Re: 2.6/3.0 yet again...

2018-02-09 Thread Stefan Eissing
+1 This sounds like a good way forward. > Am 09.02.2018 um 14:10 schrieb Jim Jagielski : > > > >> On Feb 9, 2018, at 12:04 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: >> >> Since you won't permit 2.6/3.0 to come into existence, we can presume this >> was

2.6/3.0 yet again...

2018-02-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Feb 9, 2018, at 12:04 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > Since you won't permit 2.6/3.0 to come into existence, we can presume this > was just a strawman? > That is a false statement. If enough people wanted 2.6/3.0 to come into existence, it would have. All I want

Re: 2.6/3.0

2016-12-12 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Dec 9, 2016, at 5:24 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > > Instead, maybe we could backport all that stuff to 2.4, in a backwards > compatible fashion. That is, basically backport trunk to 2.4. This > would give us more runway to work on httpd-nextgen. > > That is very unrealistic, given th

Re: 2.6/3.0

2016-12-10 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Dec 9, 2016 21:56, "Daniel Ruggeri" wrote: On 12/9/2016 8:32 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Instead, maybe we could backport all that stuff to 2.4, in a backwards > compatible fashion. That is, basically backport trunk to 2.4. This > would give us more runway to work on httpd-nextgen. > > Thought

Re: 2.6/3.0

2016-12-09 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 12/9/2016 8:32 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Instead, maybe we could backport all that stuff to 2.4, in a backwards > compatible fashion. That is, basically backport trunk to 2.4. This > would give us more runway to work on httpd-nextgen. > > Thoughts? Considering a lot of the changes in trunk, I

Re: 2.6/3.0

2016-12-09 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:32 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > It may be weird talking about httpd 2.6/3.0 when we are stuck > in a holding pattern for 2.4.24, but actually it's not a bad > idea. > > Right now, there are quite a few improvements in trunk that > should *really* be

2.6/3.0

2016-12-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
It may be weird talking about httpd 2.6/3.0 when we are stuck in a holding pattern for 2.4.24, but actually it's not a bad idea. Right now, there are quite a few improvements in trunk that should *really* be in a releasable version... Now we have some options on how to proceed, but my

Re: PMC Reporting [Was: Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0]

2015-06-01 Thread Eric Covener
There's usually just not much to it. Here's what was last submitted: Report from the Apache HTTP Server project [Eric Covener] ## Description: The Apache HTTP Server Project develops and maintains an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems. ## Activity: Overall project activi

Re: PMC Reporting [Was: Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0]

2015-06-01 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 5/30/2015 9:03 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > So I'll let Eric share what he submitted for May on our behalf, but here > is the submitted/accepted/recorded report of Feb '15 - it's awfully high > level, so I'm not sure that updating dev@ regularly with the contents > offers a whole lot of ben

PMC Reporting [Was: Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0]

2015-05-30 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: > P.S. > I'm not a Member or PMC... do I have access to the report that spurred > the conversation? > Adding the context back to the thread... On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > FWIW: It was this month's PMC status r

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Blackman
> On 27 May 2015, at 13:54, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 > and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so > it would be nice to focus energy on 2.4 and later... Depends on what EOL means p

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-30 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 5/30/2015 1:47 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote:> Thinking about this more, what are the things preventing people from an > _easy_ upgrade path configuration-wise? A lot of this conversation > surrounded users and the impact of an upgrade to them. The interface for > the users' to the server is the conf

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-30 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 5/28/2015 2:54 PM, Jim Riggs wrote: > Having to expend effort (e.g. re-design/update config and deployment) to switch/update/upgrade to a new paradigm does not, IMO, mean that it's not a solution for everyone. Anyone can take the time to implement and automate the switch. Once that effort has be

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Rich Bowen
On 05/28/2015 03:54 PM, Jim Riggs wrote: On 28 May 2015, at 14:30, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 28.05.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Rich Bowen: On 05/27/2015 05:38 PM, olli hauer wrote: - for long time there was no working mod_php module for 2.4, and changing to php-fpm was not for everyone a solutio

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 3:45 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > On May 27, 2015 9:46 AM, "Jeff Trawick" wrote: > > > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jeff Trawick > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >>> > >>> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focu

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Jim Riggs
> On 28 May 2015, at 14:30, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 28.05.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Rich Bowen: >> On 05/27/2015 05:38 PM, olli hauer wrote: >>> - for long time there was no working mod_php module for 2.4, and >>> changing to >>> php-fpm was not for everyone a solution. >> >> In my experience,

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On May 27, 2015 9:46 AM, "Jeff Trawick" wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >>> >>> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus >>> on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 >>> and mod_h2 wi

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread William A Rowe Jr
More data points and history to ponder, with placeholders to reflect the passage of time; 1998-06-06 Initial 1.3.0 Release 1999-03-24 Stable 1.3.6 Release (last major MMN bump) 2000 2001 2002-04-05 Initial 2.0.35 Release 2002-09-24 Stable 2.0.42 Release (last major MMN bump) 2003 2004 2005-12-01

