Comment 5 for bug 423872

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Scott Kitterman<email address hidden> wrote:
> Next question: Why can't this wait for Karmic +1?

Here are (somewhat repeated) the benefits:

1) Karmic conincides better with the availability of 256MB VPS
servers, 'cloud'. I performed searches with twitter and google, for
users who are trying to install FPM. The demand seems to have gone up
significantly over the last 2 month. It seems there is a real demand
ramping up for this package.

2) We would loose momentum / harder to pick up again. As packager for
FPM I believe there's no further to do on the php5-fpm (so over the
next window) it would be a shame to catch the maximum delay, and also
have little or no improvement to show for it.

3) Ubuntu can be proud to have the latest / best PHP ahead of other
Linux distributions (yet again). This particular PHP is the best
best-in-class for effeciency, speed, performance. A good way to think
of it is like the difference between the apache and nginx webservers.

4) Genuinely there seems to be a growing and strong demand for fpm
(wheras a declining demand for the others like fcgi and apache).

5) From the other side of the coin, we can ride that wave and build
momentum (rather than be loosing it) with the legitimate user base. It
really makes for a core / essential component to the ubuntu-server
distribution. Overall it may be worthwhile to consider prioitizing
this package rather than to delay its widespread availability.

6) We expect there to be a continuing demand for a php server
solution, many big projects use it. Timelines aside, this demand
exists as much for Karmic equally as for any future ubuntu release
coming after it. We appreciate that this packaging request comes after
the official deadline. Apologies, but here to help these efforts any
way we can.

Best regards,

dreamcat4
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