On Mar 12, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Adiel Cristo wrote:
I am a student of Computer Science UFBA - Brazil, and share the
documentation list for a long time because I am developing a project
that involves the Apache HTTP Server Documentation.
I don't know if the discussion of these changes in nomenclature of
the server is open to everyone or just to you who work directly with
the documentation, but I make a suggestion.
It can be defined at the beginning of documentation, in a relevant
local, that "Apache HTTP Server" refers to the server as a whole,
including all its processes (httpd, apachectl, etc.) and "httpd"
refers to the process explicitly, or could be used only "httpd" for
two, with a different markup to distinguish when referring to the
server and when it refers to the process.
I think that use only the term "Apache 2" would lead to the belief
that "Apache 1" or simply "Apache" refers to the first version of
the server.
That's correct. We're not going to use the term 'Apache 2'. It needs
to be either 'Apache HTTP Server' or 'httpd' or 'Apache httpd.' What
remains to determine is in what contexts we use each, and whether it
matters, and whether any particular markup should be used in each case.
What I'm suggesting is that we use 'Apache HTTP Server (httpd)' at the
beginning of a document, and 'httpd' thereafter. Perhaps repeating
this at the beginning of a major section.
--Rich
