On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Christos Tsantilas wrote:
I would like to help more on develpment squid-2.5 ICAP branch.
Great!
I am goint to try but please do not abuse me about the result.....
My only problem is that I don't know if I will have enough time for maintaining the icap branch.
It doesn't require very much time, most of the routine job is automated using scripts. The main criteria is being able to take the time required to run these scripts and fix up conflicts when required to keep the patch up to date.
I am spending most of my spare time for c-icap developement. But, on the other hand, c-icap without a good icap enabled proxy, has not any reason to exists...
If you use Squid-ICAP in your testbed then maintenance becomes quite natural. As long as one is keeping the maintenance reasonably active it is not much of a burden. Problem only arises when a long time passes allowing the amount of changes between the branch and the current version to accumulate, making conflicts harder to resolve.
The Squid development process is a fairly open process as you can see on http://devel.squid-cache.org/. But for a development or branch of Squid to keep active requires one or two developers actively caring for it. As already expressed in this thread the ICAP branch is currently a bit on the low edge of amount of developers working on it.
I am spending most of my spare time for c-icap developement.
Same for me, but Squid ;-)
But, on the other hand, c-icap without a good icap enabled proxy, has not any reason to exists...
And ICAP enabled Squid is very powerful, and available for all to deploy their ICAP solutions.
May I ask, do you know someone (individual or company) which work on icap client for squid-3?
I plan to start working on ICAP for Squid-3 before the summer. Unfortunately Squid-2.5 maintenance (including my Squid-2.5 branches; ssl, custom_log, icap_streaming, rproxy, collapsed_forwarding, external_acl_fuzzy and a few more) is still taking up too much of my available time to allow me to focus fully on Squid-3 just yet, but the number of unresolved bugs in Squid-2.5 is steadily declining even if some new bugs is introduced every now and then so things are looking very optimistic.
Regards Henrik
