I mostly sympathize with your sentiments. Incompatible changes should be documented. And design documents & directions for AOLServer belong in public on the AOLServer wiki, not hidden.
I.e., if when someone decided this was a good idea, there was an "experimental features" page for 4.5 that outlined the idea, that would at least form the basis for (a) docs, and (b) community discussion. If someone (like you or me) needed that backward compatibility, we could contribute it. At present, it still seems like the docs we see on the wiki are either generated from long-ago internal documentation, or not written at all. And as for roadmaps: "Your search - roadmap - did not match any documents." However, I would like to point out that one of the real problems with the AOLServer community for a while was its perceived inability to pick up innovations. Discouraging change from inside AOL is only going to make the problem worse. We should be encouraging experimentation -- but with community feedback. -- ReC -----Original Message----- From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:57 AM To: AOLSERVER@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] configured minthreads, maxthreads doesnt show up with [ns_server threads] command > Technically everything in the configuration file is a Tcl command > (ns_section, ns_param, etc.) so it's really not that much of a stretch. > But > I agree, it is different. Technically, the configuration file is a bucket of bits, but that's not a very useful observation. > Had we ever actually gotten around to deploying AOLserver 4.5 internally > here at AOL, I'm sure we would have at least done the work to provide some > backwards compatibility wrappers for things like this, but as yet we > haven't. Geezus. In this case, the code simply shouldn't've gone in. Or it should've been offered to the community in its incomplete form, with the offer to incorporate it in 4.5 if volunteers in the community completed it. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
