Re: Squid-3 release cycle

Hi Henrik,

At 00.55 12/04/2007, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>tis 2007-04-10 klockan 21:38 -0600 skrev Alex Rousskov:
> > Squid 3.1 is whatever comes after a stable 3.0 release. Open to
> > experimentation. Not currently branched (but could be if needed).
>
>I think it might be wise to branch Squid-3.0 after PRE6, and that the
>model currently used for Squid-2 is then applied to Squid-3 as well.

I agree.

> > > Question then becomes, where is the existing list of agreed features
> > > for 3.0-STABLE1 ??
> >
> > Whatever features have been committed already minus unstable optional
> > features.
> >
> > This is just my understanding, of course. Not claiming to express the
> > elusive consensus here...
>
>Shared here. But I'd probably not minus the unstable optional features,
>just not having then enabled by default and marked as experimental.
>
>Squid-3.0 was originally supposed to match Squid-2.5 except being C++.
>It's already far beyond that. Sadly over time Squid-2 and Squid-3 has
>diverged a bit from each other and for the foreseeable future there will
>be some features "missing" in Squid-3 only to be found in Squid-2. But
>assuming Squid-3 gets stable it should quickly gain ground and the gap
>from Squid-2 will shorten as people gets interested in what Squid-3 can
>provide and there gets some motivation to get the important missing
>things to Squid-3 as well. Some of the missing things probably isn't
>very important, and can be left to rot in Squid-2 when focus gets moved
>to Squid-3.
>
>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

Regards

Guido

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