Updated README with current status.
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Copyright 2017 greenbytes GmbH
This repository contains `mod_md`, a module for Apache httpd that adds support for Let's Encrypt (and other ACME CAs).
-This code here is to help people review and comment and test before I bring it into the main Apache httpd repository. Issues you can raise here, general discussion is probably best at the httpd dev mailing list.
+This code here is to help people review and comment and test early versions. Issues you can raise here, general discussion is probably best at the httpd dev mailing list.
## Documentation
@@ -13,15 +13,18 @@ Look [on the wiki](https://github.com/icing/mod_md/wiki) for directions on how t
## Status
-***NEW***: the Apache2 PPA for ubuntu by @oerdnj, see [here](https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/apache2/+packages), has a patched ```mod_ssl``` just as ```mod_md``` needs it! Thanks! So, in such a server you just need to drop mod_md from here.
+The plan is to backport the module and all the neccessary patches into the next 2.4.x release of Apache httpd. That
+will be at least revision 2.4.30. And I will push for it to come out this year. Time will tell.
-***v0.4.0:*** I have tested that version on ubuntu 14.04 with the PPA from @oerdnj on my live server against the read Let's Encrypt service. The first green lock in the browser, managed by ```mod_md```. We're getting close!
+For the impatient and danger seekers: what you find here is a copy of what lives inside the Apache httpd ```trunk``` repository. While people find an occasional
+hickup - mostly due to some unique aspect in the setups - several people, incuding myself, are running this inside a patched
+2.4 Apache for months now. And successfully.
-What you find here are **early experience versions** for people who like living on the edge and want to help me test not yet released changes.
+However, this is not _checkout, configure and shoot_. For it to work, you need a patched mod_ssl (patch is provided in directory ```patches```), but that is about the only complication.
-This is not _checkout, configure and shoot_. For it to work, you need a patched mod_ssl (patch is provided in directory ```patches```), but that is about the only complication.
+ There is an ever expanding test suite included against a local [boulder](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder) server, using the excellent [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/). Also, thanks to Jacob Champion, we have unit tests available when [check](https://libcheck.github.io/check/) is installed.
-Also: this is not production ready, yet. There is an ever expanding test suite included against a local [boulder](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder) server, using the excellent [pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/). Also, thanks to Jacob Champion, we have unit tests available when [check](https://libcheck.github.io/check/) is installed.
+The Apache2 PPA for ubuntu by @oerdnj, see [here](https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/apache2/+packages), has a patched ```mod_ssl``` just as ```mod_md``` needs it! Thanks! So, in such a server you just need to drop mod_md from here.
### Test Status
