cvs commit: apache-2.0 STATUS

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manoj       99/08/27 11:57:20

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  Log:
  First crack at a status file for Apache 2.0. Please fix mistakes and
  add/rearrange your pet projects
  
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  Apache 2.0 STATUS:
  Last modified at [$Date: 1999/08/27 18:57:17 $]
  
  Release:
  
      2.0: In pre-alpha development
  
  Plan:
  
      * Vague goal of an alpha or beta release in 1999. Commit-then-review
        is active.
  
  RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
  
      * CGI doesn't work
          Status: Ben Laurie is working on this.
  
      * mod_status doesn't work
          Status: Manoj Kasichainula <ma...@io.com> is working on this. A
          patch has been posted that starts to fix this:
          (<19...@samosa.mindspring.com> and
          <19...@io.com>)
  
      * suEXEC doesn't work
          Ben Laurie's work to fix CGIs will also fix this.
  
      * Windows NT port isn't done
          Status: Bill is working on this through his MPM work, and Ryan
          is with APR.
  
      * Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
        work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
  
          Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
  
      * The module API is a weird combination of the old table and the new
        hook system. Switch completely to the new hook system
          Status: Ben Laurie is working on this.
  
  RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
  
      (none listed)
  
  Other bugs that need fixing:
  
      * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
      
      * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
          Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
          behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
          completely.
  
  Other features that need writing:
  
      * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
  
      * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
          Status: Ryan Bloom <rb...@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
  
      * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
          Status: ?
  
      * Work on other MPMs. Possible MPMs discussed or in progress include:
  
        - David Reid's <ab...@dial.pipex.com> Beos MPM
            Status: in progress
  
        - Dean Gaudet's async MPM
            Status: ?
  
        - Zach Brown's <za...@zabbo.net> Linux siginfo MPM
            Status: ?
  
  Documentation that needs writing:
  
      * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
        given platform
  
      * New directives in the various MPMs
  
      * API documentation
          Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
          (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
  
  Available Patches:
  
     * Mike Abbott's <mj...@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
       performance
         Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
         2.0
  
  Open issues:
  
     * What do we do about mod_proxy?
  
     * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?