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| + The Apache HTTP Server Project
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| + http://httpd.apache.org/
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| + February 2002
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| +The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed
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| +at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely-available
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| +source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is
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| +jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using
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| +the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and
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| +its related documentation. These volunteers are known as the Apache Group.
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| +In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and
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| +documentation to the project. This file is intended to briefly describe
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| +the history of the Apache Group, recognize the many contributors, and
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| +explain how you can join the fun too.
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| +In February of 1995, the most popular server software on the Web was the
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| +public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool at the National Center
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| +for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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| +However, development of that httpd had stalled after Rob left NCSA in
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| +mid-1994, and many webmasters had developed their own extensions and bug
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| +fixes that were in need of a common distribution. A small group of these
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| +webmasters, contacted via private e-mail, gathered together for the purpose
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| +of coordinating their changes (in the form of "patches"). Brian Behlendorf
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| +and Cliff Skolnick put together a mailing list, shared information space,
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| +and logins for the core developers on a machine in the California Bay Area,
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| +with bandwidth and diskspace donated by HotWired and Organic Online.
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| +By the end of February, eight core contributors formed the foundation
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| +of the original Apache Group:
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| + Brian Behlendorf Roy T. Fielding Rob Hartill
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| + David Robinson Cliff Skolnick Randy Terbush
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| + Robert S. Thau Andrew Wilson
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| +with additional contributions from
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| + Eric Hagberg Frank Peters Nicolas Pioch
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| +Using NCSA httpd 1.3 as a base, we added all of the published bug fixes
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| +and worthwhile enhancements we could find, tested the result on our own
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| +servers, and made the first official public release (0.6.2) of the Apache
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| +server in April 1995. By coincidence, NCSA restarted their own development
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| +during the same period, and Brandon Long and Beth Frank of the NCSA Server
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| +Development Team joined the list in March as honorary members so that the
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| +two projects could share ideas and fixes.
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| +The early Apache server was a big hit, but we all knew that the codebase
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| +needed a general overhaul and redesign. During May-June 1995, while
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| +Rob Hartill and the rest of the group focused on implementing new features
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| +for 0.7.x (like pre-forked child processes) and supporting the rapidly growing
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| +Apache user community, Robert Thau designed a new server architecture
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| +(code-named Shambhala) which included a modular structure and API for better
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| +extensibility, pool-based memory allocation, and an adaptive pre-forking
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| +process model. The group switched to this new server base in July and added
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| +the features from 0.7.x, resulting in Apache 0.8.8 (and its brethren)
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| +in August.
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| +After extensive beta testing, many ports to obscure platforms, a new set
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| +of documentation (by David Robinson), and the addition of many features
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| +in the form of our standard modules, Apache 1.0 was released on
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| +December 1, 1995.
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| +Less than a year after the group was formed, the Apache server passed
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| +NCSA's httpd as the #1 server on the Internet.
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| +The survey by Netcraft (http://www.netcraft.com/survey/) shows that Apache
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| +is today more widely used than all other web servers combined.
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| +
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| + ============================================================================
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| +
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| +Current Apache Group in alphabetical order as of 2 April 2002:
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| + Greg Ames IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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| + Aaron Bannert California
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| + Brian Behlendorf Collab.Net, California
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| + Ken Coar IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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| + Mark J. Cox Red Hat, UK
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| + Lars Eilebrecht Freelance Consultant, Munich, Germany
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| + Ralf S. Engelschall Cable & Wireless Deutschland, Munich, Germany
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| + Justin Erenkrantz University of California, Irvine
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| + Roy T. Fielding Day Software, California
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| + Tony Finch Covalent Technologies, California
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| + Dean Gaudet Transmeta Corporation, California
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| + Dirk-Willem van Gulik Covalent Technologies, California
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| + Brian Havard Australia
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| + Ian Holsman CNET, California
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| + Ben Hyde Gensym, Massachusetts
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| + Jim Jagielski jaguNET Access Services, Maryland
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| + Manoj Kasichainula Collab.Net, California
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| + Alexei Kosut Stanford University, California
