I could see a great case for a project containing mod_xxx for Apache web server. Would be a lot of commonality I would imagine. Afaik, these are all in httpd anyway though. [mod_perl/pmod_php/mod_tcl having their own. why no mod_ruby/mod_python etc?] Might help mod_jk to be a part of Apache-httpd and Tomcat too.
mod_python is a sub-project of HTTP Server. AFAIK, no one has approached the ASF (or HTTP Server PMC) with a mod_ruby. If offered, I'd like to see that as an offering, too.
As far as hosting httpd modules under Commons, I'm pretty adamant that is outside of the scope of Commons. For now, modules can reside under HTTP Server (and I think we are trying to expand the modules that we host under HTTP Server).
If the modules as a whole eventually become large enough to warrant their own PMC, then they could have their own top-level project. I just don't see that happening anytime soon. Welllllll, if the ASF shifted away from language-only top-level projects, we might indeed have a grouping that includes mod_perl, mod_tcl, mod_jk, and the modules already under HTTP Server, perhaps we do have enough mass for a modules top-level project. That's a tar-pit though. -- justin
