Re: Future squid development

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Partly agreed, and I think you will see that the proposed approach
> actually gives this by restricting HEAD to only have changes which has
> passed a review and found reasonably stable.
>
> modio is one such change. It has passed a quite extensive review, and
> most stability problems in modio is also shared with the latest STABLE.
> Sure there has been a few modio specific bugs found and perhaps a few is
> still there, but the majority of the bugs was killed before it went into
> HEAD.
>
> What was lacking at that time was a good test environment to evaluate
> the stability and performance effects of the change. However, this is
> now in place as well thanks to a sponsor who has accepted to run these
> tests.
>
> Yes, there are some remaining open issues with modio, but those are
> mainly in design and performance, not stability.

Modio is a good example of how I think the squid development should go
forward. Someone (well, all of us, but Henrik had a nice summary page
up there) had an idea. Someone (me initially) hacked crazily on the idea
until it sprang into reasonable existance. Work is done on a seperate
tree with hno's magical CVS tools (which are WONDERFUL btw) . It was
committed with reasonable stability into the squid tree, and then because
people were reasonably hammering it a whole lot of new issues dropped
out of the tree (stuff like the disk load shedding/balacing, for example).
I've now taken some of the information from modio 1 and I'm preparing a
modio 2 patchset which should go into HEAD once 2.4-STABLE has branched off,
to address these issues and take it that one step forward.

What I don't want to see from now on is a whole bunch of patches forming
a seperate '-hno' style distribution which makes things a little more
harier to try and maintain.

Adrian

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