On Monday 17 April 2023 at 20:52:41, Dr.X wrote:
> Could you please explain why the developers are upgrading Squid from
> version 4 to 5 and 6, while ignoring a critical built-in feature like
> Delay Pools that has been reported as a bug since Squid 4.x?
I am not a Squid developer, and I do not even pretend to speak for those who
are, but as someone familiar with Open Source Software in general, I would
suggest that:
a) Squid is an Open Source project
b) most Open Source projects are developed (at least at the start) by people
who have a personal need for whatever it is they set out to do
c) people work on the things they find most important and/or interesting
d) people work on the things they are best at (and can therefore make good
progress with)
e) people work on things they get paid to work on
f) your idea of "critical" may not match other peoples' priorities
So, if nobody is working on something that you think is rather important:
1. they might not have have a personal use for it, and therefore don't feel
inclined to spend time on it
2. they may not have the expertise to solve whatever the problems with it are
3. they may not have the time to make good progress on it, compared to any of
the other things that are on the list of "things to do"
Most Open Source projects (I believe Squid is included in this) offer to
develop specific features, or work on specific bugs, in return for payment from
anyone who thinks they should be worked on (or worked on more quickly).
So, if something is important to you (that's a generic "you"), you can pay for
someone to work on it.
You're also perfectly welcome to work on it yourself in order to improve the
code which everyone uses, and which you got for free to start with.
It's a basic tenet of Open Source Software that if you think it could be
better, you can improve it, or pay for someone else to improve it for you.
You're not forced to accept whatever "upgrades" some closed-source development
company decides they want to release, with no chance at all on your side to
make changes to the code.
Many Open Source projects have been completely forked (meaning that someone,
or some group, decides "we don't like the way this team of developers is
taking things, so we're going to start from the code base and take it in a
different direction") and in many cases both the original and the fork have
long and successful lives from that point onward. There's no way that could
happen with proprietary (closed-source) code.
Antony.
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