RE: Introducing myself

Hi Alex, I think that'd be a good idea. The main thing stopping my
company using Squid 3 is the lack of collapsed_forwarding. I'll find out
who in the dev community is working on this and lend a hand.

Cheers
Al

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 7:01 a.m.
To: Alistair Reay
Cc: squid-dev_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: Introducing myself

On 04/20/2009 10:10 PM, Alistair Reay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to introduce myself to the dev team and start helping out.
>
> My name is Alistair Reay and I'm a system engineer at a large New
> Zealand broadcaster that uses Squid and other open-source software
> extensively. Using squid we've built the nations largest and cheapest
> commercial CDN for our VOD offering so I've got a vested interest in
> helping Squid kick more ass. Although I'm not a professional
developer,
> I have a lot of interest in contributing code to this project and I've
> created a production-ready load balancer project in SourceForge called
> Octopus http://sourceforge.net/projects/octopuslb/ that works really
> well behind Squid.
>
> Anyway, the first thing I'd like to do is investigate how
> refresh_stale_hit works and try to improve it. I searched to
squid-users
> mail list and found this thread of conversation which is what I'd like
> to implement in Squid2.7. If you'll have me, I'll subscribe to this
> mailing list and make a new topic about this feature request then
start
> work.
>
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0162.html
> User's query/request (also what I'd like to be able to do)
> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0167.html
> Henrik's response

Hi Alistair,

  If you have some cycles to spare, please consider helping with porting
Squid2 features you use to Squid3. This will both help current Squid3
users and will ensure a smooth upgrade path for your production caches.
If you work on something new, please consider writing a Squid3 patch
(and a Squid2 patch if necessary).

Thank you,

Alex.
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