-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi Nuno, hi Robert,
I think this is a very good idea and I want to support this. As a contributor and regular user of nano I am familar with the project and its code base. I would love to continue to be part of the nano maintaining team and I am willing to continue development under the ASF. Yeah, Johannes On 23.01.2015 15:44, Robert Kowalski wrote: > Hi Nuno, > > wow that sounds great! For me nano is _the_ Node.js library > regarding CouchDB. > > I really like the idea of nano being a part of the CouchDB project > for several reasons: > > - the projects would cross-pollinate each other more than they do > currently - the CouchDB project would eat more of their own dog > food - more people working on CouchDB related topics in the ASF - > even more JS folks in #couchdb-dev and the project > > I would suggest to offer nano separate from our database releases > as the current release cycle is ~2 releases / year. > > I also have a concern: > > We already have a jquery client library > (https://github.com/apache/couchdb-jquery-couch - this got > extracted from the old futon in 1.x), sadly we are currently quite > limited in our resources and don't have time to properly maintain > it. I am afraid this could happen also to nano because you > mentioned that you don't have time for the nano project. One way to > avoid this is that we search for new maintainers. > > Does nano currently have other maintainers next to you? What do you > think regarding our limited resources? Do you have ideas for > building a nano team already? > > Best, Robert > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Robert Keizer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I use nano and CouchDB every day, both for work and personal >> projects. >> >> I would love to see nano become part of the ASF under the CouchDB >> flag. I think standardizing libraries for various languages would >> be a great benefit to CouchDB itself. >> >> Just my two cents as a developer / sysadmin using both. >> >> >> On 2015-01-22 5:03 AM, Nuno Job wrote: >>> Hi Alexander, >>> >>> Responses inline: >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Alexander Shorin >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> - Why do you want to contribute these projects? >>>> >>> The main motivation is just to help CouchDB. When I started >>> these projects they were an hobby. These days there's enough >>> use in nano's part to justify a closer, more organized >>> attention. My lack of commitment to the project is not >>> helping. >>> >>> Personal reasons: None. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> - What's your expectation on their life under CouchDB flag? >>>> >>> None, anything is better than current. Just trying to help, but >>> as for the whole project I have no stakes in it. I love couchdb >>> as a user, and I think it will continue this way. >>> >>> >>> >>>> - How your contribution will improve CouchDB user >>>> experience? >>>> >>> I believe having a standard way to connect to CouchDB would be >>> extremely beneficial: WE have came far enough that the >>> requirements are well understood and libraries that have been >>> around for a while include most fixes that companies use in >>> production. The second reason is progress: >>> >>> (1) nano could natively support multiple versions of couch by >>> defining the version of the compatible api you want to connect >>> (2) nano could easily support extensions for apis like >>> cloudant (3) nano could easily support the browser >>> >>> however this requires effort and dedication to maintence. Both >>> things I can't do in my free time and the project would be much >>> more suited to do. >>> >>> As for futoncli, it just seems like a nice feature to deliver >>> for folks that use couch. It's pretty complete and has `raw` >>> mode, hence people can even script with it. If it was delivered >>> by default, people could easily create easier shell scripts >>> with couch on any installation. >>> >>> >>>> - Don't your fear that this will hurt them? ASF has more >>>> strict rules on contributions and commit bits and also in >>>> CouchDB team there are not much nano/futoncli active >>>> contributors (anyone?) to continue their maintaining. >>>> >>> It's a valid point, but I'm completely out of it and I have no >>> opinion. To the best of my knowledge no contributor of nano is >>> a apache member. >>> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUwrWPAAoJED+W7gN+c0gc8e4IAIdYKk5V6D2fZp8HsruBQoUV uaRz6LSPDBcPIT4dS+eUtOjmq8oI1098KoBE3MANIfjMGCU4yjBSFEaaX9j+B/Du oSUV3kTF97P3FpIeZB0GbsRdlHK+nqBBAmurtNNAoWebDLINmMvPiFfLx7TiyZPo R4oRlS9jEOUNk81Tw6oiVzJi+E54ozY0eXibRQoNtEXRGJ/t2VGcMf58DK29Mu5c qMnqUyiwOcO9aTLSpBU87o2u3+AoAhAel1nce6+iAFp0ApBkQI7D9A28LC5Za4Vs TJe7dPWVb4OlciuNWYajka6bA39L3Ei3JQOTMx40vR19LSJuW04x7C9OsNGwKng= =Cjs4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
