Daniel, it was great meeting you as well... I'll be honest, I'd been "following" mod_lua but really hadn't been all that deeply interested, but your talk changed that. mod_lua really has a Major Feature written all over it and I'm a BIG +1 in getting all trunk features into 2.4 asap, and will do all I can to help.
Re: 2.6... I think one way of looking at it is to see how far we can take removing all blocking i/o from the input filters. I also liked the idea of a sub-connection (as a counter-point to existing sub-requests) that was suggested during the mod_spdy talk. On Mar 2, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Daniel Gruno <rum...@cord.dk> wrote: > This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but since we don't really have a > defocus@ mailing list, I thought I'd just send my email to this list. > > So, ApacheCon North America 2013 is finally over, and what a great > conference it was. > > I want to thank the people I met for being so awesome (Rainer, Mike, > Rich, Igor, Jim, Roy, Jeff, Bill, Chris, Daniel, the list goes on...) > and for doing some very impressive talks that showed that the httpd > project is still very much alive and kicking. I was especially impressed > by Jim and Rich's talks, and I hope that in time, I can become, if not > as awesome then just a hint more awesome at doing presentations. > > Furthermore, it was a great pleasure to meet some of the people that > don't necessarily contribute, but simply use httpd, and get some > feedback from them on what we can improve and what we're doing right. I > did see quite a few "small fixes" during the conference, which comes to > show that interaction between committers and users do matter, even when > it's more informal as the various barcamps and in-the-hallway meetings > were. > > There were also interesting questions being asked at the talks, which > will in time lead to some commits to fix or enhance various bits and > pieces of the httpd code. Personally, I'll be looking into doing a sync > of the trunk and the 2.4 branch with regards to mod_lua, as well as look > into perhaps extending the number of places where hooks can be > positioned early/late, as per Bill's suggestion at the mod_lua talk. On > a side note, I was humored as well as pleased to be asked about whether > mod_lua is a viable alternative to node.js - of course this depends > immensely on what exactly you're trying to accomplish, but > hey...anything is possible with mod_lua, or at least that's my overly > biased opinion ;) > > So, what does the future hold for httpd? Well, one of the interesting > times during the conference was Roy's "tumble-weed moment" where he > inquired on httpd 3.0 and the entire ballroom went dead silent. I think > this illustrates that while we do have a vibrant and healthy community, > we may not know exactly where we're going in the future, and this may be > a concern to some of our users. Will we be rewriting httpd completely, > will we just do a 2.6 that follows in the footsteps of 2.4, or...what > will we be doing? At some point, it would be nice if we could either get > a working group going or start a discussion of what we'd want the next > httpd to be and how we'll get there. I know much of this hinges on the > HTTP/2.0 work being done by Roy et al. and so I'm not trying to force > people to think about it right now, but at some point, we need to figure > out where we want to be once HTTP/2.0 becomes a reality. Maybe we'll be > the first major web server supporting it? Who knows. > > Anywho, thanks for a truly awesome ApacheCon, and I really hope to see > the same cool httpd gang next time, and hopefully more of the committers > that have contributed so much brilliant code to the httpd project over > the last year. > > One thing that I would have liked to have happen was an actual httpd > team get-together where we could say hello and talk a bit more about > httpd and what we're each working/tinkering on at the moment. This will > naturally have to be planned in advance, which seems to be where it all > failed. I'll do my best to hash out some plans for the next meetup, so > we can get down to business and discuss what awesome plans we have for > httpd. > > I promise, I will work on improving my presentations (my mod_lua talk > went okay, but the HRM talk tanked due to me losing my slides - talk > about bad luck) and I hope/know that the rest of you will just be > awesome as usual next time around. > > With regards, > Daniel. >
