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Apache Comes With Too Much Community Overhead?

Posted by Zonk on from the many-hands-make-light-work dept.

drizzle writes "There's an interesting story on the Apache Marketing blog about whether or not Apache projects come with too much overhead, especially compared with other services or a roll-your-own approach. The article states, 'It's true that compared with SourceForge, Apache has a more rigorous management structure. The ASF has formalized processes and procedures that we believe represent best practices governance. All new projects must pass through an incubation period to ensure that all of the project's members have internalized these processes. However, each project's leadership has a tremendous amount of discretion in managing within this framework.' There is also a follow up article written by one of the httpd developers about 'What Apache brings to the table.' The article cites community, experience, legal framework, diversity, brand strength, and networking as reasons why developers and companies should consider bringing their projects over to Apache."

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  1. Tell me about it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just setup an Apache web server for use at home, and now I've got 4 Apache developers living in my basement. When they showed up, they said they were my Apache community overhead and I had to let them stay there. Oh, and I apparently have to feed them too!

    1. Re:Tell me about it by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's nothing, I installed Linux and now I've got a colony of penguins living in my freezer.

      I'm dreading the upgrade to BSD.

      --
      liqbase :: faster than paper
    2. Re:Tell me about it by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm dreading the upgrade to BSD.

      Don't Be

  2. Everyone missed the boat... by }InFuZeD{ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Out of curiousity, did any of the above posters actually read the article? Or even the Slashdot post?

    This isn't about Apache's Web Server at all. It's about the Apache foundation, and running projects with them. Apache's web server is just an example of a project that is run under the Apache Foundation... and any bloat / hard configuration in httpd has little to do with Apache Foundation's "overhead".

  3. But what have they done recently? by penguin-collective · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes, Apache 1.x is enormously popular. But that's not where the work in the Apache project has gone recently; recently, they have been working on Apache 2.x, XML-related projects, and lots of other projects. Are you using any of those more recent projects? How much impact have those projects actually had? And is the amount of effort that has gone into them justified by their impact?