On Feb 14, 2007, at 3:28 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
It's always been small groups ;-) But we are loathe to drop the 'barrier to entry' of demonstrating that the new coder is 'cluefull'. This is a server platform, rife with the security issues that go along with that.
We need to remind ourselves of the long period of time between 1.3 and 2.0, and the relatively short one between 2.0 and 2.2. The reason? Easy-to-manage changes. 2.0 was a victim of "just one more thing"itis, which made it prolonged as well as more complex than it needed to be. Most of the things we want to fix are things that were done "quickly" to get the basically implementation in there. IMO, an Async baseline, event-based state model is, no doubt, the direction we need to be heading. Unless we do that right, the other stuff really won't be that worthwhile in the server we eventually come up with.
