On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Heya Ted,
On Mar 31, 2008, at 19:40 , Ted Leung wrote:
Ok folks,
The automated reminder system (Marvin) just sent out the notices
asking for board reports for the April board meeting. We missed
the March report, so we really need to get our act together and put
together a report this time. Once Noel creates the appropriate
page, we can put our report there. For examples of reports, see: <http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/March2008
>.
I am not quite sure who you addressing here, that is, who's
responsible to do what now, but since you've sent this to -dev, I
guess we all are :-)
Yes, hopefully someday relatively soon, stuff like this will not be
the job of the mentor, but the community itself. So consider this
practice. :-)
Here's a draft. I have never done this before and looking at the
examples you linked to, it might be a bit verbose. Feel free
(anyone) to edit the draft in any way. I am in no way attached to
what compiled here:
We missed a report for one month, so we have more stuff to say (we are
suppposed to report every month for the 1st 3 months of incubation,
and then settle into a 3 month rotation thereafter. Once we
graduate, we'll also be on a 3 month rotation). Keep in mind that
the board has a stack of these reports to read, so tighter is better.
(For the sake of readability, I ommitted any wiki markup)
CouchDB
IPMC Reviews:
CouchDB is a distributed document database written in Erlang. The
project entered incubation on February 12th, 2008.
The infrastructure (SVN, JIRA, mailing lists etc) have been set up
and the team started moving source and documentation from their
former homes to the ASF.
Work on CouchDB that has begun earlier is being continued and
committed to the new repository. This includes a major refactoring
and subsequent simplification of the core code base (-500 (ca. 10%)
LOC) and its modularisation. The storage and view engines are now
separate entities that can be worked on independently. This was done
in preparation for the upcoming database compaction feature, which
is in its final stages of development.
At the same time, the mochiweb branch is very active, entirely
driven by Christopher Lenz. The goal of this branch is to replace
the Erlang/OTP inets HTTP server with the more appropriate Mochiweb
package. This is still work in progress, but at the moment, more
than half of our test suite succeeds.
Noah Slater's been active to review, move and convert the contents
of http://couchdbwiki.com, the former home of the CouchDB
documentation to the ASF provided MoinMoin installation. That
includes the setup of human readable redirects and the development
of a set of mod_rewrite rules that still need to be set up.
Damien Katz is sill fighting the current host of the couchdb.*
domains to successfully redirect to our new virtual homes.
The IBM software grant that is required for Damien Katz's code
contributions is reportedly on file with the ASF.
Well, we have Damien's grant. I don't believe IBM has anything to
say about CouchDB, although they may now have something to say about
his current work since he is employed there. I think there's a
question about whether IBM's CCLA needs updating to cover Damien in
this regard.
Ted
