[tor-dev] [tor-relays] Marker branch for current tor release(s)

[teor]

(I dropped tor-relays, we can tell them when we reach a conclusion.)

Hi Nick,

Can we maintain an "alpha" branch with the latest Tor alpha,
and a "stable" branch with the latest Tor stable?

It would help some relay operators.

And it would also help us get more alpha testing:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/24994#comment:4

Because the experimental deb repos on this page are tied to a
particular release of Tor:
https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

> On 13 Jan 2018, at 09:06, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 13 Jan 2018, at 08:07, Andreas Krey <a.krey at gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>> (Earlier reply has somehow vanished...)
>> 
>>> On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:49:16 +0000, teor wrote:
>>> ...
>>> When there are multiple supported tor versions, which one should be stable?
>>> At the moment, we support 0.2.5 and 0.2.9 as long-term support, and 0.3.0 and
>>> 0.3.1 as regular releases.
>> 
>> The newest/highest, probably. Essentially the one also
>> proclaimed as stable on the source download page.
>> 
>>> Should stable be 0.3.1 (and change to 0.3.2 next week)?
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>> Do you want a long-term support branch as well?
>> 
>> No. I just need one version to build a relay.
>> 
>> ...
>>> If you want something that's easier to scrape, and signed, check for
>>> new source releases at:
>> 
>> Scraping would be a fallback.
>> 
>> ...
>>> $ curl http://197.231.221.211:9030/tor/status-vote/current/consensus-microdesc | grep server-versions | tr "," "\n" | tail -1
>>> 0.3.2.8-rc
>> 
>> Basically current would be the highest non-rc on the list,
>> and alpha would be the -rc (or current if no -rc present).
> 
> We also tag releases with "alpha", so these should be included
> in the alpha branch as well.
> 
> Is there any reason you can't use the source tarballs for this?
> They are signed, unlike git branches.
> 
> https://dist.torproject.org/
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