Re: civetweb upstream/downstream divergence

[Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com>]

On 29-10-15 10:19, Nathan Cutler wrote:
> Hi Ceph:
> 
> The civetweb code in RGW is taken from https://github.com/ceph/civetweb/
> which is a fork of https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb. The last commit
> to our fork took place on March 18.
> 
> Upstream civetweb development has progressed ("This branch is 19 commits
> ahead, 972 commits behind civetweb:master.")
> 
> Are there plans to rebase to a newer upstream version or should we think
> more in terms of backporting (to ceph/civetweb.git) from upstream
> (civetweb/civetweb.git) when we need to fix bugs or add features?
> 

I think it would be smart to keep tracking civetweb from upstream
otherwise we forked Civetweb.

We might run into some issues with Civetweb which we need to fix
upstream, that's a lot easier if we are close to where upstream is.

Wido

> Thanks and regards
>