Hi wonderful world. Post-release followup and recent interview with Ben Collier has kept me pretty busy, but have a couple other fun things to report…
Packaging Community
Commonly major releases are followed by followup packaging work and Nyx’s recent release was no exception. But rather than simply work with our delightful packaging community as I usually do I decided instead to bring order to the chaos.
I’m delighted to say we now have a tor-packagers@ list where Tor developers can reach our packaging community, and packagers can subscribe to be notified of new releases. To go along with this I also made a wiki that gives an overview of our packages…
Tor Relay: Caer Sidi
In folklore Caer Sidi was an otherworldly fortress, unsuccessfully assailed by the Prydwin in Arthur’s quest for the holy grail. It’s a name I’ve always wanted to use for a relay.
Flavor text aside, while ago I got permission from Dreamhost to run a non-exit relay on their cloud infrastructure so I’d have a busy relay on which to test Nyx. I haven’t tried pushing the envelope, but I can say it’s been a nice low-cost ($6/month) hosting experience thus far. It’s now listed as a good experience on our ISP wiki.