[squid-dev] Need help to understand Squid

[Vineet Awasthi]

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On 12 September 2017 at 22:12, Vineet Awasthi <
vineetawasthi.technocrat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Amos.
>
> I used UTC acronym for "Unit Test Cases" in my mail. Actually i want to
> understand the ACL (Access Control) part in squid so that i can add some
> timer based functionality on it.
>
> Thanks,
> Vineet
>
>
>
> On 12 September 2017 at 10:35, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> On 12/09/17 06:03, Vineet Awasthi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to understand the Squid source code in depth. so i can contribute
>>> in it. Could anyone help me about the UTC's that will help me about the
>>> same.
>>>
>>
>> Greetings and welcome aboard,
>>
>>
>> I am not sure what you mean by "UTC", that acronym has a dozen or so
>> meanings just in software design and QA. I doubt you mean UTC timezone
>> which is the most common use related to networking software like Squid.
>>
>> Our developer information can be found through the official Squid wiki
>> page <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/DeveloperResources>.
>>
>> The "Contributing code" section links to most of what we have in the way
>> of resources and what each is about. The rest of it is reading the code,
>> archaeology in the repo and archives, and fishing through our collective
>> brains on this mailing list.
>>
>>
>> You have probably noticed that Squid codebase is quite large and has a
>> mix of code languages in many styles of relative 'bad'. None of us
>> understand all of it in depth and there is a fairly large amount of code
>> churn involved with cleaning last centuries problems up. So please do not
>> set any high hopes in regards to in-depth understanding more than a few
>> sections in the current state of it all.
>>
>> Part of the ongoing work is to make Squid more modular to reduce the
>> knowledge needed to work on things. An indication of what sort of direction
>> you hope to work towards would be is most useful at this early stage.  So
>> is there anything a little more specific you are interested in finding out
>> today / first?
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Amos
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