Re: [squid-users] Squid-2, Squid-3, roadmap

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 14:30 +1100, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> * Besides the availability of *CAP and ESI -- which are very
> specialised, and of interest only to a subset of Squid users -- is
> there any user-visible benefit to switching to -3?

class 4 delay pools, some request tagging stuff too IIRC.

> * What do the developers consider to be a success metric for -3?
> I.e., when will maintenance on -2 stop?

I think of this as apache 1.x and 2.x - maintenance on -2 won't come to
a hard stop until -3 (or -4, or whatever) is a solid viable upgrade
across the board.

> * Until that time, what is the development philosophy for
> Squid-2?
> Will it be only maintained, or will new features be added / rewrites
> be done as (possibly sponsored) resources are available? Looking at
> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/RoadMap/Squid2
> >, it seems to be the latter; is that the correct interpretation?

Folk will scratch their own itches - thats open source for you. I know
I'd really prefer it if features being added are *primarily* added to -3
- I'm totally supportive of backporting to -2, but would rather see it
as a backporting process rather than a forward porting process.

> * If that success metric is not reached, what is the contingency
> plan?

I don't know what you really mean here. Squid isn't a corporate entity
with a monetary either-or marketing/funding style problem.

> * How will these answers change if a substantial number of users
> willingfully choose to stay on -2 (and not just because they neglect
> to update their software)?

Well, I'd hope that at the minimum those users would file bugs on the
things about -3 that keep them on -2, so that developers can fix
them :).

>
> Also, a few questions for -users:
>
> * Who is using -3 in production now? How are you using it (load,
> use case, etc.) and what are your experiences?

I use -3, have for ages. But its trivial home-site accelerating and
browsing, so entirely uninteresting at the scope of yahoo :).

-Rob

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