R: Squid-2.7 being moved to "old releases"

Hi Henrik,

On the Windows side, I have an update for Windows native helpers ready to be committed. I will commit it during the week end.

Reagrds

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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Henrik Nordström [mailto:henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net]
> Inviato: martedì 21 giugno 2011 1.09
> A: Squid Develpers
> Oggetto: Squid-2.7 being moved to "old releases"
>
> With the release of Squid-3.2 it's about time we drop Squid-2.7 as a
> supported release. Maintenance of Squid-2 have already fallen way
> behind, not receiving anywhere close to the attention deserved for a
> "supported release" with all currently active developers mainly focusing
> on Squid-3.
>
> Squid-3 have in the meantime also gained a lot of interesting
> functionality, both ported from Squid-2 and new functionality,
> considerably closing the upgrade feature gap. There is still some
> feature gap left, but it is getting smaller and smaller.
>
> One way to see this is that if you or someone you know is stuck in
> Squid-2.7 for some reason then it's about time to look into solving that
> now. In reality that should have been done years ago.
>
> In practice it does not mean that much as maintenance of Squid-2.7 is
> already practically stopped with last release over a year ago. Partly
> because there isn't very much left to fix in the release, but also
> because there simply isn't any project resources actively working on
> Squid-2 maintenance.
>
> There is some bug fixes pending in the Squid-2 merge queue, sufficient
> to compose a final release, but if you know of any more Squid-2 bugs
> that really should be fixed please speak up now.
>
> Then there is some feature stuff in Squid-2.HEAD, but I think these will
> remain there. I do not see sufficient momentum for branching a Squid-2.8
> release.
>
> See http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.HEAD/changesets/merge.html
> for lists of both pending merges to 2.7 and 2.HEAD specific features.
>
> So at the moment it looks like there will be one final Squid-2.7 release
> collecting some pending bug fixes, after which maintenance of the
> Squid-2 tree will cease completely, enabling the project to focus
> entirely on Squid-3.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
Received on Thu Jun 23 2011 - 07:55:45 MDT