On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 09:16:43AM -0500, Jim Jagielski 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.
Nice! I've been quite short on time the last few months with various work distractions as well. From my side, I'd like to see a 2.5.x release series to prepare for 2.6, there are various trunk improvements which are hard/impossible to backport to 2.4.x and it would be good to get them out there. > Some considerations and potential topics of discussion: > > 1. On trunk, baseline something newer than c89 > 2. Update the autoconf suite > 3. future roadmap Moving to C11 could be interesting, also requiring a OpenSSL 3+ baseline? Regards, Joe