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| + Martin Kraemer Munich, Germany
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| + Ben Laurie Freelance Consultant, UK
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| + Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo!, California
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| + Daniel Lopez Ridruejo Covalent Technologies, California
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| + Doug MacEachern Covalent Technologies, California
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| + Aram W. Mirzadeh CableVision, New York
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| + Chuck Murcko The Topsail Group, Pennsylvania
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| + Brian Pane CNET Networks, California
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| + Sameer Parekh California
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| + David Reid UK
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| + William A. Rowe, Jr. Covalent, Illinois
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| + Wilfredo Sanchez Apple Computer, California
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| + Cliff Skolnick California
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| + Marc Slemko Canada
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| + Joshua Slive Canada
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| + Greg Stein California
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| + Bill Stoddard IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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| + Sander Striker The Netherlands
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| + Paul Sutton Seattle
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| + Randy Terbush Covalent Technologies, California
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| + Jeff Trawick IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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| + Cliff Woolley University of Virginia
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| +Apache Emeritus (old group members now off doing other things)
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| +
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| + Ryan Bloom California
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| + Rob Hartill Internet Movie DB, UK
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| + David Robinson Cambridge University, UK
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| + Robert S. Thau MIT, Massachusetts
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| + Andrew Wilson Freelance Consultant, UK
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| +Other major contributors
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| + Howard Fear (mod_include), Florent Guillaume (language negotiation),
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| + Koen Holtman (rewrite of mod_negotiation),
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| + Kevin Hughes (creator of all those nifty icons),
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| + Brandon Long and Beth Frank (NCSA Server Development Team, post-1.3),
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| + Ambarish Malpani (Beginning of the NT port),
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| + Rob McCool (original author of the NCSA httpd 1.3),
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| + Paul Richards (convinced the group to use remote CVS after 1.0),
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| + Garey Smiley (OS/2 port), Henry Spencer (author of the regex library).
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| +Many 3rd-party modules, frequently used and recommended, are also
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| +freely-available and linked from the related projects page:
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| +<http://modules.apache.org/>, and their authors frequently
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| +contribute ideas, patches, and testing.
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| +Hundreds of people have made individual contributions to the Apache
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| +project. Patch contributors are listed in the CHANGES file.
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| +Frequent contributors have included Petr Lampa, Tom Tromey, James H.
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| +Cloos Jr., Ed Korthof, Nathan Neulinger, Jason S. Clary, Jason A. Dour,
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| +Michael Douglass, Tony Sanders, Brian Tao, Michael Smith, Adam Sussman,
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| +Nathan Schrenk, Matthew Gray, and John Heidemann.
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| +
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| + ============================================================================
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| +How to become involved in the Apache project
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| +There are several levels of contributing. If you just want to send
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| +in an occasional suggestion/fix, then you can just use the bug reporting
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| +form at <http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html>. You can also subscribe
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| +to the announcements mailing list (announce-subscribe@httpd.apache.org) which
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| +we use to broadcast information about new releases, bugfixes, and upcoming
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| +events. There's a lot of information about the development process (much of
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| +it in serious need of updating) to be found at <http://httpd.apache.org/dev/>.
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| +If you'd like to become an active contributor to the Apache project (the
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| +group of volunteers who vote on changes to the distributed server), then
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| +you need to start by subscribing to the dev@httpd.apache.org mailing list.
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| +One warning though: traffic is high, 1000 to 1500 messages/month.
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| +To subscribe to the list, send an email to dev-subscribe@httpd.apache.org.
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| +We recommend reading the list for a while before trying to jump in to
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| +development.
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| + NOTE: The developer mailing list (dev@httpd.apache.org) is not
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| + a user support forum; it is for people actively working on development
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| + of the server code and documentation, and for planning future
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| + directions. If you have user/configuration questions, send them
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| + to users list <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist> or to the USENET
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| + newsgroup "comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix".or for windows users,
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| + the newsgroup "comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows".
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| +There is a core group of contributors (informally called the "core")
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| +which was formed from the project founders and is augmented from time
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| +to time when core members nominate outstanding contributors and the
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| +rest of the core members agree. The core group focus is more on
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| +"business" issues and limited-circulation things like security problems
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| +than on mainstream code development. The term "The Apache Group"
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| +technically refers to this core of project contributors.
