Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
(warning, grumpy rant forthcoming...) On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Thoughts? It seems to me that a lot of this hinges on releases. Releases generate publicity and therefore developer interest, thus developer engagement. Releases make sure that work

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:04 , Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: (warning, grumpy rant forthcoming...) Dirkjan, understood, loud and clear. And I think we all agree with you :) In fact, we made a few changes to the way we manage the code and releases to improve all of that, but I think

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Agreed. Thanks for the honest feedback. Massively appreciated. I have been very frustrated with the 1.3.0 release. It was, and still is, supposed to be the first of our regular releases. Unfortunately, the release was mired with a raft of CVEs that came first, and then some thorny blockers. Not

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Newson
+1. We are conscious of our release process failings but it's great to see an uninhibited reminder like this. We're aiming for regular, frequent releases after this one, as Noah says. I want to see that process so regular that it becomes boring. You should come to expect that a fix is out within

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Davis
There's a lot of work that could be done to a lot of the internals of CouchDB to clean things up and put us back in a place where we can be quicker to innovate. 1. Rewrite the HTTP layer to not be a gobbledygook function call spiderweb for request dispatching. Whether we use something like

CouchDB admin repository

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Devs, We now have a new Git repository: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git The purpose of this repository will be for collecting scripts, and other sundry items, as needed by the PMC and the committers for the administration of the project. The repository is public.

Re: CouchDB admin repository

2013-03-07 Thread Randall Leeds
Clone from https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin.git On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Devs, We now have a new Git repository: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git The purpose of this repository will be for

git commit: Initial commit

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master [created] d110c3332 Initial commit Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/d110c333 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/tree/d110c333

[1/3] git commit: Email template tweeks

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Email template tweeks Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/04160c5f Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/tree/04160c5f Diff:

[2/3] git commit: Remove clipboard operations

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Remove clipboard operations Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/f5283339 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/tree/f5283339 Diff:

[3/3] git commit: Add license information

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master d110c3332 - 419d52ac3 Add license information Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/419d52ac Tree:

git commit: Copy and paste error, removed irrelevent licenses from LICENSE

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 419d52ac3 - b530ddcc8 Copy and paste error, removed irrelevent licenses from LICENSE Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/b530ddcc Tree:

git commit: Fix up license headers and add minimal documentation

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master b530ddcc8 - 02caf3639 Fix up license headers and add minimal documentation Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/02caf363 Tree:

git commit: Add vote_committer.txt template

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 02caf3639 - 4007779db Add vote_committer.txt template Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/4007779d Tree:

Re: CouchDB admin repository

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Mar 7, 2013, at 20:50 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Devs, We now have a new Git repository: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git The purpose of this repository will be for collecting scripts, and other sundry items, as needed by the PMC and the

Re: CouchDB admin repository

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
I figured we should leave commits@couchdb for changes to CouchDB. We were already sending wiki diffs, and dist dir changes to dev, so this seemed like a natural move. Again, this is just for a few admin scripts, email templates, etc. On 7 March 2013 21:06, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:

Re: 1.1.1 entry in CHANGES

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Can someone help me out with this please? (This is NOT blocking the release, I am just going through my task list.) Thanks, On 27 February 2013 19:41, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Devs, Can one of you see to the 1.1.1 entry in CHANGES please? (Please announce you're about to do

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Thanks for calling this to action Noah! My personal list for this year: -1. Get people excited to contribute to CouchDB. 0. Help remove roadblocks for any sort of contribution, docs, code, tests, bugs, whatever it takes. 1. A bunch of features that I’d like to rally some activity around, as

Re: CouchDB admin repository

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Mar 7, 2013, at 22:10 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: I figured we should leave commits@couchdb for changes to CouchDB. We were already sending wiki diffs, and dist dir changes to dev, so this seemed like a natural move. Again, this is just for a few admin scripts, email

Re: 1.1.1 entry in CHANGES

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
done. On Mar 7, 2013, at 22:13 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Can someone help me out with this please? (This is NOT blocking the release, I am just going through my task list.) Thanks, On 27 February 2013 19:41, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Devs, Can one of

Re: 1.1.1 entry in CHANGES

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Danke! On 7 March 2013 21:30, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: done. On Mar 7, 2013, at 22:13 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Can someone help me out with this please? (This is NOT blocking the release, I am just going through my task list.) Thanks, On 27 February

Click to confirm your Google Alert

2013-03-07 Thread Google Alerts
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PR news Google Alerts

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Devs, I have asked Sally to forward us any PR news about CouchDB. I've also just set up a weekly Google Alert for CouchDB that will post news to the dev list. Now, this might be a really terrible idea. But it might also be a really good idea. And I guess we won't know until we receive a few of

Re: PR news Google Alerts

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Okay, so the Google Alerts thing got cancelled. Thanks whoever that was! ;) Had a chat with Infra, and they don't like this sort of thing being sent to a list for exactly that reason. I will have them sent to me and just forward interesting bits for now. On 7 March 2013 21:33, Noah Slater

svn commit: r1528 - in /dev/couchdb: binary/ packages/ releases/ source/

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Author: nslater Date: Thu Mar 7 21:47:52 2013 New Revision: 1528 Log: Renaming to fit into new dist dir heirarchy Added: dev/couchdb/binary/ dev/couchdb/source/ Removed: dev/couchdb/packages/ dev/couchdb/releases/

svn commit: r1530 - /release/couchdb/KEYS

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Author: nslater Date: Thu Mar 7 21:52:39 2013 New Revision: 1530 Log: Update KEYS with new sigs Modified: release/couchdb/KEYS Modified: release/couchdb/KEYS == --- release/couchdb/KEYS (original) +++

git commit: Some incremental improvements

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 4007779db - 462dc2bda Some incremental improvements Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/462dc2bd Tree:

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Russell Branca
My goals right now for CouchDB are focused around how users interact with the system. Specifically, I want to see fauxton fully functional with a vibrant plugin ecosystem. The other big area is how users extend functionality of CouchDB with javascript. I think the first big step is switching to

git commit: Add tag_candidate.sh and fix up other files

2013-03-07 Thread nslater
Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 462dc2bda - c718864a6 Add tag_candidate.sh and fix up other files Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb-admin/commit/c718864a Tree:

[PROPOSAL] New release procedure

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Hello devs, I would like to propose a new release procedure: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Release_Procedure This proposal will pass on lazy consensus, so speak up if you want to object. How this differs from the old release procedure: 1) Code level tests (CLI, etap, etc) have been removed.

Re: [PROPOSAL] New release procedure

2013-03-07 Thread Wendall Cada
On 03/07/2013 05:42 PM, Noah Slater wrote: Hello devs, I would like to propose a new release procedure: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Release_Procedure This proposal will pass on lazy consensus, so speak up if you want to object. How this differs from the old release procedure: 1) Code

Re: [PROPOSAL] New release procedure

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
It means that the only testing that I will do before calling a vote on the candidate will be basic build system tests. Once the candidate is published and vote has started, I will download the candidate and test it properly along with everyone else. Please remember that I will be calling a

Re: PR news Google Alerts

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Davis
Not sure it'll make the Google alert threshold, but I got Bob to the bowling alley: http://twitter.com/davisp/status/309824109905321984 Hooray midwest! On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Okay, so the Google Alerts thing got cancelled. Thanks whoever that was!