Re: [naviserver-devel] Why was NaviServer forked?

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

Am 12.07.2006 um 18:13 schrieb Mike:

> On 7/12/06, Zoran Vasiljevic <zv...@ar...> wrote:
>> Our fork (15.02.2005) was motivated with similar reasons. All of us
>> depend (to a high extent) to the server code which means that we'd  
>> like
>> to have certain "influence" about the direction of the develompent.
>> This proved to be a very time consuming and difficult task in the AS
>> project as things have been questioned, re-questioned, endlessly
>> flamed etc.
> ...
>> So. I hope I did not open more questions than I attempted to answer!
>> If yes, hit me with your rhythm stick :-)
>
> Zoran,
>   Thank you for your complete answer.  It does raise a few questions,
> but they are simple...
>
> 1) Are you or the other developers committed to fixing bugs that do
> not affect your business?  Again, this is not hostile - but I want to
> know, since the dev. team is small, if I run into bugs, will I be told
> "we work on the parts we need, feel free to fix it and submit a patch"
> or can I expect more of a "this is an opensource project we run, so we
> will devote time to helpind you with this bug you found."

I can't speak of others but if you have a problem with the server code
itself and if I see that I can help I will do that. I'm already  
maintaining
the Tcl threading extension so I know what you are asking about...
I believe the others will do the same.


>
> 2) Was anything from AS 4.5 merged into NS, if not - is there a  
> plan for this?
>

This is good question! I do not know by heart. I will have to go
and double-check against the 4.5 list. As the matter of fact, we
added quite a lot of core-code which is not in the 4.5. The only
source of such info at this moment is the ChangeLog. This contains
everything but is not that easy to read.

>   Finally, I would like to ask that you post either the above verbatum
> or a modified version of your response somewhere on the NS wiki.
> Perhaps short bios of you, Vlad, and Stephen and when you care about
> developing NS would be quite helpful.  Right now the only information
> available is the "Key Facts" page, and it's quite hard to guage where
> this project comes from or why simply by reading that page.

Well... I will have to see with other collegues... You know how it goes:
we are all programmers and it's easier for us to write code than to
write marketing materials! But I understand that this sort of info is
needed.

Cheers
Zoran