Re: Squid-3 release cycle

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 20:31 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:

> >The probably biggest yell from users will be the lack of support for
> >passthru connection oriented authentication (NTLM/Negotiate/Kerberos),
> >aka connection pinning. The rest of the feature gaps is pretty minor I
> >think.
>
> Here I think that a methodical comparison between 2.6 and 3.0 is needed.
> Probably there are a lot of not so big changes missing in 3.0.
> Some recent examples:
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1931
> http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1863
> http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1891

I doubt we must support all useful Squid 2.6 configuration directives in
Squid 3.0. Would it be nice? Certainly! Is it an absolute requirement
for a stable Squid 3.0 release? I do not think so. We should apply every
small, clear, tested pending patch to Squid3. Other optional features
can wait for Squid 3.1.

IMO, if we can support enough directives to accommodate 51% of current
Squid2 users, that is enough. We would not be able to fix bugs fast
enough if we accommodate 90% anyway!

Alex.
Received on Thu Apr 12 2007 - 13:19:49 MDT