Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

[Henri Gomez]

Peter J. Cranstone a écrit :

It's not anymore "cool" to work on Apache.


You nailed it - because no one knows where it's going. Where's the focus,
what does Apache really want to be, whose leading the charge?
I've been following this forum a long, long time and the change in the last
2 years has been the most dramatic - the old guard has gone, there is little
leadership and even less reason to do anything.
It takes a tremendous amount of work to build a quality software project and
sadly there is little enthusiasm to really improve Apache. 

One reason is obvious - with 66% of the market you're a monopoly (close) and
we've all seen what happens when competition disappears from the market
place.
I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters.

If you want to improve something, you should provide solutions,
not critics.
HTTPD have 66% of the market and that's great to see that
an OpenSource solution is well behind M$.
Sun, Oracle and majors corps have stopped dreaming having 50% of market
share some years ago.
At least we could say, Apache Software Foundation does it and
maintain its leading position.
How ?

- By producing solutions like HTTPD which are stable,
  full featured and works on so many platforms.
Revolution is for new players, carefully crafted evolutions are for the 
mass.