[tor-dev] The Torouter project - where are we now?

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 04/23/2011 04:32 PM, Erinn Clark wrote:
> * Jacob Appelbaum <jacob at appelbaum.net> [2011:04:21 11:54 -0700]: 
>> It's a question for what we as a project can handle supporting - when a
>> new Tor is released, we'll need to build it unless we rely on upstream
>> builds. Runa and I suggest that we (Tor) may want our own OpenWRT
>> repository - that by default seems to fall directly on our main build
>> person, I think.
> 
> Jake and I discussed this on IRC and the basic summary is that for now we'll
> wait and see -- probably longer term we can support maintaining a repository,
> if that turns out to be the right route, but my role is going to be mainly
> infrastructure related so I can help make sure people are able to do what they
> need without blocking on me. 

One other important point made in that discussion is that no one seems
to have time for supporting an entirely new platform for every Tor
release. So while The Tor Project may support it - we have no one
willing to bell the cat today.

What this means practically is that as we've seen with Android, we're
going to seriously lag releases as it won't be the responsibility of any
single person or group of people. This won't work if we ship our own OS
(such as a custom OpenWRT image) and it will simply be difficult if
we're just shipping Tor (with or without supporting libraries).

All the best,
Jake