On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:56:34AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 01:30, <gst...@apache.org> wrote: > > Author: gstein > > Date: Wed Aug 17 05:30:23 2011 > > New Revision: 1158522 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1158522&view=rev > > Log: > > IMO, issue 3979 should be fixed if ra_serf is the default, but we're too > > late in the cycle for the necessary work. Ship with Neon. > > I would like to be very clear about something here: > > The bugs that arrived "last minute" are (IMO) due to a failing in the > community to properly test ra_serf. And now we have kicked the damned > can down the road. I fear that we're going to run into the same > fuckin' problem when we try to ship 1.8, and it makes me cranky. > > Configure your client with ra_serf. Disable Neon. Test it. And if you > have a problem, then FILE A BUG. Do it. > > We need serf to properly deal with our goal of "request only the > pristines (by SHA) that we need". Failing to properly test ra_serf > impacts our future direction. PLEASE: no more of this "test at last > minute" crap that has happened.
I've put a call for user testing into the 1.7 release notes.
