Re: 101 - Re: The List

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

Your comments are all valid. (good to know eh?) :-)

Disregard my previous rant.

To add my 2 cents....

Perhaps an approach of releasing patches by a quick vote, and a
monthly release rolling all of the current patches?

Afterall, I think most of us are here to explore the unknown, and
reap the free lunches.... Let's get on with it.


> Alexei:
> > Maybe. Although, I'm still wondering whatever happened to 1.0.1. Can
> > someone please tell me?
> 
> Built, uploaded, unnannounced.  In use by 200+ or so of the more
> technically aware webmasters out there, who already knew about the
> httpd/dist directories.  There are probably just as many users of 1.0.0
> with the race_condition patch added.
> 
> 1.0.1 on it's own is possibly not enough.  David R's pointed to a some
> stack overwriting errors which should also be closed up in future
> releases.
> 
> The bottom line is that we have not agreed on a strategy for managing
> firefighting updates to supposedly stable code, such as 1.0.1 was
> deemed to be.  I think we've been a bit confused about the right thing
> to do, and I'm less certain now than I was when 1.0.1 was built, that
> we should have immediately released 1.0.1.
> 
> I have to keep reminding myself that this is fun but time consuming
> work and if I put myself in a position where I (c'est moi) have to
> react to every screaming sys-admin's problems within 30 seconds then,
> for me, Apache becomes a software maintainance drudge, instead of a
> voyage of discovery, self fulfillment and free lunches.  Mmm, there's
> some sarchasm in there somewhere I think.
> 
> I think (I'm hoping) that once we start releasing new betas
> (1.1b0-1-2-3) then the confusion will fade away.  However, I'm not sure
> that sys-admins relying on the server in a mission-critical role would
> be quite so happy with this laid-back attitude.  It's the difference
> between having fun on the internet and being part of a hardcore
> programming project.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ay.