On Wednesday 09 February 2005 08:13, Malte Sussdorff wrote: > On a related note, what is the downside of having an AOLserver stable > branch, where only the AOL approved developers have access to and a testing > branch where everyone can add their patches to. Needless to mention that > from time to time the stable branch needs to be merged with the testing one.
I believe the management overhead is/could be the issue. OTHO, I would not say "AOL approved developers". This is supposed to be an Open Source project, right? > > As for importance of development, if Dossy is strikt about not letting > others participate actively in the core development (read: give them CVS > access without the need for one person to accept patches), then the main > interest would be to rewrite the modules part of AOLserver to a degree where > all the functionality that has been written and needs patches to work can > work smoothly as a module. And while we are at it, we could write an Apache > Modules wrapper ;-). I think that AS module infrastructure is already very good. But, there are spots which need touches for quite a long time already. Also, the tight integration of http protocol (understandably, if you see AS as pure web-server) has cut-off (or at least made difficult) additions of other pluggable protocol modules. This is one of the issues which is so fiercefully discussed here. See this (my personal) view: I'm all for refactoring the server to even better support modules of all kinds, including alternate protocol modules. I have the CVS write-commit privs, as about 58 other project members. I'm also convinced that some RFE's sitting in the queue are of quality to be included in the current dev branch. Yet, I'm not commiting them. Why? Am I lazy? Well, I'm not. I'm just *afraid* that this will/might/could collide with the global project direction and doing this will result in my additions being backed-out out of the repository, leaving me out in the rain with lost time and shattered self-confidence. And guess what? I do not know the direction! Isn't that absurd? Am I being too paranoic? So, the question is not wether core should be rewritten to support modules better or not (it definitely should). The question is: who is going (to be allowed) to do that? Zoran -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
