[tor-relays] Authorities: what is up?

[Andrew Lewis]

Because alpha tends to be pretty stable with tor, and the latest security fixes are in alpha a lot sooner. 

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On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net> wrote:

> On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote:
>> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides
>> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be
>> upgraded to 0.2.3.x to be allowed to vote along with the other dirauths,
>> so it doesn't immediately know about the new consensus. I don't know
>> when ides will be upgraded, but I hope the answer is soon.
> 
> Why do the authorities run an Alpha version of Tor instead of the (presumably less buggy) latest Stable version?
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