Apache 3
May 19th, 2008
I’m pretty sure I’m late to this party, but here’s a link to a talk called Apache 3.0 (a tall tale) by Roy Fielding at ApacheCon Europe 2008.
Apache is one of the older open source Web projects out there, and Mozilla can learn a lot from its successes and failures. In particular, we can learn a lot from their past release schedule and the types of features that are interfering with their ability to have fun.
Later on, the talk moves into the design of Waka and Apache 3.0. I think Mozilla should consider collaborating on Waka and Moccasin (a proposed replacement for APR). For better or worse, we ship a networking library, so let’s hop along for the ride.
What say the Mozilla community?
May 20th, 2008 at 5:35 am
I’m not sure how I feel about this Waka stuff. I agree that there’s room to move HTTP forward, but I don’t know that a completely breaking change is the best way to go about it. I just think that we have so much invested in HTTP at this point, that throwing that all away seems crazy.