On 2/16/24 2:10 PM, Eric Covener wrote:
>> Will apreq 2.18 still be released?
>
> I think we should, but we need someone to do the release work and 3
> active PMC members to approve it. Prior to the recent activity, the
> subproject was essentially unchanged and unreleased for 10 years (with
> 1 failed release due to lack of votes)
>
> I would like to understand if libapreq remains viable as a project
> managed by the httpd PMC. We had this conversation last year on the
> private list and the next step is to bring it here.
I reread the thread on the private list. Did the discussed reach out to other
PMC's happen?
>
> It is possible the next release comes with an end-of-life date in the
> future. If this codebase has a community elsewhere, they should join
> us or take it over.If there is anyone out there who wants to get more
> involved, please speak up.
>
>
> I count myself as a release vote of last resort only, but i don't
> think we should be committing to future fixes/releases if nearly
> everyone is in this category.
I am in that category as well.
I don't have time in the foreseeable future to evaluate if its worth keeping at
least parts of it in trunk to be used for the
locations in httpd where we parse form data (there are some). I guess it could
be beneficial to have this capability in a central
location.
OTOH looking in what we have in trunk I am a bit confused. The trunk code does
not seem to have the perl
glue any longer that is present in the standalone code. Did it go somewhere
else back then? How
would perl users continue to use it even if we would release trunk today and
would close down the
standalone apreq with a terminal release today?
I would be trying to help with a vote on a terminal release by this PMC if no
one else wants to take over the code base as is,
but we should clearly retire it then.
As we discussed back then I am not sure if it will be possible to move it into
the Attic or
if there is some other way. In the worst case we just note it at
https://httpd.apache.org/apreq/
As far as I can tell there is no offer to download it from our downloads page.
Hence even today
people need to go to https://dlcdn.apache.org/httpd/libapreq/ directly.
Regards
Rüdiger
