Remote Netware support from APR-trunk (was Netware docs and mpm_netware)

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Moving to [email protected]  from [email protected].

On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 15:22, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Apr 15, 2026, at 9:11=E2=80=AFAM, Eric Covener <[email protected]> w=
rote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 8:57=E2=80=AFAM Bowen, Rich <[email protected]>=
 wrote:
> >>
> >> I=E2=80=99m working through a task that I have had back-burnered for =
=E2=80=A6 well, a
> few years =E2=80=A6 of bringing all of our docs into compliance with the =
style
> guide (and actually codifying that style guide, rather than it just being
> something we casually agreed to on IRC in the early 2000s! Yay!)
> >>
> >> Anyways, I got to
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/platform/netware.html and I am
> wondering if this is something that is still in any sense relevant or
> correct in 2026. Netware EOL=E2=80=99ed in 2009, and none of the Novell.c=
om links
> in the doc work, nor is there anything obvious to replace them with. Is i=
t
> time to drop all of the Netware stuff? If not, is there someone who can
> work with me to make this document correspond with current reality?
> >
> > I think it's long-abandoned and anything along the spectrum of remove
> > or replace with placeholder is fine.
>
> Not sure what the way forward is here. It certainly appears that this
> module is unmaintained, and probably nobody is using it. Is it time to ca=
ll
> a formal vote to deprecate/retire/remove this module?
>
>
Given that Netware EOL'ed in 2009 I suggest to drop support for Netware in
APR.

How does it sound?

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Ivan Zhakov

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Moving to <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">dev@a=
pr.apache.org</a>=C2=A0 from <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">dev@ht=
tpd.apache.org</a>.</div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_containe=
r"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Wed, 22 Apr 2026 at 15:22, Rich=
 Bowen &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;=
 wrote:<br></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px =
0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
<br>
&gt; On Apr 15, 2026, at 9:11=E2=80=AFAM, Eric Covener &lt;<a href=3D"mailt=
o:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 8:57=E2=80=AFAM Bowen, Rich &lt;<a href=3D"mai=
lto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:<b=
r>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; I=E2=80=99m working through a task that I have had back-burnered f=
or =E2=80=A6 well, a few years =E2=80=A6 of bringing all of our docs into c=
ompliance with the style guide (and actually codifying that style guide, ra=
ther than it just being something we casually agreed to on IRC in the early=
 2000s! Yay!)<br>
&gt;&gt; <br>
&gt;&gt; Anyways, I got to <a href=3D"https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current=
/platform/netware.html" rel=3D"noreferrer" target=3D"_blank">https://httpd.=
apache.org/docs/current/platform/netware.html</a> and I am wondering if thi=
s is something that is still in any sense relevant or correct in 2026. Netw=
are EOL=E2=80=99ed in 2009, and none of the Novell.com links in the doc wor=
k, nor is there anything obvious to replace them with. Is it time to drop a=
ll of the Netware stuff? If not, is there someone who can work with me to m=
ake this document correspond with current reality?<br>
&gt; <br>
&gt; I think it&#39;s long-abandoned and anything along the spectrum of rem=
ove<br>
&gt; or replace with placeholder is fine.<br>
<br>
Not sure what the way forward is here. It certainly appears that this modul=
e is unmaintained, and probably nobody is using it. Is it time to call a fo=
rmal vote to deprecate/retire/remove this module?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Given that Netware EOL&#39;ed in 2009 =
I suggest to drop support for Netware in APR.</div><div><br></div><div>How =
does it sound?</div></div><div></div><br><span class=3D"gmail_signature_pre=
fix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature">Ivan Zhakov</=
div></div>

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