Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:47:13PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: credit where it is deserved. I do *not* think we owe the user community a project plan and schedule of deliverables. I think we owe it to the other developers to have a project plan and a

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-09 Thread Brian Pane
Jim Jagielski wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:47:13PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: credit where it is deserved. I do *not* think we owe the user community a project plan and schedule of deliverables. I think we owe it to the other developers to have a

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-09 Thread Jim Jagielski
Brian Pane wrote: Thus I view the finalization of the APIs and design changes (based on what we've communicated in STATUS) as the most important next step, followed by getting the 2.0 GA released. I agree. Modules won't be ported en mass to 2.0 until module writers and maintainers have

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Stoddard
I've set on this for a week and decided I wasn't happy with it being the last word on the topic. Jeff Stuart wrote: Roy, however, I do think that there is an implied responsibility for apache since so much of the Internet USES it. Gaining market share has never been one of our goals.

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bill Stoddard wrote: And FWIW, I personally feel some responsbility to the Apache user community. So do I, of a sort; I feel gratitude for the feedback and suggestions toward improvement of the package. For me, though, it does *not* extend to a feeling of commitment to deliver anything

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:47:13PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: credit where it is deserved. I do *not* think we owe the user community a project plan and schedule of deliverables. I think we owe it to the other developers to have a project plan and a schedule of deliverables. --

RE: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:47:13PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: credit where it is deserved. I do *not* think we owe the user community a project plan and schedule of deliverables. I think we owe it to the other developers to have a project plan and a schedule of deliverables.

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I think we owe it to the other developers to have a project plan and a schedule of deliverables. -- justin That's an entirely different thing than owing it to the user community. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author,

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:26:58AM -0800, Ryan Bloom wrote: I do that at my day job. I do the Open Source work to get away from the annoying parts of programming that my day job delivers. Please don't force that stuff on me during my relaxing time. If you are interested in making a release,

RE: OT: whither are we going?

2002-03-08 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:26:58AM -0800, Ryan Bloom wrote: I do that at my day job. I do the Open Source work to get away from the annoying parts of programming that my day job delivers. Please don't force that stuff on me during my relaxing time. If you are interested in making a

RE: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
happen without leadership). Peter J. Cranstone -Original Message- From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: whither are we going? As far as having no responsibility to the people/companies

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:12:27PM -0500, Jeff Stuart wrote: face to everyone who uses/depends on Apache. Of all the programs I use/depends (Apache, PHP, Perl, Mysql, mod_perl, Gnome) only here have I seen that attitude that the USERS of a program do not matter. What I think Roy means is

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Chuck Murcko
If I were bringing up musicblvd.com on httpd 2.0 instead of httpd 0.6.4 or whatever I used, I would be worried a little if httpd 1.0 had taken 5 years to actually come out instead of less than a year. The core for httpd 1.0 was done by 0.8 IIRC. Roy's right, literally, but at some point it

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Jeff Trawick
Jeff Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [text omitted] We just had another beta (2.0.32). We have a status file that indicates what we feel needs to be fixed before GA. We are actively pursuing bug reports from people who downloaded 2.0.32 and encountered problems. We are doing what it takes

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Jeff Stuart
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:29, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:12:27PM -0500, Jeff Stuart wrote: face to everyone who uses/depends on Apache. Of all the programs I use/depends (Apache, PHP, Perl, Mysql, mod_perl, Gnome) only here have I seen that attitude that the USERS

RE: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Ryan Bloom
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:29, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:12:27PM -0500, Jeff Stuart wrote: face to everyone who uses/depends on Apache. Of all the programs I use/depends (Apache, PHP, Perl, Mysql, mod_perl, Gnome) only here have I seen that attitude that the

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-27 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Jeff Stuart wrote: Roy, however, I do think that there is an implied responsibility for apache since so much of the Internet USES it. Gaining market share has never been one of our goals. Producing quality software has. That so many people have decided to benefit from our work does not,

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-26 Thread Jeff Stuart
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:26, Dale Ghent wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ryan Bloom wrote: | If you read the statement in context, it shouldn't be alarming. It was | in response to a statement that we shouldn't be re-writing any code, | because it destabilizes the current code. I patently

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-26 Thread Roy T. Fielding
As far as having no responsibility to the people/companies that USE Apache, I put forth this argument. When a company bases it's business or a person bases their career on a program, in MY OPINION, there then springs into a being an implied responsibility on the development team to support

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-26 Thread Ben Hyde
Roy T. Fielding wrote: ... It is completely insane to think that a volunteer group of developers is going to be responsible to all 60 million or so users just because they happen to like the free product. hear hear If you aren't contributing, you aren't part of the Apache community.

Re: OT: whither are we going?

2002-02-26 Thread Ian Holsman
Jeff Stuart wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:26, Dale Ghent wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ryan Bloom wrote: | If you read the statement in context, it shouldn't be alarming. It was | in response to a statement that we shouldn't be re-writing any code, | because it destabilizes the current code.