On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Paul Querna wrote:
I believe the httpd project is ready for a push towards the next major version.
So do I. In fact I was just about to create a sandbox for that purpose yesterday, but had to get the crypto stuff sorted out first. But do we really want to start by calling it 3.0? How about if we work off of a few code names first? Say, for example, "amsterdam". The reason is because there will be some overlap between ideas of how to do certain things, with a variety of overlapping breakage that can get pretty annoying if you "just want to get one part working first". I want people to be able to break things in one tree without blocking others. And then, say once a month, we all agree on what parts are "finished" enough to merge into all sandbox trees. The reason I was about to start the sandbox thing is because I've been thinking about moving away from the MPM design. To be precise, I mean that we should get closer to the kernels on the more modern platforms and find a way to stay in kernel-land until a valid request is received (with load restrictions tested and ipfw applied automatically), transform the request into a waka message, and then dispatch that request to a process running under a userid that matches a prefix on the URI. That's pretty far out, though, and I wouldn't want it to stand in the way of any shorter term goals. In the mean time, I would like to start the sandbox and move the goals and requirements discussion into subversion (where it can be saved and comments don't get lost). ....Roy
