Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Michel Jansen
Hi there, If it aint broken it doesnt have to be fixed. Our purchase system is running almost 20 years on modperl and there is no reason for is to stop this. We are very happy with it. How about that? Michel Jansen > Op 18 mrt. 2021 om 17:48 heeft adam.pr...@utoronto.ca het volgende geschreve

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Ruben Safir
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 02:46:19PM -0400, Jim Albert wrote: > OK... last email on this topic. > I feel like I'm getting replies like I'm from another planet for > asking prudent questions. > If others want to keep their heads in the sand and get a huge > surprise someday when a Perl update or a new

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Ruben Safir
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 02:46:19PM -0400, Jim Albert wrote: > OK... last email on this topic. > I feel like I'm getting replies like I'm from another planet for > asking prudent questions. > If others want to keep their heads in the sand and get a huge > surprise someday when a Perl update or a new

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Jim Albert
OK... last email on this topic. I feel like I'm getting replies like I'm from another planet for asking prudent questions. If others want to keep their heads in the sand and get a huge surprise someday when a Perl update or a new version of Apache they just installed breaks mod_perl or there's

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Michel Jansen
Hi there, If it broken it doesnt have to be fixed. Our purchase system is running almost 20 years on modperl and there is no reason for is to stop this. We are very happy with it. How about that? Michel Jansen > Op 18 mrt. 2021 om 17:48 heeft adam.pr...@utoronto.ca het volgende geschreven: >

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Jim Albert
sorry for so much top-posting, but that seems to be the flow in this forum. I also notice a lack of reply-to header or some other reason that a reply action is to sender rather than modperl@perl.apache.org... kind of annoying unless my MX is messing with the forum's headers. OK... so an Apache

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread adam . prime
If you go back to Sander's original email, he outlines what will happen if we can't staff the PMC sufficiently to meet Apache's guidelines. The project woudl go to the attic[1]. There are lots of projects in the Attic. Some of them have been forked and continue to have development done on

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Jim Albert
On 3/18/2021 10:41 AM, Ruben Safir wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:37:02AM -0400, Jim Albert wrote: When mod_perl does come to an end what would an End of Life look like? maybe we can focus on keeping it maintained... really. A secure well written project like modperl doesn't need new featu

Re: What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Ruben Safir
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:37:02AM -0400, Jim Albert wrote: > When mod_perl does come to an end what would an End of Life look like? maybe we can focus on keeping it maintained... really. A secure well written project like modperl doesn't need new features and people destroying its API. It work

What would a mod_perl EOL look like?

2021-03-18 Thread Jim Albert
When mod_perl does come to an end what would an End of Life look like? I'm told mod_perl is an Apache Software Foundation project. Do Apache Software Foundation projects have a structured life cycle or do some just suddenly disappear with no warning given various situations that result in the n