[tor-relays] Guard before Stable flag?

[John Ricketts]

Thank you Roger.

> On Nov 3, 2016, at 01:01, Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 12:42:18PM +0000, John Ricketts wrote:
>> When looking at my list on Atlas (21 entries) I'm seeing that some of my relays are getting the Guard flag before they become stable.
>> 
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/quintex
>> 
>> I'm going to make the assumption this is normal behavior but I still find it odd.
> 
> I agree that this particular behavior is odd. In fact, we put in a
> fix to prevent it from happening:
> 
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/ChangeLog?id=tor-0.2.9.4-alpha#n614
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18624
> 
> But that fix is only in 0.2.9.1-alpha, and 7 of the 8 directory
> authorities are still on 0.2.8.x. So they'll get it when they upgrade
> (which will be a ways after 0.2.9.x goes stable probably).
> 
> As for why the Stable flag is confusingly assigned, teor's answer is
> a good one.
> 
> --Roger
> 
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