On 06. November 2013 at 21:23:44, Eli Stevens (Gmail) ([email protected]) wrote: > > Hello all, > > My company is interested in getting a modern version of CouchDB > packaged up > for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. We don't have any in-house expertise, but > we're able > the sponsor the work needed to make this happen. I'm hoping that > we can > find someone who can accomplish this and is available for contract > work. > > The basic outline of what we're looking for is: > > - CouchDB 1.5 for 12.04 > - Resulting work / package contributed back to the community > - Erlang version, etc. is flexible (we don't depend on it directly) > - Upgrades cleanly from 1.2.1 with existing DBs > - Able to iterate with us if it doesn't Just Work in our environment > (unlikely, but possible) > > Ideally, the resulting work would enable packages to be easily > produced > per-release (similar to Jan's OSX binary builds), but I'm not > sure if we've > got the budget for a project of that scope. We're fine with a one-off > package for now. > > Is this something that's appropriate to discuss on this list?
Gotta talk about it somewhere Eli :-) I’ve replied privately, no doubt others will too. I would like to see proper rpms/debs available after each release, maybe this is enough of a prod to automate it all. A+ Dave
