On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Erinn Clark erinn@torproject.org wrote:
IMO this comes down to the question of: Can we make the alpha TBB branch stable fast enough to have it be useful for testing? The crash bugs that Roger mentions make it less than useful anybody trying to get good testing info for Tor. So if we think that one can get fixed in the next release, great, let's carry on.
But otherwise, I don't think it's a good idea to make Tor 0.2.3.x wait until an unknown number of bugs are fixed on an unknown timeframe.
The reason had I suggested doing Tor 0.2.3.x releases with the stable TBB for a while (not permanently) is that I personally don't have much sense of how far the TBB alpha is from stability. If, once #6492 etc are solved, it's stable and pleasant to use, great -- but if the browser remains crashy enough that folks can't actually use it, maybe we should stick with pairing Tor 0.2.3.x with the current TBB stable, and letting Tor 0.2.4.x and the alpha/experimental TBB stabilize together.
This is of course all said without full knowledge of everything that's going on; there are likely to be important facts here I don't know.
peace,