On 08/11/2018 19:11, Stefan Eissing wrote:
> 2. I think regular releases are good for the people here and motivate people
> from outside to contribute.
For people here.. what about the people not here, you know them,
99.99999999999999999% of them, the system admins responsible for all
those servers out there, they do not appreciate having to update shit
every 2 weeks.
1/ they have better things to do
2/ it gives impression of immature and buggy software - this gives
thoughts towards alternatives, IRC shows many admins have no loyalty
todays much of todays software (well, windows fanbois excepted)
3/ As a consequence of 1 & 2, they will not upgrade, this might be
trivial for little thigs, but when a nasty bug comes out, this is what
comes to mind" oh fsck it, we just upgraded httpd last week, screw it,
we'll wait" - they get bitten, CIOs demand heads, remaining souls dump
httpd and install nginx or some other alternative
4/ dont be fooled into thinking its the package managers role, many
networks run on RedHat EL, SuseEL, and debian, but far from all - and
even those distro package maintainers get sick to F'n death of it after
a while and skip updates.
Do not be delusional - this has happened many times before.
I give you dovecot as example, it wasnt that long ago a new release was
coming out weekly, sometimes only a few days apart, people get sick of
updating, some people are still today running versions a year old
because of it, I know of a few who moved to "courier", an oldy but a
goody.
The release often mentality might be good for a new nurturing project,
but that is not httpd.
System admins want stability.
flame away.....
--
Kind Regards,
Noel Butler
This Email, including any attachments, may contain legally
privileged
information, therefore remains confidential and subject to copyright
protected under international law. You may not disseminate, discuss, or
reveal, any part, to anyone, without the authors express written
authority to do so. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify
the sender then delete all copies of this message including attachments,
immediately. Confidentiality, copyright, and legal privilege are not
waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery of this message. Only
PDF [1] and ODF [2] documents accepted, please do not send proprietary
formatted documents
Links:
------
[1] http://www.adobe.com/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