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.05.2015 um 21:22 schrieb Rich Bowen: On 05/27/2015 05:38 PM, olli hauer wrote: - for long time there was no working mod_php module for 2.4, and changing to php-fpm was not for everyone a solution. In my experience, the only reason that php-fpm wasn't a solution for everyone is that

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Rich Bowen
On 05/27/2015 05:38 PM, olli hauer wrote: - for long time there was no working mod_php module for 2.4, and changing to php-fpm was not for everyone a solution. In my experience, the only reason that php-fpm wasn't a solution for everyone is that it was poorly documented. We could still st

RE: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Houser, Rick
Mageia: Mageia 3 released with Apahe 2.4 in April 2013 Apache 2.2 (via Mageia 2) reached EOL in November 2013

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Eric Covener
> > I propose we - where possible - add the missing bits that mod_h2 has to > hack around, and then propose those changes for backport to v2.4 in the > normal way. > > Given the amount of inertia minor versions of httpd have, it would be > ideal if mod_h2 could be used in the httpd v2.4 timeframe,

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Arash Safaei
l be a 2.4 version of mod_h2 as well as a more significant "merging" of mod_h2/trunk/2.6/3.0. > On May 28, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:42 +0200, Stefan Eissing wrote: >> Not wanting to boast, but maybe mod_h2 for httpd 2.4 can play a role

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Jim Jagielski
2.4 as well... So there will be >> a 2.4 version of mod_h2 as well as a more significant >> "merging" of mod_h2/trunk/2.6/3.0. > > I propose we - where possible - add the missing bits that mod_h2 has to hack > around, and then propose those changes for backport to v2.

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Stefan Eissing
e will be > a 2.4 version of mod_h2 as well as a more significant > "merging" of mod_h2/trunk/2.6/3.0. > >> On May 28, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Nick Kew wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 22:42 +0200, Stefan Eissing wrote: >>> Not wanting to boast, but

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Graham Leggett
ificant > "merging" of mod_h2/trunk/2.6/3.0. I propose we - where possible - add the missing bits that mod_h2 has to hack around, and then propose those changes for backport to v2.4 in the normal way. Given the amount of inertia minor versions of httpd have, it would be ideal if mod

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Jim Jagielski
My thoughts are that we use mod_h2 as a guide to how to "better" implement things in trunk, but also allow for mod_h2 to also work w/ 2.4 as well... So there will be a 2.4 version of mod_h2 as well as a more significant "merging" of mod_h2/trunk/2.6/3.0. > On May 28, 2015

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Nick Kew
tends to support the gut feeling that mod_h2 might be better targeting 2.6/3.0 than 2.4. We should be joining forces to address the issues you've encountered, from minor tweaks to core to more fundamental issues like bucket alloc across threads (or a suitable alternative). Time for me to downl

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:41 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > > Ubuntu - 14.04 LTS, and Debian 8 (Jessie) got the message, a year ago > April. > > RHEL / CentOS 7 aren't even a year old yet. > > OpenSUSE 13.1 beat them all to the punch, back in Nov of '13. So that's > the oldest distribution GA th

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > On 28/05/2015 03:17, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > [...] maybe it's time to say that 2.2's era is done, and > 2.4's time is here, if not already past. I'm simply trying > to encourage us to work on the future and not "focus" on > the past. No need

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Noel Butler
On 28/05/2015 07:38, olli hauer wrote: > - for long time there was no working mod_php module for 2.4, and changing to > php-fpm was not for everyone a solution. huh? I personally since dawn of the httpd/php love have always only ever used mod_php and at no time did I have a a non usable ser

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Noel Butler
On 28/05/2015 03:17, Jim Jagielski wrote: > No need to go off... 2.2 has been out for almost 10 years. > 2.4 for a bit over 3. That is a LONG time. I'm simply > *suggesting* (no BDFL posturing Mr. Rowe) that after 10 > years, maybe it's time to say that 2.2's era is done, and > 2.4's time is h

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread olli hauer
On 2015-05-27 17:34, William A Rowe Jr wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus >> on 2.4 and the next gen? > > > Nope, we'll let the internet speak for itself - > > http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/ws-a

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Steffen
Here at AL quite a lot sticking with 2.2 because third-party modules which are not available with 2.4. Like mod-perl etc. > Op 27 mei 2015 om 22:42 heeft Stefan Eissing > het volgende geschreven: > > Not wanting to boast, but maybe mod_h2 for httpd 2.4 can play a role in > motivating peopl

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Stefan Eissing
Not wanting to boast, but maybe mod_h2 for httpd 2.4 can play a role in motivating people to migrate away from 2.2. I have not looked into having it work on 2.2 and no interest in doing so. If we get the ALPN support into 2.4.13, mod_h2 can be just "dropped in" to such a server. And distros wi

