Hi everyone, As some of you might be aware, I'm one of the Squid developers. I pop in from time to time to do various performance-related work on Squid. The two main constraints to me doing the work are what seems to be the norm with open source developers today: time and money. I see a lot of people chasing support for features like the WCCPv2 functionality but its difficult to test and fix these problems without access to the right types of equipment. In my case, I only have a single Cisco router which doesn't have enough RAM/Flash to run any of the more recent IOSes people have had trouble with. Most of the recent advances have come from contributors who are using Squid in their place of employment and have access to the right kind of kit. This is a blessing (ie, we get the functionality - thanks to Steve Wilton for his WCCPv2 code!) but unfortunately once it "works here" there may not be available resources to make it work for other configurations, with other equipment. So what I'd like to do is ask the Squid user community to consider donating towards the Squid project. There's plenty of work that can be done! With this in mind, Duane Wessels has setup a paypal account which people can donate towards the Squid project. Squid isn't a non-profit organisation and so donations aren't tax-deductable but we'll be quite loud and proud about those who do donate - including donors in the upcoming Squid release documentation, adding them to the Squid website and generally trying to make everyone aware of those companies and individuals that provide financial support and/or testing equipment. This, and the equipment wish list which the Squid developers have been discussing for a few weeks (but only I've filled out so far!) can be found linked off the Squid website under "Donate". The direct url is: http://www.squid-cache.org/donate.html I'd like to thank those who have donated time, equipment and financial support to the Squid project in the past and thank anyone in advance who helps out! Thankyou! Adrian
