| Apache 2.0 STATUS: |
| Last modified at [$Date: 2000/02/16 18:29:20 $] |
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| Release: |
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| Vague plan, assuming more features aren't demanded for the 2.0 release |
| 2.0a1/b1: January 2000 |
| 2.0 : later in 2000 |
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| RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: |
| * Reliable piped logs look broken everywhere. Each MPM includes essentially |
| identical code to ap_register_other_child(), etc. Most of this code can |
| be moved out of the MPMs and into some common file (http_core.c?). |
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| * DSO hooks registered during the preflight call to ap_read_config |
| are not 'unregistered' during the preflight clean-up. Thus, when |
| Apache comes up, the hook tables contain two entries for each DSO hook, |
| one of which is bogus, leftover from the preflight. |
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| * Pipes to CGI scripts are not being timed out |
| Status: code has been added to APR to support timing out pipes. |
| This needs to be used in Apache now. |
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| * Put back resource limit code |
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| * Port mod_rewrite |
| Status: Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this. |
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| * suEXEC doesn't work |
| Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this. |
| <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com> |
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| * Win32: Fix Win9* specific code in the winnt MPM |
| Status: |
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| * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the |
| native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the |
| CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time |
| we access the logs? |
| Status: |
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| * Win32: Smoke test all ported modules to make sure they work |
| correctly under Windows. |
| Status: |
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| * 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. |
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| * 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. |
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| * Modules. Which modules do not work yet, can we get a list? |
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| * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix. |
| Status: The best known candidate would be something from BIND |
| (v8 or v9?) The only other option would be to mutex all the |
| resolver calls, |
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| RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP: |
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| * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API |
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| * Win32: Non-blocking CGI pipes |
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| * Win32: Graceful restart of a service is broken (code does shutdown then start) |
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| * Dynamically loadable MPMs |
| Enable users of the binary distributions of Apache to be able to |
| dynamically load the MPM. |
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| * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400) |
| Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code |
| that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on |
| platforms that do not support fork. |
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| * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't |
| remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in |
| 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there. |
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| * Go throught the Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended". People |
| were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0, it |
| would be nice to actually do so. |
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| * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This |
| would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially |
| duplicates what is in APR. |
| Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this. |
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| * Move I/O layering into APR. |
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| * There are still a number of places in the code where we are |
| loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a |
| system call and replacing it with a generic error code) |
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| * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows |
| Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> has prototype code (not |
| reliable) in 1.3. Should be much cleaner with APR in 2.0. |
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| * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration. |
| Status: Manoj has placed an initial version into the 2.0 |
| repository. Todos include: |
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| - "make install" should work |
| - a tool to simplfy third-party module building should be |
| written. Something like apxs |
| - Add a lot more checks to satisfy the various platforms, e.g. |
| for threading |
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| * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies. |
| Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this. |
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| * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats |
| are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status |
| is ugly. |
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| Other bugs that need fixing: |
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| * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests. |
| Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it |
| "MaxConnectionsPerChild". |
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| * 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. |
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| * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a |
| sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless |
| there is hope soon for a fixed glibc. |
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| Other features that need writing: |
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| * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs |
| Status: ? |
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| * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there |
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| * Work on other MPMs. Possible MPMs discussed or in progress include: |
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| - Dean Gaudet's async MPM |
| Status: dean is unlikely to begin work on this any time soon... |
| has lots of ideas he'll share with folks willing to begin |
| tackling the issues. this is apache 2.1 material. |
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| - Zach Brown's <zab@zabbo.net> Linux siginfo MPM |
| Status: ? |
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| Documentation that needs writing: |
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| * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a |
| given platform |
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| * New directives in the various MPMs |
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| * API documentation |
| Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation |
| (apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html) |
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| * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file |
| dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0 |
| which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were |
| committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog |
| does not show the contents of new files until later. |
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| Available Patches: |
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| * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve |
| performance |
| Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to |
| 2.0 |
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| Open issues: |
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| * What do we do about mod_proxy? |
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| * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0? |
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| * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete. |
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