On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Jun 19, 2013, at 9:09 PM, jcor...@apache.org wrote: >>> >>>> Author: jcorvel >>>> Date: Thu Jun 20 01:09:20 2013 >>>> New Revision: 1494829 >>>> >>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1494829 >>>> Log: >>>> Add information about serf skelta mode and the configuration knobs involved >>>> to the 1.8 release notes. >>>> >>>> Patch by: lgo >>>> (tweaked by me) >>>> >>>> Modified: >>>> subversion/site/publish/docs/release-notes/1.8.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> +<div class="notice"> >>>> +<p>For 1.8 servers, set <strong>SVNAllowBulkUpdates</strong> to >>>> +<strong>Prefer</strong> if your server configuration does not allow an >>>> +intermediate caching server - on your side or on the client's side - to >>>> +successfully cache server responses.</p> >>>> +</div> >>>> >>> >>> I do not understand why we would make this recommendation. It seems overly >>> strong. >>> >>> This whole section paints Serf in a really negative way as it makes it >>> sound like skelta mode has little value. >>> >> >> Agreed, let's yank that notice. As I said in my other reply (which I >> just sent before reading yours :-), this ignores the client-side >> optimization of not requesting pristines that are already at the >> client side. > > Okay, I removed it. > > As I said, I'll leave it to someone else to advertise the > pristine-fetching benefit. > I don't like such big last minute changes to release notes and will be glad if all change will be reverted until we find best wording for this details.
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