On 05/10/2016 10:38 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > It's been a year, and seems to be a good time to revisit this topic > while those folks who are present at ApacheCon can discuss f2f > the merits of bringing the 2.2.x chapter to a close, and share their > thoughts back here on-list. > > According to http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/ws-apache/2 > the inflection point of a majority of 2.4 instances over 2.2 appears > to occur about 9 months from now. > > OpenSUSE 13.1 adopted 2.4 way back in Nov of '13. > > Ubuntu - 14.04 LTS, and Debian 8 (Jessie) switched to 2.4 in April '14. > > RHEL / CentOS 7 are well over a year old, adopted 2.4 in June '14. > Fedora 18 shipped 2.4 way back in Jan '13. > > E.g. every user of the broadly distributed Linux releases will have had > three full years to adopt 2.4 by June of 2017. I expect the BSD world > looks similar (modulo any Apache License 2.0 stupidity we are all > too familiar with.) If someone in the BSD, Solaris and other spheres > wants to chime in here with those milestones, that would be great. > > I am prepared to RM a final bug-fix release of 2.2 in conjunction with > the next 2.4 release effort, to gather in any final requests for fixes > before we move to a 12-month, security-fixes-only window on that branch. > Once those 12 months expire, as we've done with 1.3 and 2.0, there's > the possibility that relatively few committers would collect some critical > patches/apply-to-2.2.xx final security fixes, but no further releases would > occur. > > Are we ready to start the 12 month countdown as of the next/final bug > fix release of 2.2, and highlight this in both the 2.2 and 2.4 announce > broadcasts? > > I'm hoping we conclude some fixes of 2.4 scoreboard regressions and > get to the point of releasing 2.4 with mod_proxy_http2 sometime within > the next month or so, and that we can reach a consensus about how > we will proceed on the 2.2 branch, before we get to that release. > > Feedback desired,
Sounds like a sensible plan. Regards Rüdiger
