Re: 1.8 Progress

On 11/30/2012 09:44 AM, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:52 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> [I'm going to try to summarize the body of responses generated from this
>> original query -- a conversational reset, if you will -- so as to keep this
>> line of inquiry moving toward closure.]
>>
> [..]
>
>>
>>> 3) libsvn_ra_serf stabilization. I know there have been a couple concerns
>>> that Philip has raised (EAGAIN and the random failures).
>>
>> Philip and Ivan both seem keen on reinstating ra_neon.
>>
> While I was strongly against making ra_serf as default in svn 1.7, I
> don't remember that I suggested to reinstate ra_neon.

Oops! Sorry for misrepresenting you views!

> I believe that most of the issues comes from the skelta mode (XML
> report with many PROPFINDs/GETs) update editor implementation in
> ra_serf.

[...]

> We already reduced number of requests for 1.8 servers, so may be we
> can choose to use "skelta mode" for 1.8 servers and non-skelta
> (ra_neon style) for pre-1.8 servers?

I'm adding send-all support to ra_serf right now, but will leave it #if'd
out until we decide in what scenarios we wish to use it.

>> OWNERSHIP: I can claim ownership of the ra_serf side of things if
>> Lieven and Ivan (or others) can step up to advise me and to cover the
>> Serf part itself.
> I'm ready to help you!

Awesome. Thanks.

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