Greetings, On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Gour <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's nice to see that Alvaro got a new job in Canonical, but, > considering there is practically only nginx (with its strange syntax of > conf file) alternative (lighty is really not in rapid development), it > would be nice to have Cherokee alive. > I was trying to avoid this awkward moment, but I guess it's better to clarify all this now. As Gour points out, I joined Canonical a few months ago. Since then, I stopped having so much time for working on Cherokee. My day-to-day job is still 100% focused on F/OSS Web technology, but I don't get to spend ten hours a day on Cherokee as I used to do. Still, I managed to re-implement the event management mechanism in Cherokee (which fixed a few long standing SSL bugs), and to start the work on a SPDY branch. While I was working on the SPDY branch, I realized of how difficult it'd be to adapt the current server core to support SPDY. There are a few design decisions that were made without taking into account that a Session protocol like SPDY could be added to the mix someday, and thus I hit many problems implementing it. Then, as many of you've noticed already, the Cherokee repository got almost frozen. Just a few patches were merged and there was almost no activity whatsoever. My idea wasn't to announce this so soon, but I guess circumstances are kind of pushing me to go public with it now: I have been working on a new server core for the past few months. One with proper SPDY and HTTP support. That's the ultimate reason for the lack of activity in the main repository. The new core is progressing slowly but surely, although it's still months away from being ready for production. It will bring a lot both technical and community improvements worth waiting for though. Believe me, the redesign and reimplementation of the server core a gigantic effort. It will take some time to have something usable. However, the experience of a decade of work on HTTP/Web technology will pay off on the new core. BTW, I'd like to thank everybody for your interest in the project. It's encouraging that we got this far against the odds... and, I'll tell you something. It's far from over. :-) -- Regards, alo
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