Re: Is the fastcgi project dead?

Hi Folks,

One way to measure the health of projects such as
fastcgi is to look at the volume and quality of
list server activity.

A few weeks ago, I came to fastcgi as a complete
novice and had a question or two, sent email to
this very list, and had absolutely no response.

Maybe that's ok with esoteric, secret organization,
but a public domain software project needs new-
comers and their interest should be fostered to
some extent.

Am I the only one who feels the project is almost
dead?  I doubt it.

There are ways to rejuvenate energy and interest.
I feel little is done.

Regards,

Tena Sakai
[email protected]


-----Original Message-----
From: fastcgi-developers-bounces+tsakai=gallo.ucsf.edu-VYFNfGabXYtBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org on behalf of David Birnbaum
Sent: Tue 9/18/2007 1:45 PM
To: Bill Snapper
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] Is the fastcgi project dead?
 
You have no idea....

It's kinda amazing how much people depend on it, and it just quietly runs (we 
use it for almost all of our web deployment, including a lot of PHP).  I guess 
that's a good thing that it needs so little care and feeding.

Maybe those non-Apache users can round up a team leader to update all of the 
relevant documentations and how-tos so people know it exists.

David.

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On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Bill Snapper wrote:

> It's not dead.  It just smells funny :-)
>
> Sorry, I couldn't resist.  Actually, I am one of the creators of
> FastCGI and I am amazed and pleased to see it has had a life of its
> own more than 10 years after I released it back at Open Market.
>
> It seems to get used quite a bit for Ruby and PHP deployments for the
> process isolation aspect as well as for some load balancing
> applications.
>
> Hopefully the community will continue to grow it and maintain it if
> there is indeed a need.
>
> Best,
>
> -Bill
>
>
> Quoting Sam Vilain <sam-s9IUA/[email protected]>:
>
>> Liyu,She wrote:
>>> I notice that the website and source code remains almost the same as
>>> it was 3 years ago. Does it mean that the fastcgi project is dying? I
>>> am a big fan of fastcgi and I am a bit worried. Could somebody answer
>>> me, please?
>>> Looking forward to your opinions. I'll appreciate that.
>>
>> Not really going away.  Just /very stable/ :-)
>>
>> IMHO it's experiencing a little renaissance from certain crowds looking
>> to break away from mod_*, eg PHP users plugging into lighttpd.  Also
>> frameworks like Catalyst (perl) recommend it and I think ruby uses it
>> easily too.  For non-Apache web servers it's the lingua franca of how to
>> talk to a dynamic back-end.
>>
>> Sam.
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