Hello everyone...

I would like to volunteer any amount of time needed to get Hans's changes folded into the main repository and/or get the development version moving forward and more accessible. I am working on a startup that is currently using hunchentoot and, as chance may have it, I am right about now going to be digging into hunchentoot and friends as part of a performance and understanding push.

Currently the BKNR repository is down, but once it gets back up I would like to set up a git repository of flexi-streams, hunchentoot, chunga, and drakma and I invite anyone that wishes to help contribute to this effort.

I am most interested in figuring out and testing the performance characteristics of the libraries with respects to threading/non-threading, select/epoll, and proxy/no-proxy on SBCL and am most willing to put in the time and effort to develop and test these different scenarios.

Thanks to everyone.

Peace,
Will

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Hans Huebner for his kindly helps and Edi Weitz for his
> uninterest in any effort.

Volkan,

If you think you're somehow entitled to an immediate reply or any
action from me just because you sent a patch that is "not well tested"
and "doesn't include any documentation", you're obviously living on a
different planet or at least you don't know what it means to have a
job and a family in addition to taking care of more than a dozen open
source libraries in your spare time.  I might look at these patches if
and when I find the time to work on Hunchentoot again or I might not.
If that's not acceptable to you, the license on all of my libs always
allows you to fork them and basically do with them whatever you want.

For those of you who wonder why Hunchentoot and some other libraries
have been in limbo for quite some time now, here's a quick
explanation: A company paid Hans to make a couple of additions to
Hunchentoot which are now in the bknr.net repository.  I also worked
on this a bit in my spare time and added some code, mainly for
performance improvements.  The good thing is that due to Hans' work
the development version is much improved in several aspects over the
current release.  The bad thing is that due to Hans' and my changes
the dev versions of Hunchentoot, Chunga, and Drakma have to be
released together, because they are mutually incompatible with the
released versions.  And, for them to become acceptable (for me)
release versions, there's a certain amount of clean-up and
documentation needed that still has to be done.

Now, the deal with the afore-mentioned company was that they would pay
Hans and me to do this clean-up and integration work so that we once
again have "official" release versions that are feature-wise in sync
with the current dev versions.  This hasn't happened so far, and right
now I fail to see why I should spend a significant amount of my spare
time to do this clean-up work when I have more interesting things to
do.  /Maybe/, this will happen in the future (paid or unpaid), or
maybe there'll at some point just be another Hunchentoot release based
on 0.15.7 and the dev changes will be lost.  Until then, I think the
current release isn't perfect, but certainly something that can be
used (and is used) without significant problems.

Cheers,
Edi.

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