Hi, Sorry for the delayed reply, I intentionally waited until Dalsa Howto is ready so you could try it out easily if you are interested (http://wathsalav.blogspot.com/2010/02/dalesa-howto-why-do-i-need-dalesa.html). Dalesa is actually targeted for desktop computers, that means everyone with a computer. Right now it is only used inside our lab ;). But it is not limited to desktops only, the same is applicable for server clusters as well.
As I have mentioned in the proposal we are also interested in TS project and we could combine as you have mentioned. I think TS has a better HTTP handling capabilities than Dalesa. Thanks for your comments and I will check TS code this afternoon, hope it is using APR unlike Dalesa. Regards On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Leif Hedstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/02/2010 09:22 AM, Wathsala Vithanage wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We would like to incubate the project Dalesa at Apache incubator and join >> Apache Software Foundation. >> You can find the proposal at >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/DalesaProposal. >> >> Dalesa is a P2P web cache which could become an alternative to existing >> centralised web caches like Squid. At the moment we have a released the >> first release candidate of version 1.0.0. >> The project web is at http://dalesa.sourceforge.net >> > > Very interesting. First off, I think you have covered most bases in your > proposal, and the concept certainly makes sense. One thing that is unclear > to me is who the target users are (everyone with a computer?)? And who is > using it today? There are obvious overlaps between this proposal, and the > Traffic Server project, as you have pointed out. For example, TS already has > a "clustering" solution, which uses consistent hashing for distributing the > objects (granted, it's currently broken, but we'll fix that :). I'm sure > there are plenty of other pieces that would be very similar, a proxy is a > proxy after all. > > As such, if this proposal gets accepted, I think it's important and useful > for both TS and Dalesa to cooperate, sharing ideas as well as code (when > possible). Long term, I could possibly see the two being combined as one TLP > (but, we'll have to see what code pieces can be shared / merged etc., and > we're currently working hard to get a first TS release out the door). I > don't think any of the TS developers are IPMC members, so we can't help > mentor the project during incubation. But I myself would be willing to help > as much as I can as a contributor, to help you through incubation at least. > > Cheers! > > -- leif > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
