Dave, My last comment on the thread notwithstanding, it would be *awesome* if you wanted to step and help bring CouchDB on Windows to production quality.
B. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
