On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:09 PM, jcor...@apache.org wrote: >> >>> Author: jcorvel >>> Date: Thu Jun 20 01:09:20 2013 >>> New Revision: 1494829 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1494829 >>> Log: >>> Add information about serf skelta mode and the configuration knobs involved >>> to the 1.8 release notes. >>> >>> Patch by: lgo >>> (tweaked by me) >>> >>> Modified: >>> subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html >>> >>> >>> >>> +<div class="notice"> >>> +<p>For 1.8 servers, set <strong>SVNAllowBulkUpdates</strong> to >>> +<strong>Prefer</strong> if your server configuration does not allow an >>> +intermediate caching server - on your side or on the client's side - to >>> +successfully cache server responses.</p> >>> +</div> >>> >> >> I do not understand why we would make this recommendation. It seems overly >> strong. >> >> This whole section paints Serf in a really negative way as it makes it sound >> like skelta mode has little value. >> > > Agreed, let's yank that notice. As I said in my other reply (which I > just sent before reading yours :-), this ignores the client-side > optimization of not requesting pristines that are already at the > client side.
Okay, I removed it. As I said, I'll leave it to someone else to advertise the pristine-fetching benefit. -- Johan
