At 02:54 PM 11/25/2002, you wrote: >jim 2002/11/25 12:54:59 > > Modified: . Tag: APACHE_2_0_BRANCH STATUS > Log: > It appears that I am "unworthy" to have an opinion...
How do you mean? Don't read between the lines in my comments; backseat drivers *are* welcome, and you are one of the few who actively pursue 1.3 bugs [which is goodness!] Were my comments *that* offensive? Gheesh, gotta read my own comments three ways to Sunday. The gist of my message was that there are many different ways to participate and that nobody should dictate how someone participates (bug-hunter, doc-er, new -dev hacker, or however they want to participate!) I'm reading the resistance that folks against this whole 2.1 stuff want to pigeonhole developers into bug-fix mode and are resistant to progressing with a new version on the chance that 2.0 will be 'orphaned'. The bottom line of my message was that 1.3 fixers should be welcome, 2.0 fixers should be welcome, 2.1 new-code-hackers should be welcome. Each scratching their own itches. But that this group gets lost in folks beating each other up because that person isn't marching to the same drummer of another. That's normal. Rather than criticize one another or complain that folks don't want to all do the same thing, we aught to be able to pursue the side of httpd maintenance or development that we like. That includes new brainstorming that can't quite fit into whatever we are shipping today (e.g. Apache 2.0). Imagine for a moment if the list had told Ryan to sit out a year or two instead of pursuing his ideas for APR and filters? Would httpd be half of what it is today? Worse, for that time folks were discouraged from committing fixes or improvements to 1.3; why? Let hackers hack, let maintainers maintain. Let everyone provide input into the best way to go about things, and let the majority rule on structural and project things [while continuing our tradition of votes including hard vetoes against technical disputes.] No designations of what your 'role' is, everyone is self-designating around here, and most of us like wearing several hats. Apparently these points were lost because I stated it so badly, and I've offended several of you. Sorry. I'll shut up already. Bill
