Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-14 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:51:46PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > >Creating roles like this is just as bad as having chunks of httpd "owned" > >by one particular developer. (See below) > > I don't think you understand the role of 'patch manager.' On the projects > I'm involved with, that pers

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-14 Thread Graham Leggett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'other' not-so-dedicated-but-certainly-interested developers felt 'shut out' of the 2.0 development cycle because it was obvious a lot of it was taking place 'off line' and nothing was being documented so they couldn't really get a good handle on what was going on in

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 12:36 AM 11/14/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >'Individual' attempts to contribute are getting IGNORED >and the last few words of this message thread's subject >line are just asking to hear from the powers that be >what they intend to do about that ( solutions please ? ). Yes, I think that's t

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Although it's probably a little late to be responding to innuendo, the bare minimum points that need a response; At 12:36 AM 11/14/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There was a lot going down 'offline' and things were just >being 'announced' on the forum. That's the way development often happens.

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-14 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:51 PM -0500 Jim Jagielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused then... I had thought that there were API differences (within httpd and apr) between the 2 trees in able to support some of the new features. I suspect that the biggest pain for a 2.0->2.2 migrati

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread TOKILEY
Hi Bill... This is Kevin... > William Rowe wrote... > > We value individual contributions here, not > corporate affiliation. "We" means ASF, right? If so... then I think you just nailed the whole point of this thread, if I am reading the original poster's concerns correctly. There doesn't CURRE

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 12:47 PM 11/13/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you look at what has REALLY happened in the past >3 years ( yes... going back that far since it's now 4 or >5 years since 2.0 became a real blib on the radar ) there's >no question that there was this intense period of >development and 'new' th

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread TOKILEY
In a message dated 11/13/2003 12:53:42 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: By the by... Covalent signs my paycheck. And if you look at 1.3, you'll see that I've been pretty key on staying on top of it. Kind of blows away your theory, don't it? Nope

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
>-Original Message- >From: Matthieu Estrade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SNIP] >But when you give feedback, review code, and post patch and nothing >happen then... It's not easy to continue this way =) >Maybe my feedback and mails aren't good, so in this case i understand >more... but wit

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Matthieu Estrade
this is used and what will happen then... Thanks -Madhu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread MATHIHALLI,MADHUSUDAN (HP-Cupertino,ex1)
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please Hi all... I just have to jump in here since the topic is fascin

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I will call it... "The Covalent Factor". > > If you look at what has REALLY happened in the past > 3 years ( yes... going back that far since it's now 4 or > 5 years since 2.0 became a real blib on the radar ) there's > no question that there was this intense period o

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > Well, 2.2 modules for the most part should be source-compatible with > 2.0. Certain subsystems have changed dramatically (auth being the prime > example I can think of), but I wouldn't expect every module to have to > change to support 2.2. (This is, again, taking my

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Another point to consider... With 2.2, module writers will need to > worry about *3* versions of Apache. Commercial entities which > have *just* gotten around to porting their 1.3 modules for 2.0 > will likely not bother with 2.2 modu

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread TOKILEY
Hi all... I just have to jump in here since the topic is fascinating... ...and I think there's an opportunity here to review something that has contributed to the 'slow down' at httpd-dev which no one has seemed to grasp (yet). I will call it... "The Covalent Factor". If you look at what has RE

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 12, 2003, at 8:51 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I think our changes that we already have in the tree is about 'right' for 2.2 (no big architecture changes, but lots of modules have been rewritten and improved). It's just that no one has time or desire to shepherd 2.2 to a release. And, I

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
: Ben Hyde [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please I've quite a few ideas and opinions about why things might be quiet these days. I'd recommend agains

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Ben Hyde
I've quite a few ideas and opinions about why things might be quiet these days. I'd recommend against taking any of these ideas too seriously. Here is an idea: we have gotten out in front of the users. Products have features and overtime they get more and more features. Users have some abil

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-13 Thread Stas Bekman
Mads Toftum wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:10:24PM -0800, Aaron Bannert wrote: My main requirement is that the bug tracking system be fully-accessible through email. Having a full web interface is great, but not at the expense of usable offline replies to bug reports. RT could be what you're lo

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Albert Chin
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:17:01AM +0100, Erik Abele wrote: > Hmm, don't know, but I don't think so... > Is bugzilla able to be fully controlled through email? GCC switched from GNATS to Bugzilla. I think Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> managed the transition and did some work on an email <-> Bu

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 16:38:11 -0800 Aaron Bannert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe Sander's suggested that we start a patch manager role (discussion at AC Hackathon!). A few other projects I'm involved with do this. It'd be goodness, I think. But, the problem is finding a vo

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:17:01AM +0100, Erik Abele wrote: > >My main requirement is that the bug tracking system be fully-accessible > >through email. Having a full web interface is great, but not at the > >expense of usable offline replies to bug reports. > > Okay, I can understand that. > > >

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:10:24PM -0800, Aaron Bannert wrote: > > My main requirement is that the bug tracking system be fully-accessible > through email. Having a full web interface is great, but not at the > expense of usable offline replies to bug reports. > RT could be what you're looking fo

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Abele
On 13.11.2003, at 02:10, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:04:31AM +0100, Erik Abele wrote: I'd be very in favour of exploring other forms of bug-tracking. For example we'll have a full replication of BugZilla in Jira (/me hides) in the near future here on ASF hardware (see http://na

