How about Beta when people start using it on a real time basis. i.e. It runs
for weeks at a time with no significant problem. Until then it's just a
number... makes life real easy...
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Stoddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: On 2.0 again.
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Bill Stoddard wrote:
>
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > FreeBSD's threads library is incredibly poor. It seems that whenever
we
> > > enable threads on FreeBSD sendfile stops working.
> >
> > Just a thought... Lets run 2.0 on www.apache.org with the process MPM
for
a
> > few more days to drive out the few seg faults we are still seeing. Once
it
> > is -really- stable, disable sendfile support on FreeBSD and compile and
run the
> > threaded MPM using MMAP. When we get the threaded MPM working
acceptably,
> > declare beta.
>
> It's more than just sendfile. When we compiled apache with -pthread, and
> using the prefork MPM, we had threads go off to no-where. I am not
> willing to say we can't go beta until apache.org is running a threaded
> MPM, because that may not be possible.
>
> Also, this isn't our model anymore, and this discussion should be on
> new-httpd, not members.
>
Ooops, new-httpd dropped out of my first reply to this thread. Apologies.
Humm, I believe I implicitly assume a release status of "beta" is basically
a
statement regarding "quality" of the server ("Quality" in the sense of "Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"). Is this not the model we are
following? My goal was to get a threaded server running to facilitate
driving
bugs out of that MPM; improving the quality of a major feature of Apache
2.0.
If "beta" status is not a statement of quality, then I don't understand why
we
go to the trouble of making the designation in the first place. Perhaps I
should write up a neat little random naming facility that makes up status
names. Next release can be alpha 1000, then maybe beta 75, then golden
followed by alpha centauri :-)
Bill