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Tim Bannister wrote: > On 27 May 2015, at 18:26, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > > > one thing it means is having compelling stories involving the latest hot > tech that use 2.4 > > > > basically, any time there is a how-to-FOO somewhere on the www that uses > nginx for

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Tim Bannister
On 27 May 2015, at 18:26, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > one thing it means is having compelling stories involving the latest hot tech > that use 2.4 > > basically, any time there is a how-to-FOO somewhere on the www that uses > nginx for the web server component, there needs to be a better how-to-FO

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Your thought seems to be that we "EOL" 2.2 when the number of 2.2 deployments < the number of 2.4 ones. My thought is that we "EOL" 2.2 in order to *hasten* that event, just like just about every other open-source and non-open source software project out there.

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
> > one thing it means is having compelling stories involving the latest hot tech > that use 2.4 > > basically, any time there is a how-to-FOO somewhere on the www that uses > nginx for the web server component, there needs to be a better how-to-FOO > that uses httpd 2.4 ;) (I don't even thin

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > No need to go off... Did I? > 2.2 has been out for almost 10 years. > Irrelevant to the discussion... > 2.4 for a bit over 3. That is a LONG time. Specifically, http://svn.apache.org/r1243503 Generally unusable, the next several v

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > crazy and not-so-crazy ideas will speed the movement to 2.4 irrespective > of distro schedules (not sure how much :) ) > > > > Here one: Since containers are the new hotness, how about being > more Docker/Rocket/whatever friendly (what

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Tim Bannister
Now that even stability-loving Debian is providing 2.4.x with full security support, moving on from 2.2 seems to make sense. -- Tim Bannister – is...@c8h10n4o2.org.uk

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
> > crazy and not-so-crazy ideas will speed the movement to 2.4 irrespective of > distro schedules (not sure how much :) ) > Here one: Since containers are the new hotness, how about being more Docker/Rocket/whatever friendly (whatever that means)? :) Hope making this suggestion is OK and that

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
No need to go off... 2.2 has been out for almost 10 years. 2.4 for a bit over 3. That is a LONG time. I'm simply *suggesting* (no BDFL posturing Mr. Rowe) that after 10 years, maybe it's time to say that 2.2's era is done, and 2.4's time is here, if not already past. I'm simply trying to encourage

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > My point is that if we EOL 2.2 (with some definition of "EOL") > then people on 2.2 (or earlier) will have some *real* incentive > to move off of 2.2 towards 2.4 (or later)... > > Basically, we need something to "kick" people off 2.2 > and

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > Focus your energy on anything you like. > > > > Can't grok whether that's snarky or not... I'll assume not :) > Please assume not :) ASF projects should still remain scratch-your-own-itch(es). Your message certainly had an 'adopt m

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
> > Developers (committers or not): > > [Y] I am willing to help resolve security issues in the 2.2.x branch. > [N] I am willing to help address non-security issues in the 2.2.x branch. > > PMC members: > > [Y] I am willing to test and vote on proposed 2.2.x releases. Only security ones. >

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
My point is that if we EOL 2.2 (with some definition of "EOL") then people on 2.2 (or earlier) will have some *real* incentive to move off of 2.2 towards 2.4 (or later)... Basically, we need something to "kick" people off 2.2 and get them to 2.4. By stating that 2.2 will ONLY get security related

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
> > Focus your energy on anything you like. > Can't grok whether that's snarky or not... I'll assume not :)

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on 2.4 and the next gen? Nope, we'll let the internet speak for itself - http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_details/ws-apache/2 We are nowhere near close enough to the inflection po

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Yann Ylavic
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus >> on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 >> and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so >> it would be nice

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Ivan Zhakov
On 27 May 2015 at 17:42, Jeff Trawick wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus >> on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 >> and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so >> it would be nice to focus

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Mike Rumph
The 2.2.x branch is still of interest to the product I work on. So I am willing to devote effort towards its maintenance. Thanks, Mike On 5/27/2015 7:46 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: What we need to know for the 2.2.x branch is basically this: Developers (committers or not): [Y] I am willin

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus >> on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 >> and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so >> it would be nice

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 > and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so > it would be nice to focus energy on 2.4 and later... > People here focus their

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Eric Covener
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:55 AM Jim Jagielski wrote: > Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 > and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so > it would be nice to focus energy on 2.4 and later... > I think it's an accurate

Re: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Yann Ylavic
No issue for me. How many time would bug/security fixes would still be backported (from when we decide so)? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus > on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 > and mod_h2 will drive the

2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-27 Thread Jim Jagielski
Anyone else think it's time to EOL 2.2 and focus on 2.4 and the next gen? My thoughts are that http/2 and mod_h2 will drive the trunk design efforts and so it would be nice to focus energy on 2.4 and later...