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> On Apr 19, 2018, at 6:09 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:
>
> On 18 Apr 2018, at 10:46 PM, Mark Blackman <m...@exonetric.com> wrote:
>
>> Is most popular the right thing to aim for? I would advise continuing to
>> trade on Apache’s current strengths (versatility and documentation for me
>> and relative stability) and let the chips fall where they may. It’s an open
>> source project with a massive first-mover advantage and no investors to
>> please. Just do the right thing, stay visible and the rest will sort itself
>> out.
>
> I agree strongly with this.
>
> I took a look at nginx and gave it a fair evaluation, then I discovered this:
>
> https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifisevil/
>
> with most specifically this:
>
> "Anything else may possibly cause unpredictable behaviour, including
> potential SIGSEGV.”
>
> Both this document and the idea that SIGSEGV would remain unfixed would never
> fly at Apache. Nginx suffers the problem in that product managers have to
> trade off the pressure of new features for the marketing people over the need
> to fix problems they already have. This isn’t sustainable for them.
>
> We have no such pressure - we release when it’s ready, not because some
> product manager made promises that their budget couldn’t keep.
>
> The strength of httpd is that it is a tank - it just keeps going and going.
> You can deploy it and completely forget about it, it just works. This frees
> up our users to focus their attention on doing whatever it is they want to do.
>
> Regards,
> Graham
> —
>
