It's not anymore "cool" to work on Apache.
You nailed it - because no one knows where it's going. Where's the focus, what does Apache really want to be, whose leading the charge?
I've been following this forum a long, long time and the change in the last 2 years has been the most dramatic - the old guard has gone, there is little leadership and even less reason to do anything.
It takes a tremendous amount of work to build a quality software project and
sadly there is little enthusiasm to really improve Apache.
One reason is obvious - with 66% of the market you're a monopoly (close) and we've all seen what happens when competition disappears from the market place.
I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters.
If you want to improve something, you should provide solutions, not critics.
HTTPD have 66% of the market and that's great to see that an OpenSource solution is well behind M$.
Sun, Oracle and majors corps have stopped dreaming having 50% of market share some years ago.
At least we could say, Apache Software Foundation does it and maintain its leading position.
How ?
- By producing solutions like HTTPD which are stable, full featured and works on so many platforms.
Revolution is for new players, carefully crafted evolutions are for the mass.
