On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: > > *** We need to get back many of the disenfranchised Apache 1.3 developers > > Who are these people?
/me raises a hand People have suggested that we have fewer developers today because Apache 2 is too complex. That the crappy economy has reduced the time people have to work on it. Or that Apache-1.3 is simply good enough for most people. I don't think it is any of that. Hackers love to hack, but hackers are also practical creatures. They hack on things that they need and use. They need and use Apache1 but we have taken our ball away and gone off to play another game. Just compare the list of contributors today to 4 years ago if you want a list. > 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. I think the key word there is "current" I also work for a large company with plenty of talented developers and thousands of production Apache-1.3 servers along with hundreds of custom Apache-1.3 modules. It will be years before I can even consider Apache2, given the architecture and API differences between the two. If something could be done in an Apache-1.4 and 2.1/2.2 to help bridge the gap perhaps one day Apache2 will be an option, but today it is simply too big a gap to jump and I am pretty sure the bulk of the Apache community is in the same boat. -Rasmus
