Make our nitpicking and complaining guys happy:
Added the mod_rewrite `URL Rewriting Guide' to the online documentation (htdocs/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html). This paper provides a large collection of practical solutions to URL based problems a webmaster is often confronted with. This version of the text was translated from my WML source on my website and my old official version is now discarded. So, as it was requested, this can be treated as an official donation of this text to the ASF. This way the ASF is now the official owner of this text. - - - <IRONIC> Be happy and give Ken and Jim the credit for achieving this by being such sensitive and friendly to other developers like me and always reminding us that it is such contemptuous to implicitly promote ones name by writing free software and contributing to projects like Apache. Sorry that I have forgotten to donate this piece of text to the ASF in the past and instead added such a contemptible hyperlink directing to a page on www.engelschall.com. I hope this is now fixed and the closed and holy ASF world is rescued again. </IRONIC> <PERSONAL> I think, I don't have to say that I'm more than angry and disappointed how developers like me are constantly bashed in the ASF... we can go for it also in the future, but we should stop looking astonished all the time if we find out that too less people contribute to the ASF and old developers like me no longer have a warm feeling here, please. It's our own fault in thinking that contributions are for free and anonymous just because our project is a group effort. IMHO we already have forgotten the golden rule of Open Source development: if one wants happy and long-term contributing developers one especially has to make sure they receive the requested credit. There is an upper limit a project can accept to give, of course. But credit always has to depend on the amount, quality _and_ duration of contribution and IMHO cannot be judged by stating that just all people are equal and so some contributors can be bashed for the fact that their name occurs more often. It is correct that my name occurs more often caused by the fact that I always try to bring in my stuff to the project. But keep in mind that this is because I _HAVE_ stuff to bring in which I've created _OUTSIDE_ the project. So I think its unfair to bash me just because I try harder to bring in my additional stuff. If a developer has not much externally created stuff, he cannot bring it in to the project, of course. But just because one has more externally created stuff and tries to bring it in, is IMHO no reason and excuse to bash him for this. It's not my fault that I write in my freetime more Open Source packages like most of you. So if you dislike stuff developers want to bring in, decide on the contribution based on fair technical arguments (pros and cons). But don't judge the contributions all the time just because you think this way you "promote" someone (be it RSE, GNU or whoever else). Hell, an Open Source project is not a group of people to rule their own closed world and be celebrated in the press for this. It's still an effort to create the best piece of _software_ money can't buy. So you should stop thinking about contributors as our enemy. They are the main driving force of every project, although some people seem to not understand this at all. And whatever you think about my personal opinion, but IMHO it's not bad for a project if someone's name is "promoted" with it, too. What is actually bad are those complains and discussions which make developers angry and the fact that they result in even less contributions. </PERSONAL> git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x@84410 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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