On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:19 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 2/29/2012 9:45 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:32 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> >>> It's the reason why mod_aspdotnet was ejected, and why mod_arm4, mod_ftp and >>> perhaps even mod_fcgid are all on their way out of the project as it is, >>> unless >>> more committers participate in those subprojects. >> >> The other way to approach it is to simply move them *into* the main >> project, and not as "subprojects"... > > Jim, I respectfully, but profoundly disagree. To have one or fewer > active maintainers of a given module in the core distribution is far > more problematic than having a stale subproject. The stale subproject > cries out for attention if users or developers want to make a release. > The core module languishes and impacts more and more users, and the > very reputation of this project.
mod_rewrite was an "external" subproject. I submit that it is doing better here, under the main tree. mod_proxy_html was the same. It is under the main. mod_sed... ditto mod_proxy was a subproject, but lives and thrives under the main. You mention that some modules aren't doing well. The ones you mention do not live under the main. The fact is that once a project lives under the main tree, it's part of our shared project...
