On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:13, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > 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.
Thanks, Stefan!