time.
 > >
 > > We can create a child ticket for changing the keys in the bandwidth
 file, do it after 1.0 and upgrade the other milestones to 2.X.
 >
 > We could change the keys in the bandwidth file, or we could leave them
 as they are, and document the abbreviations.
 > I am not sure if changing the keys is worth it. We would also have to
 change the spec.
 > Edit: and fix any bugs that we create in the change
 >
 > juga, do you think that changing the keys will make sbws a lot easier to
 maintain?
 > If it won't, or if it will take a lot of time, we should just focus on
 fixing bugs and deploying sbws.

 I agree that just changing the name of the keys doesn't affect much on the
 maintainability of sbws and i agree will take some time, however as you
 said, if we don't do it now we'll have those keys for longer time. I don't
 know...

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