This message is meant to serve as a reminder to everybody and as a STATUS message. I will be updating STATUS immediately after sending this message.
The current plan is to release the first Apache beta on Friday December 22. That also means that APR is basically hitting beta status, at least it has in the past. The APR developers will need to decide if we want to divorce APR releases from Apache. This will be decided separately from new-httpd. In order to do that, we need to actually roll the release on Wednesday, and we all need to test it. We have been releasing alpha's on the day they roll, IMHO that is not a valid way to roll a beta. Currently, I am planning to roll the beta release on Wednesday, and make it available for testing. That will coincide with a Friday release date, hopefully. This requires a few things first. Each of these will go into the STATUS file. 1) The installed layout needs to be fixed. This means that the header files need to be installed in the correct location. Expect a message in a few minutes with my opinion for how this should look. 2) The instructions for rolling a release need to be updated for 2.0. Expect this to happen in the next few days. I will take care of doing this. 3) binbuild.sh may need to be updated. I haven't looked into this, but I would be surprised if it works. 4) Source code layout needs to be decided for apr and apr-util. There has been some discussion about adding a src/ directory to apr or removing it from apr-util/. Either way, this needs to be decided. 5) Apache.org needs to start running Apache 2.0 if at all possible. Would other people please look through the release show-stoppers, and either remove them if they are solved, or decide if they are really show-stoppers. If they aren't, then lets get rid of them. If they are, then lets fix them. I am not convinced that all of those showstoppers need to be solved before we release the beta. Some of them are issues for configuration, we are trying to figure out the best way to configure Apache 2.0, but nobody has ever really tried setting this stuff up. Until somebody does that, stating that we need a certain configuration option is a bit pre-mature IMHO. Ryan _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 406 29th St. San Francisco, CA 94131 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
