William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
How many are we talking about (in the significant category)? The easiest way probably depends on how many people, how easy they are to contact, etc.
Ryan, do you have a rough sense of this? From my own review of the ChangeLog, it looks like there are roughly about 10-12 major contributions by others (two of whom are httpd committers). There are lots of additional people listed, but these seem to divide up between minor patch contributions, thanks for bug reports or for testing a bug fix, or thanks for suggesting a possible new feature. Clearly, though, we'll need Ryan to look through and identify the major contributors.
I'd prefer that we simply sponsor this effort under the httpd PMC here at our project. We have to file an IP code clearance through the Incubator, but that's relatively simple (and a good part is finished already now that the appropriate paperwork is filed with the secretary). Does anyone feel that the addition of mod_fcgid should be driven through the incubator? Speaking first hand, it didn't resolve the shortcomings of lack of community behind mod_aspdotnet, and didn't really give mod_ftp the visibility it needed (and attracted once it graduated). So for most existing modules, I don't think it solves many of the problems we might or might not face here at httpd.
I really don't know all the options here, but from what you describe, it sounds like a faster track to get the IP code clearance done would be ideal, if possible. So, a +1 from me if this is feasible. Thanks, Chris. -- GPG Key ID: 366A375B GPG Key Fingerprint: 485E 5041 17E1 E2BB C263 E4DE C8E3 FA36 366A 375B
