I'm sure people here know most or all of this. The part that's new to me is this webstack-discuss list as the right place to post.
I'm now working for Sun on the webstack. I'm also a member of the Apache Software Foundation and the development teams for the webserver: both the HTTPD and APR projects. That means, among other things, I'm in a position to deal with upstream bugs affecting users of Apache on Solaris. That'll improve further when my Solaris workstation arrives later this month. In general, upstream bugs should be reported at Apache's bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ Bugs may either be specific to Solaris or platform-independent, and should be marked accordingly. Bugs may also (rarely) be marked as specific to a particular hardware platform. If you have a fix to an open bug, you can attach patches to any bug report. The best format to use is "diff -u" or "svn diff". Patches against SVN /trunk/ are preferred, but patches against the current (2.2.x) branch or latest release are also welcome. You can then mark the report with the bugzilla keyword "PatchAvailable". *** Anyone with existing bug reports, and particularly patches *** in Apache Bugzilla, please feel free to draw them to my ***attention. At best I can just deliver the fix; at worst I'll take *** a look at it and discuss any problems with you. You can view existing bug reports from the bugzilla search page at https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/query.cgi For example, to get a list of all open bugs in APR marked Solaris: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi? query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product =APR&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubst r&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED& bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDIN FO&op_sys=Solaris&op_sys=SunOS&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring& email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=subst ring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now &chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Importance&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=n oop&value0-0-0= (a similar query for HTTPD itself returns a longer list) Bear in mind that the bugzilla is completely open, and the reports range from genuine and serious issues to reports where the entire problem lies between the reporter's keyboard and chair! Fortunately this latter kind seems to be rare amongst Solaris users. Although I more usually focus on a particular component (e.g. module) rather than a platform, I sometimes use queries like this to work on fixing bug reports. If others do the same, we can kill off that list of Apache/Solaris bugs all the sooner! -- Nick Kew