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| +The Apache project is a meritocracy -- the more work you have done, the more
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| +you are allowed to do. The group founders set the original rules, but
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| +they can be changed by vote of the active members. There is a group
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| +of people who have logins on our server (apache.org) and access to the
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| +CVS repository. Everyone has access to the CVS snapshots. Changes to
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| +the code are proposed on the mailing list and usually voted on by active
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| +members -- three +1 (yes votes) and no -1 (no votes, or vetoes) are needed
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| +to commit a code change during a release cycle; docs are usually committed
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| +first and then changed as needed, with conflicts resolved by majority vote.
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| +Our primary method of communication is our mailing list. Approximately 40
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| +messages a day flow over the list, and are typically very conversational in
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| +tone. We discuss new features to add, bug fixes, user problems, developments
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| +in the web server community, release dates, etc. The actual code development
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| +takes place on the developers' local machines, with proposed changes
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| +communicated using a patch (output of a unified "diff -u oldfile newfile"
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| +command), and committed to the source repository by one of the core
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| +developers using remote CVS. Anyone on the mailing list can vote on a
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| +particular issue, but we only count those made by active members or people
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| +who are known to be experts on that part of the server. Vetoes must be
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| +accompanied by a convincing explanation.
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| +New members of the Apache Group are added when a frequent contributor is
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| +nominated by one member and unanimously approved by the voting members.
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| +In most cases, this "new" member has been actively contributing to the
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| +group's work for over six months, so it's usually an easy decision.
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| +The above describes our past and current (as of July 2000) guidelines,
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| +which will probably change over time as the membership of the group
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| +changes and our development/coordination tools improve.
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| + ============================================================================
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| +The Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org)
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| +
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| +The Apache Software Foundation exists to provide organizational, legal,
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| +and financial support for the Apache open-source software projects.
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| +Founded in June 1999 by the Apache Group, the Foundation has been
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| +incorporated as a membership-based, not-for-profit corporation in order
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| +to ensure that the Apache projects continue to exist beyond the participation
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| +of individual volunteers, to enable contributions of intellectual property
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| +and funds on a sound basis, and to provide a vehicle for limiting legal
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| +exposure while participating in open-source software projects.
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| +You are invited to participate in The Apache Software Foundation. We welcome
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| +contributions in many forms. Our membership consists of those individuals
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| +who have demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open-source software
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| +development through sustained participation and contributions within the
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| +Foundation's projects. Many people and companies have contributed towards
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| +the success of the Apache projects.
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| + ============================================================================
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| +Why Apache Is Free
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| +Apache exists to provide a robust and commercial-grade reference
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| +implementation of the HTTP protocol. It must remain a platform upon which
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| +individuals and institutions can build reliable systems, both for
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| +experimental purposes and for mission-critical purposes. We believe the
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| +tools of online publishing should be in the hands of everyone, and
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| +software companies should make their money providing value-added services
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| +such as specialized modules and support, amongst other things. We realize
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| +that it is often seen as an economic advantage for one company to "own" a
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| +market - in the software industry that means to control tightly a
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| +particular conduit such that all others must pay. This is typically done
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| +by "owning" the protocols through which companies conduct business, at the
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| +expense of all those other companies. To the extent that the protocols of
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| +the World Wide Web remain "unowned" by a single company, the Web will
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| +remain a level playing field for companies large and small. Thus,
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| +"ownership" of the protocol must be prevented, and the existence of a
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| +robust reference implementation of the protocol, available absolutely for
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| +free to all companies, is a tremendously good thing.
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| +Furthermore, Apache is an organic entity; those who benefit from it
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| +by using it often contribute back to it by providing feature enhancements,
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| +bug fixes, and support for others in public newsgroups. The amount of
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| +effort expended by any particular individual is usually fairly light, but
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| +the resulting product is made very strong. This kind of community can
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| +only happen with freeware -- when someone pays for software, they usually
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| +aren't willing to fix its bugs. One can argue, then, that Apache's
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| +strength comes from the fact that it's free, and if it were made "not
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| +free" it would suffer tremendously, even if that money were spent on a
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| +real development team.
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| +We want to see Apache used very widely -- by large companies, small
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| +companies, research institutions, schools, individuals, in the intranet
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| +environment, everywhere -- even though this may mean that companies who
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| +could afford commercial software, and would pay for it without blinking,
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| +might get a "free ride" by using Apache. We would even be happy if some
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| +commercial software companies completely dropped their own HTTP server
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| +development plans and used Apache as a base, with the proper attributions
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| +as described in the LICENSE file.
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| +Thanks for using Apache!
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