Author: Marco Calamari Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Arbitrary DNS queries... and Tor 0.2.2.x
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 12:22 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > Hi,
>
> alan@??? wrote (27 Jul 2011 07:36:55 GMT) :
> > I think it makes a lot of sense to actually switch the devel branch
> > to the current Tor beta version when it's available. By doing so, we
> > might notice bugs that other Tor users would not.
>
> Hrm... I'm not sure your proposal is taking into account that our
> devel branch is not an experimental playground, but rather something
> meant to become a Tails stable release at some point. According to
> this proposal, completed by the lines you wrote bellow, we would not
> be able to get a Tails major release out during the [ first beta,
> stable release ] time span, which does not seem reasonable to me.
>
> > In this particular case, I think it's a reasonable blocker to
> m> actually wait for the Tor project to declare the 0.2.2 branch as
> > stable before releasing Tails 0.8.
FroM a "concerned user" point of view, I totally agree to stick with
stable Tor branch.
Exception to this general rule can of course happen for serious reasons,
but the current one seems not enough important to me
