[tor-dev] onionoo-announces

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 28/03/15 00:20, Nusenu wrote:
> Hi Karsten,

Hi Nusenu,

> the latest onionoo update 2.3 triggered a bug in my onionoo
> "client" (charset encoding). Even though it is a bug on my side,
> would you mind announcing future releases/deployments on
> onionoo-announce [1] including a short changelog?

Oh, I didn't expect the 2.3 update to break anything.  The change to
2.3 was just that we added optional "flags" field to uptime documents
on March 22, 2015.

The charset encoding things were bugfixes which still happened as part
of 2.2.1 (which numbers being major protocol version, minor protocol
version, and implementation version).  I had no idea these fixes would
break clients.  Oops.

In theory, only a major protocol update would break clients.  That's
why there's the "next_major_version_scheduled" field that gives you
hints about upcoming changes, and that's what onionoo-announce@ is
for.  I'm not sure if it's a good idea to announce implementation
changes there, mostly because there are so many of them.

One thing I have been thinking about: should I move announcements to
the tor-dev@ mailing list, rather than having the special-purpose
mailing list onionoo-announce@?  It's only been four messages in the
past six monts, and maybe more people would notice.  (I noticed when
arguing against a special-purpose tor-bridges@ mailing list, because
we already have tor-relays at .)

By the way, I should indeed start a changelog for implementation
changes.  There's already the protocol version log on the protocol
page (https://onionoo.torproject.org/protocol.html#general), but I
should also put a more detailed log into the source repository.

Thanks for the feedback!

All the best,
Karsten
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