Re: Introducing myself

Alistair Reay wrote:
> Hi Alex, I think that'd be a good idea. The main thing stopping my
> company using Squid 3 is the lack of collapsed_forwarding. I'll find out
> who in the dev community is working on this and lend a hand.

Right now. Nobody I know of. We are concentrating on the shuffling
needed to get 3.1 out the door properly.

It's on the must-do list of stuff hoping to be in the next release
though. So any help you can give that way would be a step forward.

IIRC there is an old port for 3.0 which Henrick started on the old
devel.squid-cache.org CVS. I think it was either not quite complete
enough or waiting some tested before merging and got left to long. It
needs checking to see how relevant it is now and updating if it's still
useful or re-writing if not.

P.S.
  Hi Alistair :)
It's good to see other interest here in NZ.

Amos

>
> Cheers
> Al
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Rousskov [mailto:rousskov_at_measurement-factory.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 7:01 a.m.
> To: Alistair Reay
> Cc: squid-dev_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: Introducing myself
>
> On 04/20/2009 10:10 PM, Alistair Reay wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to introduce myself to the dev team and start helping out.
>>
>> My name is Alistair Reay and I'm a system engineer at a large New
>> Zealand broadcaster that uses Squid and other open-source software
>> extensively. Using squid we've built the nations largest and cheapest
>> commercial CDN for our VOD offering so I've got a vested interest in
>> helping Squid kick more ass. Although I'm not a professional
> developer,
>> I have a lot of interest in contributing code to this project and I've
>> created a production-ready load balancer project in SourceForge called
>> Octopus http://sourceforge.net/projects/octopuslb/ that works really
>> well behind Squid.
>>
>> Anyway, the first thing I'd like to do is investigate how
>> refresh_stale_hit works and try to improve it. I searched to
> squid-users
>> mail list and found this thread of conversation which is what I'd like
>> to implement in Squid2.7. If you'll have me, I'll subscribe to this
>> mailing list and make a new topic about this feature request then
> start
>> work.
>>
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0162.html
>> User's query/request (also what I'd like to be able to do)
>> http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200609/0167.html
>> Henrik's response
>
> Hi Alistair,
>
> If you have some cycles to spare, please consider helping with porting
> Squid2 features you use to Squid3. This will both help current Squid3
> users and will ensure a smooth upgrade path for your production caches.
> If you work on something new, please consider writing a Squid3 patch
> (and a Squid2 patch if necessary).
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alex.
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