At 10:25 AM -0500 2/5/03, Ben Hyde wrote: > >There is a fun transition in progress. The 1.3 crowd had a lot of people who were >very passionate about operational focus - i.e. apache embedded as a component in a >large complex system of other junk (people, business, middleware, whatever). >Overtime that assured that it aligned nicely with the needs of the people that run >real websites. > >The 2.0 crowd is more inward looking, very expert in how to engineer the web server >engine. When the 2.0 enterprise emerged a lot of 1.3 folks wandered off, the >refactoring work wasn't what they were passionate about. As 2.0 is adopted by the >operational crowd we will see more contributors with those passions returning. They >will help to make adoption and upgrade easier. They will help to polish the beast >into something that is fits their needs better and better. >
Ben makes an extremely good point above. Not to be a fuddy-duddy, but when developing the 0.x -> 1.3 releases, it was a lot about "Why do I, as a web adminstrator/user want and need" and we'd add that in. Just about every developer was also someone who depended on Apache. When 2.0 started, and up until "recently", the majority of the effort was getting to a point where you had a server that ran well enough that you could consider adding real-world functional needs. Personally, I think the time and effort spent on getting the engine foundation right and featureful made sense, since it provides a much better platform for the operational aspects. Some things that someone would want to do, operationally, was darn near impossible with 1.3, but quite doable with 2.0. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both and deserve neither" - T.Jefferson
