RE: Mini code-sprint report

 
Well, actually that's not the case.

When I proposed to my superiours to let me help get S3 stable I got the
very clear command to concentrate on S2.5. As the feature freeze of S2.5
didn't permit to do any useful work for us (ICAP) I didn't get
permission to do anything at all beside porting all the patches we need
for our setup and to do some patchwork to keep things going. After all
the problems Squid caused for our service, basically all ICAP+NTLM
related, and without possibility to get things fixed in the long run, we
are now about to change the proxy software.

So you see, the mini code sprint is a good thing, most likely too late
and not enough for me/us, but it might prevent Squid from loosing all
the support/userbase it has now. After all, there are other solutions,
also free or reasonably priced, doing all the stuff and that without a
hitch and with a better config interface.

Regards, Oliver

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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@squid-cache.org]
Sent: Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 19:03
To: Alex Rousskov
Cc: Squid Developers
Subject: Re: Mini code-sprint report

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Alex Rousskov wrote:

>> Getting someone to sponsor development in Squid-3 is as you note
extremely
>> difficult. But getting them to sponsor development to the current
STABLE
>> release AND squid-3 tends to work out much better in my experience.
>
> ... only if you promise to do more work for about the same amount of
> money (in my limited experience), which effectively means that Squid3
> code gets half-tested patches and becomes worse.

In my experience to these customers having the feature developed for
Squid-3 only is not an option until Squid-3.0.STABLE. But I have not
detected any significant unwillingness in also sponsoring the Squid-3
version of the same patch.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Oct 28 2005 - 01:51:46 MDT