Stuff in my sandbox...

["Robert S. Thau" <rs...@ai.mit.edu>]

Here's what's in my sandbox for the next Apache spin... I'm willing to
take stuff out, if people have gripes.  I'd like to produce a release
candidate very soon; I'm hoping (perhaps unreasonably, but it has been
a *while*) that the next thing I produce will be something we can all
try for 24 hours and then announce.

However, there is at least one thing that we may want to deal with
before the release about which I've done *nothing* yet, which is the
MaxClients/AbsMaxServers/whatever mess.  We have at least two active
candidate names for this thing (the two listed explicitly); I've heard
no reaction to the MaxClients idea yet.  At this point, I'm just as
happy to leave it for the inevitable bugfix release in a few weeks,
but I'm not sure *that's* the consensus either.  Sigh...

The only other minor thing hanging is a guy who posted on
c.i.w.s.u. saying he couldn't get the new version to run on OSF/1.  I
can (I tried it out on my friendly neighborhood alpha box), and I
suspect he just had it configured wrong, but it would be nice to be
sure.  However, if he doesn't answer my email, I'm comfortable going
ahead anyway...

Other notes on what's up --- I couldn't get Alexei's config-file patch
to apply cleanly, so I had to do it manually, with the result that the
text at the top of the files is still mine out of sheer laziness (I
can't see the difference).   

Anyway, the total list of changes in my private sandbox to date ---
I'm running with all of these (including logging with the configurable
log thing, to see if it screws me.  Heck, if it works on *hyperreal*
...).  If anyone objects to any of these, please yell NOW.

  *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
     *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
     fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]

  *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
     legal disclaimer (everyplace).

  *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module.

  *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
     properly.  (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).

  *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX.  A/UX is *weird*.  [Eric Hagberg]

  *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].

  *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
     of everywhere else.

Re: Stuff in my sandbox...

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> Here's what's in my sandbox for the next Apache spin... I'm willing to
> take stuff out, if people have gripes.  I'd like to produce a release
> candidate very soon; I'm hoping (perhaps unreasonably, but it has been
> a *while*) that the next thing I produce will be something we can all
> try for 24 hours and then announce.

I'll commit to this too.  As for the numbering, I say we

1) release as 0.8.5
2) fix bugs as they appear, and include new modules with the distribution 
   as 0.8.x (x > 5) 
3) complete the enhancements of the API (as per Cliff's suggestions, to 
   make it have more AddHandler-ish functions - the onus is on him to 
   work on it) as 0.9
4) more incremental bug fixes, /cgi-src enhancements, perhaps 
   runtime administrative interfaces which read the process scoreboard, 
   etc. at 0.9.x
5) When we're all happy, APACHE 1.0

thoughts?

> However, there is at least one thing that we may want to deal with
> before the release about which I've done *nothing* yet, which is the
> MaxClients/AbsMaxServers/whatever mess.  We have at least two active
> candidate names for this thing (the two listed explicitly); I've heard
> no reaction to the MaxClients idea yet.  At this point, I'm just as
> happy to leave it for the inevitable bugfix release in a few weeks,
> but I'm not sure *that's* the consensus either.  Sigh...

"AbsMaxServers" makes the most sense to me.  To me, this is important to 
have in a config file, simply because there are situations where changing 
this quickly might be important - like if I know Hyperreal was going to 
be doing some nasty memory-intensive database stuff one evening and 
wanted to keep this low so no swapping happens, etc - I should be able to 
do this without recompiling.  

All the other sandbox-stuff I'm, happy with.  I'm running 0.8.4 on 
hyperreal and links.net - for heterogeneity I'd like to see hotwired try 
it out before announcement, but hey, it wouldn't really be software if it 
didn't have bugs in it, and I'm comfortable at this point that we've made 
our best effort.

So, Rob will put 0.8.5 on hyperreal in the proper places, I'll work on 
documentation tonight, and let's announce tomorrow.

	Brian

--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
brian@organic.com  brian@hyperreal.com  http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/