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

Hi everyone,

I'm quite disappointed in the lack of feedback from the community over this.
Its hard to figure out what people want if noone speaks up, so this is your
time to speak up.

Adrian

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Hello Squid folk,
>
> I maintain Yahoo!'s internal build of Squid, and serve as a resource
> for the various Y! properties that use it.
>
> We currently only use Squid-2, and don't have plans to migrate to
> Squid-3; although ESI, ICAP as well as eCAP look interesting, there
> are too many critical features (e.g., collapsed fowarding, refresh
> stale hit, full Vary/ETag support, not to mention several things in
> 2.7DEVEL0) missing for us to use it. Additionally, anecdotal evidence
> shows that it's still too unstable and slow for production use where
> these aspects are important; or at least, there is enough doubt about
> them to make switching too risky for too little benefit.
>
> I know that there's a lot of water under the bridge WRT -2 vs -3, and
> don't want to stir up what must seem like a very old discussion to the
> developers. However, there's not much clarity about the situation WRT
> 2 vs 3, and we've been in this state for a long period of time.
>
> Specifically, a few questions for the developers of Squid:
>
> * 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?
>
> * What do the developers consider to be a success metric for -3?
> I.e., when will maintenance on -2 stop?
>
> * 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?
>
> * If that success metric is not reached, what is the contingency
> plan?
>
> * 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)?
>
>
> 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?
>
> * Who is planning to use -3 soon? Why?
>
> * Who is not planning to use -3 soon? Why not?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham mnot@yahoo-inc.com
>

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