[Privoxy-devel] Changing the Privoxy version number scheme

[Fabian Keil]

Roland Rosenfeld <roland at spinnaker.de> wrote on 2023-01-05 at 16:36:26:

> On Thu, 05 Jan 2023, Ian Silvester wrote:
> 
> > By the by, one item to include in the release notes will be HTTPS
> > inspection support for macOS - just this morning I had confirmation
> > from my UAT tester.
> 
> Maybe it would be an option to release 4.0 with two great "new" features:
> HTTPS inspection and Client-Tags.
> Both of them are really great, but it's quite hard to understand how
> they need to be configured.
> So we could launch 4.0 with two new HOWTOs, that explain step by step
> with examples how to configure them.
> Okay, someone has to write these HOWTOs first, but Fabian suggested to
> change the version scheme _after_ the next release, so this should be
> possible.

I agree that this should be possible and think it's a great idea.
 
> In the next step we can explain how HTTPS inspection can be configured
> for only some sites but not all and switch over to Client-Tags which
> can be used to temporarily enable/disable HTTPS inspection via
> http://config.privoxy.org/client-tags (and how to enable/disable TOR
> as SOCKS proxy via the same mechanism).  I got all this up and
> running, but have to grep via my config files and the documentation to
> find out how all this depends on each other.
> 
> Last but not least you may have noticed, that my English is not that
> fluent...

I think you're English is good enough to write documentation.

I'm not a native English speaker either and it doesn't stop me
from committing documentation changes.
 
Fabian
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