Hi Luco,
I've nothing against a 2.6.x branch.
My only fear is things in trunk that is incomplete and or not enough
reviewed.
In other words, our backport mechanism with at least 3 votes is
safeguard for me.
My personal point of view is that 2.6.x should be built with backports
from trunk, just as done actually for 2.4.x.
But I know it is not the point of view of many others that consider that
what is in trunk is (or should be) functional, reviewed and tested.
Anyway, even if some things are less reviewed, alpha, beta and GA are
there to give others the opportunity to test and report issues, so I is
maybe not that bad to go this way, after all.
If we want to go on the 2.6 way, maybe we could open some discussion:
- should we deprecate or remove some 2.4.x functionalities or
modules? (mod_imagemap, mod_cern_meta, maybe NetWare support which has
really low activity, ...)
- should we remove things in trunk that are incomplete or lack
consensus: (this illustrate my fears above)
- mod_serf and libserf support? : serf project looks mostly
inactive nowadays, mod_sef have no documentation
- pcre2 support? (comments in commits or code say that it is
incomplete and that there is performance or memory management issues)
- things listed in 2.4/STATUS: PATCHES/ISSUES THAT ARE STALLED
- should we increase the APR minimum version and cleanup existing
code accordingly? (i.e. switch from some ap_ to apr_ functions)
- we could start to write a "new_features_2_6.html" in order to list
new goodies and incompatibilities and changed behavior
just my 2c.
CJ
Le 23/10/2019 à 08:28, Luca Toscano a écrit :
Not even a comment? :)
Luca
Il giorno dom 13 ott 2019 alle ore 20:58 Luca Toscano
<toscano.l...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Hi everybody,
in trunk's STATUS there are a lot of suggestions about things to
improve/change for 2.6.x. There have been discussions during the past
couple of years about how/when/if to create a 2.6 release branch, but
for a lot of reasons we didn't do any progress. Would it be something
to consider for the next months?
Luca
