Hi all, I would like to leave the technical bits discussion for Robert, Alex and others. But what I do want to say is a very big thank you. This is a great donation and I for sure would love to see a useful way to transfer nano to the CouchDB project. We have to sort out if that will work. Nevertheless - let alone that fact that you want to donate nano is simply awesome. Thank you!
:) Cheers Andy On 23 January 2015 at 15:44, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nuno, > > wow that sounds great! For me nano is _the_ Node.js library regarding > CouchDB. > > I really like the idea of nano being a part of the CouchDB project for > several reasons: > > - the projects would cross-pollinate each other more than they do > currently > - the CouchDB project would eat more of their own dog food > - more people working on CouchDB related topics in the ASF > - even more JS folks in #couchdb-dev and the project > > I would suggest to offer nano separate from our database releases as > the current release cycle is ~2 releases / year. > > I also have a concern: > > We already have a jquery client library > (https://github.com/apache/couchdb-jquery-couch - this got extracted > from the old futon in 1.x), sadly we are currently quite limited in > our resources and don't have time to properly maintain it. I am afraid > this could happen also to nano because you mentioned that you don't > have time for the nano project. One way to avoid this is that we > search for new maintainers. > > Does nano currently have other maintainers next to you? > What do you think regarding our limited resources? Do you have ideas > for building a nano team already? > > Best, > Robert > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Robert Keizer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use nano and CouchDB every day, both for work and personal projects. > > > > I would love to see nano become part of the ASF under the CouchDB flag. > > I think standardizing libraries for various languages would be a great > > benefit to CouchDB itself. > > > > Just my two cents as a developer / sysadmin using both. > > > > > > On 2015-01-22 5:03 AM, Nuno Job wrote: > >> Hi Alexander, > >> > >> Responses inline: > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> - Why do you want to contribute these projects? > >>> > >> The main motivation is just to help CouchDB. When I started these > projects > >> they were an hobby. These days there's enough use in nano's part to > justify > >> a closer, more organized attention. My lack of commitment to the > project is > >> not helping. > >> > >> Personal reasons: None. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> - What's your expectation on their life under CouchDB flag? > >>> > >> None, anything is better than current. Just trying to help, but as for > the > >> whole project I have no stakes in it. I love couchdb as a user, and I > think > >> it will continue this way. > >> > >> > >> > >>> - How your contribution will improve CouchDB user experience? > >>> > >> I believe having a standard way to connect to CouchDB would be extremely > >> beneficial: WE have came far enough that the requirements are well > >> understood and libraries that have been around for a while include most > >> fixes that companies use in production. The second reason is progress: > >> > >> (1) nano could natively support multiple versions of couch by defining > the > >> version of the compatible api you want to connect > >> (2) nano could easily support extensions for apis like cloudant > >> (3) nano could easily support the browser > >> > >> however this requires effort and dedication to maintence. Both things I > >> can't do in my free time and the project would be much more suited to > do. > >> > >> As for futoncli, it just seems like a nice feature to deliver for folks > >> that use couch. It's pretty complete and has `raw` mode, hence people > can > >> even script with it. If it was delivered by default, people could easily > >> create easier shell scripts with couch on any installation. > >> > >> > >>> - Don't your fear that this will hurt them? ASF has more strict rules > >>> on contributions and commit bits and also in CouchDB team there are > >>> not much nano/futoncli active contributors (anyone?) to continue their > >>> maintaining. > >>> > >> It's a valid point, but I'm completely out of it and I have no opinion. > To > >> the best of my knowledge no contributor of nano is a apache member. > >> > > > > > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
