On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Actually; no - the Board gave the APR crowd a well defined charter (or > rather, the APR folks came with a very well defined set of things they > wanted to work on - and hence got their PMC in the ASF umbrella). > > Changing that charter will require this community to do some very deep > thinking :-) and possibly you'll have to put things in perspective or > reconsider to prevent bloat, feature creep, version # aligement problems > with your dependencies and general quality. > > Right now your charter keeps you out of such troubled waters: > > The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is to provide a > free library of C data structures and routines, forming a system > portability layer to as many operating systems as possible, > including Unices, MSWin32, BeOS and OS/2. > > rather nicely.
Hmm.. how do we justify apr-util, and even moreso, how did serf get approved (especially if it is HTTP-centric)? To me it seems that el-kabong is a natural sibling of apr-util -- both are a set of portable utilities which are dependent on our portability layer, and applicable to a wide variety of projects. I won't stop it from being part of HTTPD, but I do want to start thinking about our projects in terms of functionality rather than language or protocol. -aaron
