Thanks for answering! I try to make a short answer, so I don't take up too much of your time.
Nick Mathewson: > So, we chatted about it a little, and we're not 100% actually sure > what the right answer should be there. We don't mind general questions > about other Tor-related projects, but we'd like to avoid having that > stuff ramp up faster than the Tor questions. Also we're also worried > that if we say 'yeah, sure, go ahead' then we'll get swamped with > support requests for stuff like "tormail," or the next Haystack, or > that it's going to turn into a promotional vehicle for somebody with a > forked Tor called tOr, or some drama like that. > > On the other hand, I don't want to have people decline to answer > questions like "What are all my options for a Tor-based operating > system?" or "How can I transparently proxy traffic to Tor on Windows". > So we need a good answer here, and I don't know what it is. I understand the dilemma. > How about we this: Let's all try to make an honest effort to *focus* > on stuff that Tor releases for now, answer relevant questions for > other Tor-related stuff as it shows up, and revisit this in a little > while, once we see how it goes? Sounds good. I'll use that forum in any case (as a user, not unasked as Whonix support forum). > Everybody's still working out how we want to use this, and it's only > going to work out if it has a happy, engaged community. That means > IMO we should avoid making and avoid looking for Big Policy > Pronouncements, and lean towards decisions of the form "let's try X > for now and see how it works out". At the moment I am more concerned about reaching stackexchange's users/questions/reputation requirements, which are very high, at all. Cheers, adrelanos _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
