Subject: Re: The List
To: Andrew Wilson <andrew@tees.elsevier.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:46:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: Ben Laurie <ben@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>
Cc: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
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> 
>     [Mmm, reply to's semantics have changed.  I'm sure that I didn't
>     have to esxplicitly set the To: new-httpd header before ?!]

Yep, they have. Neither the "From:" nor the "Reply-To:" are being set to
new-httpd. This is definitely a backwards step!

> 
> 
> Brian:
> > Hmm, I'm sensing the development fires to be cooling somewhat.
> 
> I finish my 1 year's contract this Friday (honest, it's like boot camp
> out there) so I can start shovelling coal next Monday, for a couple of
> months.
> 
> > Perhaps 
> > if we had a list of projects to focus on, we'd be better off?  In that 
> > hope, I wrote up into an HTML file a list of things I've been scrawling on
> > various scraps of paper up to this point, to see if perhaps we could 
> > prioritize the work we do so we don't get overwhelmed with the number of 
> > things on our plate?
> 
> Yum.  I've got a couple of patches doing the rounds out in bugs land
> which I'll wrap up and upload over the weekend.  I think I'll also
> summarise this months apache-bugs traffic, such as I've seen, it's been
> a bit quiet.
> 
> > A stab at that is at http://bong.com/httpd/todo.html.  It's split up into 
> > a list of known bugs (at least the ones I could remember), things we have 
> > agreed would be a Good Thing to put on the to-do list, and finally "wish 
> > list" items.  I'd like to first ask for submissions for additional 
> > entries on the list, and then after that we can talk about priorities.  
> > Howzatsound?
> 
> I hear it.  There's a lot of slack in the area of configuration, Carl
> Kalbfleisch's modular management interface proposals, and Brandon
> Gillespie's autoconf ideas spring to mind.  And yeah, I'd *love* apache
> to have the option to warn rather then fail when it hit a directive it
> didn't understand.

I'm just about to learn autoconf if people want to start moving that way...

> 
> Cheers,
> Ay.

Cheers,

Ben.

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