Hi PJ, I’m happy to help with the proposal in my position as a PouchDB maintainer.
If no other champion can be found, I can be a plan B, but I rather prefer someone else for the benefits outlined. Cheers Jan — > On 29. Jan 2025, at 18:33, PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Jan, > The role of champion is a short term position related to getting the > proposal together. As an ASF member, you are eligible to join the ASF > Incubator PMC and act as a mentor and champion. I think this would > make sense here because you are in a better position to put together > the proposal than a random member of the Incubator PMC. > I can act as a mentor if you are looking for mentors. > > Regards, > PJ > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 at 18:26, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Dear Incubator, >> >> I’m writing on behalf of the PouchDB[1] project. PouchDB is a >> sister-project to Apache CouchDB that has existed since 2010, >> albeit outside of the ASF. I’ve included more details below. >> >> PouchDB is looking to join the ASF as per a recent discussion[2] >> on the current project issue tracker. >> >> And as per The Apache Incubator Cookbook[3]: our next task is: >> >>> Finding a champion and mentors >> >> On behalf of the current PouchDB maintainers I am hereby soliciting >> volunteers to champion and mentor the PouchDB project at the ASF >> incubator. >> >> — >> >> PouchDB is a JavaScript reimplementation of Apache CouchDB’s APIs, >> data model and replication mechanism for running in a web browser. >> >> It is a popular deployment companion to Apache CouchDB and is used >> in many commercial, open-source and humanitarian projects around >> the world that require full offline-capable database access in web- >> based applications. >> >> The current maintainers would like to reflect the relative im- >> portance of PouchDB by joining the ASF to ensure, among other >> things, its longevity and transparency of development. >> >> Apache CouchDB as been a top-level project at the ASF since 2009 >> and it only makes sense to the maintainers PouchDB to follow along >> rather than, say, join a JavaScript specific foundation like the >> OpenJS Foundation. >> >> The PouchDB maintainers further prefer to be an independent project >> within the ASF rather than a sub-project to Apache CouchDB as the >> technologies and day-to-day operations as well as releases vary >> widely enough as to not burden the Apache CouchDB developers with >> the additional overhead. In previous private talks, various CouchDB >> members largely agree with this assessment. Where needed, the CouchDB >> and PouchDB maintainers have a proven track record of collaborating >> productively across organisational boundaries so that both sides >> feel a sub-project relationship not to be beneficial let alone >> required. >> >> — >> >> I am personally the PMC Chair for Apache CouchDB and while I am >> technically eligible for the champion position, I’d rather the >> rest of the PouchDB maintainers meet more ASF folks rather sooner >> than later. >> >> — >> >> Do let us know if you have any further questions, advice or other >> points of discussion. >> >> Best >> Jan >> — >> [1]: https://pouchdb.com <https://pouchdb.com/> >> [2]: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/8999 >> [3]: https://incubator.apache.org/cookbook >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
