Frank Bergmann wrote: > Hi! > > > I believe that it is important to consider the current > phase of the "live cycle" of AOLserver in order to focus > the roadmap on the important stuff: > > - AOLserver is "mature" software, there were relatively > few changes in the last few years. There are very > large productive installations relying on AOLserver.
I agree with this; we should be very careful to maintain compatibility and continue support of existing functionality. It seems there's a consensus that it's worthwhile to maintain windows support. > - AOLserver is close to the end of it's live cycle, > because there are few new installations. Instead, > many users and projects have already migrated away > towards Apache etc. > > - New features will probably convince few additional > people to use AOLserver. These I'm not so sure of. New features may or may not attract new people, but my larger concern is that without certain new features (e.g., support for new protocols like SPDY and WebSockets, and interfaces to popular infrastructure bits like memcache or NoSql databases) there will be increasing pressure to migrate away. > - Instead, and that would be my conclusion, new versions > of AOLserver should reduce the migration pressure for > existing users and allow the existing user to extend > the lifetime of their installations. This I agree with; but as above, a shiny new feature in apache/node.js/ngnix/etc that aolserver doesn't match creates migration pressure. > Would you agree with this assessment? Maybe we should have > a survey who is still using AOLserver really... I'd be very interested in seeing such a survey also. OpenACS and ]po[ are definitely the most visible users, but I think they are far from the only ones. -J ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ aolserver-talk mailing list aolserver-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aolserver-talk
