On Apr 3, 2008, at 17:08, Ted Leung wrote:
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.
So you say we should write more with less words? :)
I could add that we waited for our mentors and eventually set up
infrastructure. There's not a lot more that actually did happen[1]
(anyone, please correct me if I am wrong). Should the first report
include a more detailed description of CouchDB for the benefit of the
board?
[1]: Possible things to mention: The fancypants branch, build system
improvements, discussion about fulltext indexing.
(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.
Ok: IANAL and have generally no insight into any of that. Damien, can
you clarify?
Anything else we need? You are a bit vague with your request :)
Cheers
Jan
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