On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 9:17 AM Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > Hi All! > > Come '25 I'll have some cycles to get back into some serious httpd work, and > am looking to find out what our next steps are. I've followed along the lists > but have really not been active. Do we have a plan forward, past httpd-2.4? > I'd like to see what areas I could look into to help us drive forward. Some > things that I want to do is reboot my work on various proxy enhancements, > including auto discovery and balancer metrics. > > Some considerations and potential topics of discussion: > > 1. On trunk, baseline something newer than c89 > 2. Update the autoconf suite > 3. future roadmap > > Basically the question is: Is httpd basically in maintenance mode or do we > want to try to get some momentum going?
Other than the obvious shortage of contributors, I think one big dilemma is that a post-2.4 needs to thread such a tiny needle where it's both similar enough for people to be able to move to it (skills, compat, migration wise), but different enough to justify the extra effort on both sides. There's also the baggage of httpd and C. While individually this might be a strength to you and I (and any other long-time contributors), I don't think it is for prospective contributors, possible sponsors/partners, or users. I only follow developments in other servers at a very cursory level, but is there something we can do on top of pingora (the rust cloudflare library-ish thing) that makes it easier for people who like httpd to adopt for example?
