No objections to couchdb-lucene being a subproject at all. I'll let others chime in on the merit of subprojects in general.
B. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Benoit Chesneau<bchesn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/8/14 Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org>: >> Many Apache projects have sub-projects, for two good example see: >> >> http://hadoop.apache.org/ which has 9 sub-projects >> >> http://lucene.apache.org/ which has 10 >> >> I think one benefit of having sub-projects is broadening the >> community. I think it also helps to give people looking at CouchDB for >> the first time an easier way to see some of the really cool tools and >> libraries it's offers. >> >> Also, I think it sounds relaxing. Being able to keep an eye on a more >> of the Apache-licensed CouchDB ecosystem in one repository I think >> will result in stronger code. >> >> I'd like to see a few projects out there become sub-projects, and >> maybe there are others we should include as well. Here's a list of 3: >> >> The CouchDB-Lounge project provides a CouchDB clustering via a smart >> HTTP proxy. I can see bringing that code in, and using it as a >> scaffold for our Erlang clustering infrastructure. If we do it right, >> deployments will have wide flexibility over which tools to use to >> scale CouchDB, being able to mix, say, CouchDB-Lounge's consistent >> hashing nginx-proxy for document CRUD, but use Erlang view merger or >> other cluster-optimized view engine. If someone is already a heavy >> nginx shop, but doesn't want to merge views in twisted python, they >> could see benefits to a mix and match architecture. >> >> Informally I asked Kevin Ferguson of CouchDB-Lounge if they'd be >> interested and he said it sounds great. >> >> CouchApp is a set of scripts to make deploying CouchDB design >> documents easy. I've been involved in it for a while, and Benoit has >> put a lot of time into it. The tool and the JavaScript framework it >> goes with are starting to have a community, and should gain more >> interest when the O'Reilly book goes to press. Benoit Chesneau is >> excited about bringing CouchApp into the CouchDB project. >> >> CouchDB-Lucene is another good candidate. I haven't asked Robert >> Newson yet what he thinks about it, but I think the project would be a >> good fit. >> >> There may be more candidates I'm missing, or maybe people will think >> I'm batty for having the idea in the first place... comments welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> -- >> Chris Anderson >> http://jchrisa.net >> http://couch.io >> > > Having Couchapp as a CouchDB subproject would be great. Imho using > apache infrastructure for bugs and release process is good for users > and developpers. Also since couchapp and other projects mentionned > here are dependant on couchdb and sometimes require changes/evolution > from CouchDB I think it's good to have all of them together. > > So yest, that should be good! :) > > -benoit >
