There's a lot of really innovative stuff going on with the naviserver project, and they've done a lot of work to stay in sync with changes being made to the core AOLserver project. I suggest folks check it out.
- n On 8/3/07, John Buckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, in the spirit of open source software meritocracies: please place > > your money where your mouth is. Come up with a list of actionable > > changes you'd make if you were king. Lets hear it--and if everyone > > agrees to a particular change, we'll declare it made. (Note: > > declaring > > anything to a volunteer-driven organization doesn't guarantee that > > anyone will actually do it.) > > In no way do I want to be king, and in an effort to calm things down > a bit, let me say that I'm really, really happy with aolserver, and > the last major release had amazing things in it. My only real nit is > that so many cool things are not-so-well-documented, but hell, it's > open source. I just spot things in the text files, and then figure it > out by reading the C code, which is often commented, but always clean > and readable. > > On the subject of cool things and not-so-well-documented, I'd like to > bring up Naviserver (you can find it on sourceforge, it's an > independent fork of aolsever, at http://naviserver.sourceforge.net). > Their fork of aolserver has an insane number of changes to it, and > lots of great ideas (look at http://naviserver.cvs.sf.net/naviserver/ > naviserver/ChangeLog?view=markup). There's a handful of developers > working on it, and it seems like a real hotbed of innovation. > > I've not used naviserver, though I evaluated it seriously, because it > has so many differences to aolserver, almost all undocumented, that > it was really hard for me to get up to speed to, and I found it less > reliable than aolserver, probably because of all those innovations. > I kind of like the slower pace of aolserver, I can actually run a > production web site on it. This is not meant as an insult to Vlad and > the other Naviserver developers, I'm just pointing out how the two > development communities differ. > > However, I was wondering if we should perhaps look at merging back > some of the best things in naviserver, back into aolserver. In fact, > maybe we should treat the aolserver/naviserver split like ubuntu > treats its two releases, and recognize that naviserver as an > innovative, highly chaotic playground, and merging back in the best > ideas from it back into aolserver after a long delay (6 months to a > year) once each feature has settled down a bit and we can evaluate > whether, in hindsight, it really was a good idea and the way it was > implemented turned out well. > > I'd be game to go through the naviserver changelog in the future, and > be part of a discussion of what is in there that we might want to > merge back into aolserver. > > -john > > > -- > 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. > -- Nathan Folkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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.
