Brandorr wrote: > I polled my local RoR UG and the lack of webserver choice regarding > your proposed components was the main comment/complaint. >
First of all, thanks much for polling the UG! That's great feedback. Was there any consensus on which web server was most in use with this RoR crowd? > Depending upon what the costs are to do it up front, I feel that it > may be worth pushing back the stack delivery by a few weeks rather > than postponing 6 months+. (6 months is a really long time these > days). Since the Nevada project has a release train that's pretty much scheduled[1], it's not so much a question of releasing a few weeks later. If we want to be on the train that leaves and is turned into the next SXDE, it'd be best to get things integrated prior to build 78, so that's the target of most of the current effort and components. Other stuff will definitely come in later builds, and will turn into future builds of SXDE-- generally on a 4-6 month schedule. The tradeoff here is that there may need to be effort expended elsewhere to bring components up to date with the upstream if there are new releases or security fixes required (which takes effort), or we may need to add additional optional modules (see the PHP stuff in the list archives) to be compatible with common apps and get to functional parity with existing Cool Stack). Having said all of that, I agree that if we're going to add other web servers (which hasn't been determined yet), it'd be best to not wait 6 months. I also agree, 6 months is a long time, which is why I figured it would be best to have directions/blogs on how to build lighttpd/nginx if one wanted to. Then again, that's all just my opinion, and we've not really laid specific plans for after build 79. Thanks for the feedback though, and it's good to start thinking about it. - Matt [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/onnv_schedule.txt -- Matt Ingenthron - Web Infrastructure Solutions Architect Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Global Systems Practice http://blogs.sun.com/mingenthron/ email: matt.ingenthron at sun.com Phone: 310-242-6439
