I signed up to the MSDN offer from the ASF. One thing I'd like to use it for is to get CouchDB working on Windows a bit better, though it's not my main reason for signing up.
If it turns out to be a manageable amount of work, who knows, but I'll definitely put some time into making it suck less. B. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 Jan 2011, at 05:29, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: > >> Hi Noah >> >> On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Our Windows support is still in testing, and until we have a full time RM >>> who can test and co-ordinate with the release team, it will remain that way. >> >> I assume you don't mean "full time" as in job, but always available to >> work on releases. > > Nope. > > But if we had one, they would have said "Hey, *I'm* the full time Windows > RM..." > >> I'm happy to do this if my skills are sufficient. >> I'd love to be a fulltime CouchDB RM but I assume nobody pays for >> this! >> >> - what do you need? >> - what sort of testing remains to decide to change status? > > Not sure. > > There have been a few other people work on this in the past. The source has, > I understand, a rudimentary Windows build system in place. I would say that > the best way forward would be to get to grips with what is already there, and > have a think about how to improve it. If anyone knows of any outstanding > issues, or whatever, then place speak up. > > At some point, when you were happy with the build, we would ask you to make a > parallel release with the main RM team. I guess at that point, it would > become official. Not sure. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.
