Ryan Bloom wrote: >>Bill Stoddard wrote: >> >> >>>Design and implementation of Apache 2.0 is nearing completion. Module >>>authors are encouraged to review the Apache 2.0 API and share any >>>concerns with the Apache development team at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>This is your best opportunity to ensure that your issues are >>>addressed prior to an Apache 2.0 General Availability release. >>> >>>Bill sez... 2.0.32 may very well be our first GA release... >>>
it might be. lets just get the beta out first, and see how people find it what >we< should be concentrating on now is fixing the bugs in the beta, and not adding any new features or 'fixing' things which work. this is how I believe we will get to a GA from here. If cliff's changes require a API change, we could do the API change now (post .32) and that will get the pressure of cliff on producing the whole patch, leaving him more time to test it. how does that sound? my 2c (4c in Australian money ;-) Ian >>> >>I have one concern about 2.0.32 as a GA candidate. >> >>In order to fix the last of the performance problems >>in 2.0.x, we'll need to incorporate free lists for >>buckets (the stuff that Cliff is working on). I'm >>assuming that the bucket free list will require API >>changes. If so, then it would be difficult for 3rd >>party module maintainers if we announced a 2.0.32 GA >>release, with bucket-brigade-based filter support as >>one of its major new features relative to 1.3, and then >>released 2.0.33 or .34 with API changes to the bucket >>code shortly thereafter. >> > > I have a pretty major concern about releasing .32 as a GA product. We > haven't had a whole lot of beta's. I would really like to get this beta > into a lot of people's hands, and hopefully get our next release to be a > GA release. I think that the best way to do this, is to send a message > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when we release .32. The message to krow should > suggest that we believe that we are close to a GA product, but that we > want to get this beta into as many hands as possible. Krow is the guy > who posts Apache news to Slashdot. If he mentions that in the /. post, > a lot of should download and test, and we can feel more confidant about > the quality of this release. > > Ryan > > >
