Hey all, thanks for the responses. Based on those I am invoking Plan B and nominate myself as Champion, if the Incubator PMC will have me, with PJ and Jean-Baptiste as Mentors.
We’ll start work on the application. Thanks again Jan — > On 29. Jan 2025, at 18:25, 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
