Dave great summary - thanks. I am +1 on recutting from master
On 28 March 2014 15:08, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for summarising this from IRC Dave. Model ASF behaviour. :) > > I am +1 for re-cutting from master, unless there's some specific > technical reason not to do so. > > On 28 March 2014 14:52, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't comment on what to do w.r.t the socket issue. But I'm +1 for > cutting a new branch for 1.6 > > > > > > On 28 Mar 2014, at 3:39 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> In this week's IRC meeting we discussed what's up with 1.6.0. While the > decision > >> rests with the Release Manager djc@ it's worth discussing. > >> > >> # Blockers > >> > >> We have 1 blocker, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1986and > >> the > >> fix is simply setting the tcp receive buffer size to 32786, or 4x the > previous > >> value. > >> > >> Exactly why this is a now a problem and wasn't before is not clear, but > in > >> a couple of weeks of fiddling we've not come up with a better solution, > and > >> nobody's found other issues as a result of it. > >> > >> In the meeting we put forward 3 options for how to include this fix in > the > >> source: > >> > >> 1. uncomment the equivalent line in default.ini > >> > >> socket_options = [{recbuf, 262144}, {sndbuf, 262144}, {nodelay, > true}] > >> > >> 2. update the default value directly in /src/mochiweb/internal.hrl > >> > >> -define(RECBUF_SIZE, 8192 * 4). > >> > >> 3. change the specific setting only for the replication tests > >> > >> This boils down to "have people been seeing this in the real world?" > and the > >> answer is yes, with pretty severe impact. > >> > >> Please pick one! > >> > >> # Patch 1.6.x branch or update to current master > >> > >> Personally I'm undecided on this, master has 180 further commits , esp > >> Fauxton, and also a few other important ones. These could be cherry > picked > >> but is there any reason not to cut a new 1.6.x off current master > instead? > >> I've no real view of the actual work involved BTW, so please educate me. > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/couchdb/compare/1.6.x...master > >> > >> Comments? > >> > >> -- > >> Dave Cottlehuber > >> Sent from my PDP11 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
