Hi, Zexuan.
I fully agree with dropping this support. Continuing to support it does
us little good and makes it more difficult to maintain. Also, according
to you, we don't have contributors who are familiar enough with
Tengine. So I think it's time to give up on it.

Best regards!
Zeping Bai  @bzp2010



Zexuan Luo <spacewan...@apache.org> 于2021年12月20日周一 21:13写道:

> As OpenResty is going to release 1.21.4, it is time to consider
> dropping the support of Tengine.
>
> Although Tengine is still maintained (a bugfix is just merged this
> month), IMHO there will be some benefits if we can drop the support of
> Tengine:
> 1. The latest Tengine is still based on Nginx 1.18.0, which is
> released years ago.
> 2. The Tengine support of APISIX is contributed by a contributor who
> is no longer active. The maintainers don't have much experience to
> work with Tengine.
> 3. Some feature of Tengine, like Dubbo proxy, is already supported in
> apisix-base.
> 4. Some feature of APISIX requires apisix-base, which is not supported
> by Tengine.
>
> By dropping the support of Tengine, we can remove extra CI job and
> version check, make the code simpler. In the future, we may only
> support OpenResty 1.19+.
>
> What about your opinion?
>

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