Re: [squid-users] Re: Squid Future

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 17.03.08 10:18, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Just to summarise the discussion, both public and private.
>>
>> * Squid-3 is receiving the bulk of the active core Squid developers' focus;
>> * Squid-2 won't be actively developed at the moment by anyone outside
>> of paid commercial work;
>> * I've been asked (and agreed at the moment) to not push any big changes to
>> Squid-2.
>>
>> If your organisation relies on Squid-2 and you haven't any plans to migrate
>> to Squid-3, then there's a few options.
>>
>> * Discuss migrating to Squid-3 with the Squid-3 developers, see what can be done.
>> * Discuss commercial Squid-2 support/development with someone (eg Xenion/me).
>> * Migrate away from Squid to something else.
>>
>> Obviously all of us would prefer that users wouldn't migrate away from
>> Squid in general, so if the migration to Squid-3 isn't on your TODO list
>> for whatever reason then its in your best interests -right now- to discuss
>> this out in the open.
>
> I plan to migrate from Squie-2 to Squid-3 ASAP (got much other work to do)
> because my current primary goal is ICAP which is available in squid-3.
>
> Other, lower priority goals are
> - caching of frequently used content, like youtube and possibly microsoft*
> updates
> - COSS storage
>
> however in current situation even squid-2 is not a big win here, so I'm only
> staying with squid-2 because of lack of time...

The biggest hitch here is that COSS in -3 still need a number of
stability fixes ported up from 2.6. Is there anything you could do to
encourage someone to come out of the woodwork and do the COSS fixes you
are going to need?

Amos

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