On 19 Apr 2018, at 11:57 AM, Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com> wrote: > Feel like I should drop 2c in here... > > I'd be VERY happy to see more frequent "major" version bumps, i.e. > 2.4->2.6->2.8 or whatever which break backwards compat/ABI. We have the > chance to break compat every ~6 months in Fedora so it's no problem > getting new code into the hands of users.
As an end user of the software I would hate that. I love the fact that I can drop httpd v2.4.latest as published by ASF onto a RHEL machine and it “just works”. No recompiling modules to a new ABI, particularly large modules with large ecosystems, no mess, no fuss. No discovery that to get feature X I need to upgrade through two major versions along with the dependency hell that results to get there. I get it that this convenience comes at a price - Redhat is doing work that I would otherwise do, but then that’s what I’m paying Redhat for. That said - yes, we should work to release v2.6.x. Just not every six months. Regards, Graham —
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