roadmap preview

Hi everyone,

Here's a sneak preview of where the Squid project is heading over the next
few months.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap

the highlights:

* Squid-3.0 is going to be released as a "feature complete" release
* The release will be touted as "complete but not as fast as Squid-2.6".
* The aim is to concentrate on bringing over the last few features from
  Squid-2.6 and fix any and all bugs that creep up during the testing
  phase.
* The focus will shift from bugfixing to performance work after FC has
  stabilised. The bare minimum will be done to bring Squid-3 performance
  up to rough par with Squid-2.6.
* We'll revisit general performance related changes and new features
  (especially gzip encoding!) for Squid-3.1.

Now, I've done a bunch of profiling with Squid-3 and I've done a bunch of
work with the client side parser code in Squid-2. There's a huge amount
of room for improvement but the only way we're going to benefit from any
of it is to selectively choose areas to concentrate on. What I think we
must avoid is a mad rush of code changes that we all want to throw in
after Squid-3 has been released - I don't want Squid-3.1 to fall prey
to whats made Squid-3 take so long to release.

I've also started a section of the wiki to put configuration examples.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/

I'll announce this at the same time.

Now, I can only hope Doug comes back from his holiday soon to continue
kicking along the Squid-3 release schedule. I hear he's really enjoying
his time off. :)

Adrian
Received on Thu Sep 14 2006 - 08:27:23 MDT