Bug#1063916: RFP: freenginx -- a fork of nginx maintained by Maxim Dounin and the development community
Is there *any* point on packaging this nginx fork this early?
We don't yet know the bus factor (i.e. uptake of the fork, size of core team, etc) of this fork yet. We don't know how the dynamics with the F5-controlled ngnix project will play out re. cross-merges, security issues (which are very likely to be the same for both projects for quite a while given the shared code), etc.
If nginx and freenginx diverge too much on functionality, it might make sense to have both in Debian. If they do not, we more likely should stick with either one, but not both (and it is way too early to even guess which one would make sense to stick to)...
There are other potential issues as well, it is best to wait a couple months at the very least.
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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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