On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:45 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> On May 27, 2015 9:46 AM, "Jeff Trawick" <traw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > >>> on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 > >>> and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so > >>> it would be nice to focus energy on 2.4 and later... > >> > >> People here focus their energy on whatever they want. It takes a small > number of people to keep a stable branch going (technically 3, but in > practice a slightly higher number). Instead of the group choosing EOL or > only-security-fixes-of-some-minimal-severity or something else for a stable > branch based on what many people think is interesting to them for whatever > reason, I think that the project should limit its concern to ensuring that > the community understands the state of the branch and that it is EOL-ed > when a sufficient number of people don't care. > > > > actually, "when a sufficient number of people don't care" is what I'm > arguing against :) make that "when an insufficient number of people care" > > +1, well thought out, aligns with the historical commentary (just some of > which I pointed out in the historical data points post) > > >> What we need to know for the 2.2.x branch is basically this: > >> > >> Developers (committers or not): > >> > >> [ X ] I am willing to help resolve security issues in the 2.2.x branch. > >> [ X ] I am willing to help address non-security issues in the 2.2.x > branch. > >> > >> PMC members: > >> > >> [ X ] I am willing to test and vote on proposed 2.2.x releases. > > >> (This is not a call for vote; I'm suggesting a very different mindset > towards 2.2.x from "nice to focus energy on" and "time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on".) > > (: Glad that others felt free to respond to this as a poll. > :) The pseudo-poll was the clearest way I could think of to lay out my opinion of what I think our criteria should be, and I didn't want to come across as antagonistic anyway (random-emoticon) But the several responses are useful information. Cut and paste at will! I think there is a story in all of this for the greater community about our (?) particular take on an open source project, pros and cons for * individual developers * different classes of users * the httpd-of-Christmas-future, our strong desire avoid unplanned obsolescence, our willingness to empower even potentially small subsets of our developer community, etc. (Meanwhile, somebody pinged me about mod_fcgid recently; apparently there is some low-hanging fruit in Bugzilla and no any recent activity :( ) -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/
