Re: squid-3 ?

Hi Alex,

At 06.41 16/08/2007, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:20 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 09:58 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:
> > >
> > >> Currently Squid is broken on all platforms without strtoll(), HP Tru64
> > >> is one.
> > >> I'm working on it, and I'm expecting to fix the problem and run some
> > >> tests on other platforms (Irix, NetBSD and OpenBSD) within the
> > >> incoming weekend.
> > >
> > > Sounds good, thank you.
> > >
> > >> I think that we must wait for two weeks to see if the latest
> > >> large-objects changes are reasonably stable.
> > >
> > > I think we should release an RC1 snapshot now.
> >
> > I was a bit undecided yesterday. I kind of want to wait a short while to
> > see if large-obj is stable enough, but not enough to speak up.
> >
> > But with strtoll as Guido said, I think its clearly too early for an RC.
> > PRE7 at the end of this week I would agree with if there are no other
> > majors discovered before then.
> >
> > As I see it a PRE is considered 'mostly usable'. But for a full RC I think
> > we should be certain it actually is good quality (for some new definition
> > of good ;-), I suppose).
>
>My understanding is that the unfiled(?) strtoll bug affects only a
>subset of platforms. RC1 can exclude those platforms from the supported
>list.
>
>However, if we indeed are going to have a fix this weekend and can agree
>to move forward to RC1 right after that (if there are no other
>showstoppers), I can live with that. There are probably some things that
>we need to do in preparation for an RC snapshot anyway.
>
>The primary idea behind RC1 is to bring in users who are ignoring PRE
>releases because there were so many PREs. We need more testers than a
>handful of folks running PREs on busy sites.

I agree with your primary idea about RC1, but this will be a "Release
Candidate".
So for me this mean that quality of the code should be very near to
the release quality.

As I know, there is only Microsoft that calls RC the beta releases of
its code .... :-)

I propose to set as planned date for RC1 Wed 23/08.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Fri Aug 17 2007 - 09:47:35 MDT