Thanks for your response, Jeff. You present some excellent points and defenses and present worthy opinions. I agree that there are lots of thankless, non-sexy tasks that would help, but the core developers need more manpower. I am hoping to create new avenues for participation.
My goal is to get Apache 1.3 reopened. To that end, you responded: > I don't expect any of the current Apache developers would be interested in > this. But plenty of people join the development community over time (see > previous comments) and theoretically the opinions could change. Well, I am interested. And some others on this list are interested. What must we do to have the opportunity to scratch this itch? I suggested releasing 1.4 and opening 1.5 dev, along with better patch management, to which you also agree a better job need be done. I do not think that the _current_ Apache is and _will forever be_ the right tool for a web server. The size of the bug database and feature requests should be sufficient evidence to support this point. I also believe that there needs to be an even easier migration path from 1.3 to 2.x, despite how good it is already. So what will it take to convince the core developers to reopen 1.3? I'm less interested in opinions and more interested in getting something done. Thanks! Glenn
