+1 for pulling it unless someone steps forward.
> Am 19.11.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de>:
>
> While testing the 2.5.0 alpha candidate I noticed, that our optional use of
> serf in mod_proxy and mpm_event is pretty outdated (so unmaintained):
>
> - the serf API we use was only present in serf until version 0.3.1 (February
> 2010)
>
> - in May 2010 it was changed inside serf and httpd does not support this
> newer API
>
> - serf currently is now at version 1.3.9 (August 2016) providing stable APIs.
> There is still some basic maintenance activity in the serf project, for
> instance for supporting newer scons build tool versions or support for
> OpenSSL 1.1.0.
>
> I do not actually know what the serf support adds to httpd, it seems mostly
> some "SerfCluster" feature for mod_proxy. There's no docs and some comments
> in the code indicate the impl is not complete. SVN logs point to the same
> direction.
>
> Paul Querna wrote in his 2009 svn commit log message:
>
> Work in Progress.
>
> =====================
> Add Clustered proxying support to mod_serf, by using the heartbeats system.
>
> No preconfiguration of cluster members is needed.
>
> Just a config like this:
> SerfCluster sweet heartbeat file=/var/cache/apache/hb.dat
> SerfCluster sour heartbeat file=/var/cache/apache/cluster2.dat
> <Location "/">
> SerfPass cluster://sweet
> </Location>
> <Location "/different_cluster">
> SerfPass cluster://sour
> </Location>
>
> The location of all possible destination servers is provided by a new
> providers interface, that includes configuration checking of the arguments to
> the SerfCluster command, solving one of the worst problems with the mod_proxy
> load balancer subsystem.
> ===================
>
> I suggest we pull the serf dependent code if we can no find a maintainer for
> it. Any comments? Anyone interested in actually updating it and making it
> work?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