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:04:31AM +0100, Erik Abele wrote: > I'd be very in favour of exploring other forms of bug-tracking. For > example > we'll have a full replication of BugZilla in Jira (/me hides) in the > near future > here on ASF hardware (see http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/ for a previ

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Erik Abele
On 13.11.2003, at 01:29, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:14:35PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: == 1) Bugs searching for NEW and REOPENED bugs in httpd-2.0 returns: 420 entries http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:50:46PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Monday, November 10, 2003 17:14:35 -0800 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I believe Sander's suggested that we start a patch manager role (discussion > at AC Hackathon!). A few other projects I'm involved with do

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:14:35PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > == > 1) Bugs > > searching for NEW and REOPENED bugs in httpd-2.0 returns: 420 entries > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPEN

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-12 Thread Daniel Lorch
hi, 2d). CRT seemed to come as a replacement for design discussions. It's very easy to observe from the traffic numbers: Please excuse the total ignorance of passive Apache-Dev readers, but these abbreviations were new to me. I've found then im the Apache Glossary, though, and provide them to all

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
ginal Message- From: Colm MacCarthaigh,,, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colm MacCarthaigh Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:02:36AM -0700, Peter J. Cr

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
. Peter -Original Message- From: Henri Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please Peter J. Cranstone a écrit : > There is no flame - just a couple of p

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:14:35PM -0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > 3). Contributions > > I don't have numbers to support my clause, but I have a strong feeling > that nowadays we see a much smaller number of posts with contributions > from non-developers More facetious than anything else, I'm going t

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:02:36AM -0700, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: > So, anyone got any hard data that shows Apache 2.x serving pages "factors" > faster than 1.x? Yes, plenty :) ftp.heanet.ie serves about 1 million requests, well over a terabyte of data per day and maintains an average of about 2

Re[2]: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Astrid Keßler
> Read "The Cathedral & The Bazaar" from ESR [2]. It provides a good > insight into the social structures of the "community": motivations, > incentives, .. It's not always the money, you know ;) Market share? > Who cares! Customers? Who cares! I want my name to be a three letter > acronym everyone

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Henri Gomez
Peter J. Cranstone a écrit : There is no flame - just a couple of points and a request for data. If you want to improve something, you should provide solutions, not critics Certainly - early next year you will see them. Here are some current performance stats with some new technology we're work

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Henri Gomez
Daniel Lorch a écrit : hi, I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters. I don't think it was Peter's intention to flame anyone. The ASF has done a great job to deliver a fantastic, widely-deployed webserver. Consindering though that Apache 2 is mostly a refactored 1.3.x,

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread André Malo
* Daniel Lorch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I can get my name into the headlines [1] when writing Java-Stuff, > hell, then I'll do it. > > Read "The Cathedral & The Bazaar" from ESR [2]. It provides a good > insight into the social structures of the "community": motivations, > incentives, .. I

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
to wait long for that. Long live the revolution Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: Henri Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please Peter J. Cranst

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Lorch
hi, I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters. I don't think it was Peter's intention to flame anyone. The ASF has done a great job to deliver a fantastic, widely-deployed webserver. Consindering though that Apache 2 is mostly a refactored 1.3.x, which doesn't provide anyt

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Henri Gomez
Peter J. Cranstone a écrit : It's not anymore "cool" to work on Apache. You nailed it - because no one knows where it's going. Where's the focus, what does Apache really want to be, whose leading the charge? I've been following this forum a long, long time and the change in the last 2 years has

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
the market you're a monopoly (close) and we've all seen what happens when competition disappears from the market place. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: Daniel Lorch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Daniel Lorch
hi, > 2d). CRT seemed to come as a replacement for design discussions. It's > very easy to observe from the traffic numbers: Please excuse the total ignorance of passive Apache-Dev readers, but these abbreviations were new to me. I've found then im the Apache Glossary, though, and provide them to

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Jeff Trawick
Stas Bekman wrote: 1) Bugs searching for NEW and REOPENED bugs in httpd-2.0 returns: 420 entries http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2.0 yes, far too many :( Suggestion: make bugzilla CC bug-reports to the dev list. Most develope

RE: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
shows Apache 2.x serving pages "factors" faster than 1.x? Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 07:14 PM 11/10/2003, Stas Bekman wrote: >I have several reasons to believe that the wheel of httpd-dev life is >slowing down and something has to be done to get this wheel up to the >speed like in the good old days. The following observation are listed >in no particular order. I've also tried to

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 07:14 PM 11/10/2003, Stas Bekman wrote: >I have several reasons to believe that the wheel of httpd-dev life is >slowing down and something has to be done to get this wheel up to the >speed like in the good old days. The following observation are listed >in no particular order. I've also tried to

Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-10 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Monday, November 10, 2003 17:14:35 -0800 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Suggestion: make bugzilla CC bug-reports to the dev list. Most developers won't just go and check the bugs database to see if there Why can't they subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think throwing all of th

the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please

2003-11-10 Thread Stas Bekman
I have several reasons to believe that the wheel of httpd-dev life is slowing down and something has to be done to get this wheel up to the speed like in the good old days. The following observation are listed in no particular order. I've also tried to offer suggestions how to resolve problems. ===