[Kritton-devel] What we have, what we should do

[Vassilis P. <pa...@ya...>]

Hi all,

The list of what has been done can be easily found in the CVS
Changelog. I feel that there have been plenty of changes, certainly
enough to justify a release. I agree with Nigel however, that we have
to determine the goals that we want to achieve. 
My own view of the subject is that Kritton should focus on providing an
efficient, stable webserver. Primary focuses should be on stability. In
terms of features I also believe that we should try to incorporate as
many as possible, enough at least to satisfy most peoples' needs. We
can't provide the funtionality of Apache, but we can outweigh the
feature disadvantage by avoiding complex installations. Apache is under
the Apache license with renders it non-free, yet open source and
permissive. It is a very long shot, but we can aim to provide an
alternative to Apache, which is though under the GNU GPL.
Thinking of it in the short term, I think that development should aim
on the following:

- Making the server compatible with the HTTP 1.1 protocol. The basic
aspects of the protocol are already working, but it definitely needs
more work.
- Support for PHP and CGI. CGI is already there, but not completely.
- Improve logging.
- Support for server side scripting.
- ASP perhaps?

I don't know what else to suggest right now. Add to the above list, and
then we can discuss the roadmap, saying what will be implemented, and
at what version. We should also try to set very rough release dates. We
should try to aim to have all the features implemented by 0.9, so that
the 0.9.x releases are all bug fix releases for 1.0 which ought to be
very stable, and secure.

Do you feel that 0.5, as it is now, deserves promotion? We do not want
to promote before it is too early, but we cannot attain perfect
stability before promoting because we won't have users to report bugs.
Do you have any ideas as to how promotion can succeed?

Pandis


		
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