I have been asked a few weeks ago about what the "goal for Squid-6" is going to be.
The last few version we have focused on C++11 optimizations and code upgrades. While the code is not entirely C++11 (and may never be) new additions are routinely using and upgrading code to the improved language features. NP: this is no way affects the policies of handling things as they come and release when its ready. It just gives people some rough direction to consider when struggling with selecting of new work to start. I am thinking it is time for a slight change to at least add another goal. They way held-back changes are going so far I am thinking we should aim at code pruning this next release series. For that to be a goal we need to start preparing for it and the user announcements early (ie now) rather than in retrospective. This would cover: 0) the ongoing project to clarify OS support and testing. Formally removing some. 1) remove features that have been deprecated since Squid-3 days. - WAIS support - Replace ICP with HTCP 2) proposing some next features to be removed ASAP, possibly removing them this release. - send-announce removal - SMB_LM helper removal 3) drop (all?) bitrotten code 4) statistic addition to measure feature use. To improve admin ability to answer our "are you using this feature" requests. Thoughts anyone? Amos _______________________________________________ squid-dev mailing list squid-dev@lists.squid-cache.org http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-dev
