Hi Willy,
Op 14-12-2018 om 22:32 schreef Willy Tarreau:
if we manage to get haproxy.org to work reasonably stable this week-
end, it will be a sign that we can release it.
There are still several known issues that should be addressed before
'release' imho.
- Compression corrupts data(Christopher is investigating):
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg32059.html
- Dispatch server crashes haproxy (i found it today):
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg32078.html
- stdout logging makes syslog logging fail (i mentioned it before, but i
thought lets 'officially' re-report it now):
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg32079.html
- As you mention haproxy serving the haproxy.org website apparently
crashed several times today when you tried a recent build.. I think a
week of running without a single crash would be a better indicator than
a single week-end that a release could be imminent.?.
- Several of the '/checks/' regtests don't work. Might be a problem with
varnishtest though, not sure.. But you already discovered that.
And thats just the things i am aware off a.t.m..
I'm usually not 'scared' to run a -dev version on my production box for
a while and try a few new experimental features that seem useful to me
over a weekend, but i do need to have the idea that it will 'work' as
good as the version i update from, and to me it just doesn't seem there
yet. (i would really like the compression to be functional before i try
again..)
So with still several known bugs to solve imho its not yet a good time
to release it as a 'stable' version already in few days time.?. Or did i
misunderstand the 'sign' to release, is it one of several signs that
needs to be checked.?. I think a -dev11 or perhaps a -RC if someone
likes that term, would probably be more appropriate, before distro's
start including the new release expecting stability while actually
bringing a seemingly largish potential of breaking some features that
used to work. So even current new commits are still introducing new
breakage, while shortly before release i would expect mostly little
fixes to issues to get committed. That 'new' features arn't 100% stable,
that might not be a blocker. But existing features that used to work
properly should imho not get released in a broken state..
my 2 cent.
Regards,
PiBa-NL (Pieter)
