Niall,
thanks for your feedback.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 01:53, Niall Pemberton wrote:
I haven't been following CouchDB but a PMC of five seems small - you
only have to loose a couple of people and you're on the verge of not
being a viable project. I took a look through the lists and from what
I can see CouchDB entered incubation with four committers in February
(the proposal listed six, but apparently was a mistake[1]) and has
added one new person just over a month ago[2].
I know theres been a push to get projects to graduate, but IMO CouchDB
would benefit from growing its community a bit more first.
We (informally, again :) decided to hold back a release and adding more
committers in favour of doing the graduation first (just to not have
three
things running at the same time. While our software is highly
concurrent,
we aren't :)
The general feel with the project is that we are rather gaining
contributors
than losing them. That does not really address the concern of a 5-person
PMC being small (the documented prime-example board resolutions have
8-10). Again, we (devs, community, mentors) think we are a healthy and
growing project and I wonder if a 5-person PMC would be a show stopper?
Also, since there have been two releases while here, I assume all the
due-dilligence has been completed, but the status page[3] has not been
completed to reflect that - so if you do go for graduation it would be
nice if that was updated first.
Ted, I patched the couchdb.xml project file (http://friendpaste.com/ebk8csvC
)
and updated the committer & mentor lists; can you commit? In addition,
it looks
that some of the dates in the "work items" section are missing. How to
go about
these?
Cheers
Jan
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Niall
[1] http://couchdb.markmail.org/message/my725uiourw25qnm
[2] http://couchdb.markmail.org/message/hzge6ofddnknhqby
[3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/couchdb.html
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Incubator General List,
The community and developers of Apache CouchDB deem
the project ready for graduation to a top level Apache project.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] vote summary:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-couchdb-dev/200810.mbox/[EMAIL
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Message IDs for informal(*) PPMC vote to appoint Damien Katz to
become
"Vice President, CouchDB":
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(* Sorry we didn't to a formal vote and hence no formal [RESULT]
message)
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We would like to ask the IPMC to discuss the following Board
resolution to
be
recommended to the Board. Once your feedback is collected and
integrated,
we will ask you to vote on the final resolution. Thank you!
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Proposed Board Resolution:
Establish the Apache CouchDB project
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best
interests of the Foundation and consistent with the
Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management
Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of
open-source software implementing a distributed, fault-
tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database for
distribution at no charge to the public.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management
Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache CouchDB Project",
be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the
Foundation; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Apache CouchDB Project be and hereby is
responsible for the creation and maintenance of software
related to implementing a distributed, fault-tolerant and
schema-free document-oriented database; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, CouchDB" be and
hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at
the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the
Apache CouchDB Project, and to have primary responsibility for
management of the projects within the scope of responsibility
of the Apache CouchDB Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and
hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the
Apache CouchDB Project:
* J Chris Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Damien Katz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Christopher Lenz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Jan Lehnardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
* Noah Slater ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Damien
Katz be appointed to the office of Vice President, CouchDB, to
serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board
of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death,
resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until
a successor is appointed; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache CouchDB Project be and hereby
is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to
encourage open development and increased participation in the
CouchDB Project; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the initial Apache CouchDB Project be and hereby
is tasked with the migration and rationalization of the Apache
Incubator CouchDB podling; and be it further
RESOLVED, that all responsibility pertaining to the Apache
Incubator CouchDB podling encumbered upon the Apache Incubator
PMC are hereafter discharged.
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Again, thanks for your cooperation!
For the Apache CouchDB PPMC,
Jan
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PS: Thanks to Noah Slater for proofreading.
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