On 26 November 2010 21:19, Filipe David Manana <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:02 PM, till <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How often does it happen that CouchDB has to patch/modify software >> like Mochiweb? And what are the chances to push the patches to >> upstream prior to releasing CouchDB. I realize this could slow down >> the release process, but it would make a cleaner build. > > With ibrowse it happened very often lately. > Sometimes serious bugs take weeks or months to get applied (yeah, it's > not just bug reports, it's bug report + patch). Like for e.g: > > https://github.com/cmullaparthi/ibrowse/issues#issue/20 (not yet applied) > https://github.com/cmullaparthi/ibrowse/issues/closed#issue/17 > https://github.com/cmullaparthi/ibrowse/issues/closed#issue/7 >
Fair point. The only reason it takes so long is that I like to aggregate a few changes into a new release. I was under the impression that CouchDB maintained its own private copy. If that is not the case, and you depend on the official release, I will try and incorporate patches faster. cheers Chandru
