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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Apache2
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

I wouldn't worry about the EXPERIMENTAL label, but rather whether the PHP's 
Apache 2 interface works for you and if there are any bug reports that may 
affect you. Personally, I do not yet see a reason to switch to Apache 2 from 
Apache 1, but that's just me. Comparatively speaking, Apache 1 PHP interface 
has been used & developed for several years, while Apache 2 interface 
(current implementation) is less then a year old. Every release we fix 
several bugs, which at least in part responsible for it's EXPERIMENTAL 
status.

>Is this the responsibility of the PHP QA team?  

QA team is a very small group of people who work very hard at solving bugs, 
but time constraits and the scale task do not allow us to cover everything. 
Priority is given to commonly used extensions and configuration. As far as I 
am concerned Apache 2 is not as high on the priority list as Apache 1 or 
MySQL, etc...

> Can users help out with testing?

Definitely, try PHP releases as they come out, especially the Release 
Candidates (RC) and report any bugs that you find. If you can suggest a patch 
to the problem, even better :).

> Redhat apparently feels
> confident enough to include Apache 2 (and PHP4) in their upcoming Redhat
> Enterprise 3 product
> (http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon/en/as/i386/RELEASE-NOTE
>S -en), so I assume that at least they have tested it.

Redhat released a beta compiler despite warnings from developers of said 
compiler.

Ilia