On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Mark Phippard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:09 PM, [email protected] 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. -- Johan
