Re: [squid-users] squid 2.7 vs 3.x

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:34:32 +0900

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008, Matt Benjamin wrote:

> I'm happy to see forward movement in any direction. However, I think
> it's strongly in the interest of all Squid developers and users to get
> together and structure a single road-map to a future that is really
> delivered, with frequent incremental delivery of new code.

The other thing to realise is that we get almost no donations at all.
Its easy to put up a road-map, but its hard to put up a road-map unless
developers commit; and developers who are all working for free aren't
really able to commit to everything.

The majority of the Squid development over the last few years has been
driven by specifically funded projects. This has the advantage of getting
work done, but the disadvantage that stuff is really just pushed in
to get the work specification done (and thus get paid) rather than
what I believe should happen - wide-scale codebase improvements, restructuring
and tidying up with a long-term goal of making it easier to do "stuff".
We just seem unable to get funding for "making the codebase look better".

Adrian
Received on Sun Jan 13 2008 - 18:25:01 MST

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