Author: cmpilato
Date: Wed Aug 3 14:00:38 2011
New Revision: 1153493
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1153493&view=rev
Log:
Maybe help Greg see the explanation for why Serf isn't ready for primetime.
Modified:
subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS
Modified: subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS?rev=1153493&r1=1153492&r2=1153493&view=diff
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--- subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS (original)
+++ subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS Wed Aug 3 14:00:38 2011
@@ -169,12 +169,30 @@ Veto-blocked changes:
* 1.7.x-neon-default branch
Make neon the default http library.
Justification:
- Serf isn't ready, new code not enabled, no proposal to enable it.
- TortoiseSVN plans to ship with Neon as the default due to reports
- of instability from users. CollabNet will produce binaries with
- Neon as the default for the same reasons. Crash reports continue
- to arrive on the list (for example,
- http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0735.shtml).
+ Serf's relative stability is inferior to that of the rest of
+ Subversion, and for such a critical piece of our architecture,
+ this is unacceptable.
+
+ Subversion package producers have voiced a vote of no confidence,
+ and plan to ship with Neon as the default:
+ http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0751.shtml
+ http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-06/0796.shtml
+
+ Bug reports of the crash variety continue to be reported:
+ http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-07/0735.shtml
+
+ Serf floods the target server with orders of magniture more
+ requests, resulting in undesirable server log bloat.
+
+ Further, the promise of performance has not been realized:
+ https://ctf.open.collab.net/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.csvn/wiki/HTTPv2
+
+ (As an aside, Serf's potential as a platform for future
+ improvement remains unproven and doubtful. For example, HTTPv2
+ removes canonical resource URLs, which works against the caching
+ proxy concept that seems to be the strongest argument in favor of
+ Serf's approach. But that's not strictly germane here.)
+
rhuijben: Trivial problems like r1153138 should have been fixed a long
time ago if we don't want to delay releasing 1.7 on serf.
Votes:
