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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Thomas Krichel wrote: > Requiring an upfront healthy community is particurly problematic is > a small community such as digital library work. > > On the other kind, there is widely adopted software that I got > cajoled into maintaining, that consider bad. Apache is one of > them. I run maybe 50 virtual servers an a bunch of boxes, I am still > puzzled how it works and it's trial and error with each software > upgrade, where goes that NameVirtualServer thing into, the constant > croaks "server foo has no virtualserver". I'm not a dunce, but > Apache makes me feel I am one. When I look at these config files > that are half-baked XML, I wonder what weed the guy smoked who > invented this. > > If I could do it allover again, I would do it in lighttpd. Oh well > it was not there in 1995 where I started running web servers. > > Other problematic case: Mailman. I run about 130 mailing lists, over > 80 have a non-standard config, I am running every few months into > problems with onne of them, despite the fact that I wrote a script > to configure all the non-standard lists the same way. Even if they don't have specific forums, if they're more widely adopted software, you might have luck with well populated, but more generic forums: programming related: http://stackoverflow.com/ server administration: http://serverfault.com/ other IT stuff: http://superuser.com/ I admit that I haven't specifically asked any questions about Apache or Mailman, though. -Joe