suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Jeroen Janssen <je...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Seeing that the vote for couchdb 1.0.2 is ongoing at the moment (and
related to me being a win32 user of couchdb), I was wondering who will
check couchdb 1.0.2 building correctly on the win32 platform?

More general: is there a list of all the 'official' supported
platforms for couchdb and are they all tested as part of the voting
process?
Or is that done after the actual release by the downstream packagers
with the (small) chance that something does not build correctly on a
certain platform?

Anyway, I also wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have been
doing and I am really impressed by the quality standards.

Best regards,

Jeroen

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>]

On 24 Jan 2011, at 19:56, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

> On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> 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.
> 
> Hi Noah
> 
> I assume you don't mean "full time" as in job, but always available to
> work on releases. 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's required to do this?
> - what sort of testing remains to decide to change status of windows
> to supported?

Dave, thanks for offering help here. Noah outlined the first steps. I'm looking forward to your contributions :)

Cheers
Jan
-- 

> 
> A+
> Dave
> 
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Seeing that the vote for couchdb 1.0.2 is ongoing at the moment (and
>>> related to me being a win32 user of couchdb), I was wondering who will
>>> check couchdb 1.0.2 building correctly on the win32 platform?
>>> 
>>> More general: is there a list of all the 'official' supported
>>> platforms for couchdb and are they all tested as part of the voting
>>> process?
>>> Or is that done after the actual release by the downstream packagers
>>> with the (small) chance that something does not build correctly on a
>>> certain platform?
>>> 
>>> Anyway, I also wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have been
>>> doing and I am really impressed by the quality standards.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Jeroen
>> 
>> 

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>]

On 1 Feb 2011, at 17:31, Robert Newson wrote:

> It's only available to ASF members, afaik, which you'd be at the end
> of this process anyway.

Nitpick, "ASF committers" :)

http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles

Cheers
Jan
-- 


> 
> B.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <da...@muse.net.nz> wrote:
>> On 2 February 2011 04:53, Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Thanks Bob,
>> 
>> Cool, aah the joy of IRC & being in the right timezone.. so I'll get stuck in.
>> 
>> You mentioned this MSDN apache offer - is this something I can take
>> advantage of?
>> 
>> A+
>> Dave
>> 

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com>]

It's only available to ASF members, afaik, which you'd be at the end
of this process anyway.

B.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <da...@muse.net.nz> wrote:
> On 2 February 2011 04:53, Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks Bob,
>
> Cool, aah the joy of IRC & being in the right timezone.. so I'll get stuck in.
>
> You mentioned this MSDN apache offer - is this something I can take
> advantage of?
>
> A+
> Dave
>

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Dave Cottlehuber <da...@muse.net.nz>]

On 2 February 2011 04:53, Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Bob,

Cool, aah the joy of IRC & being in the right timezone.. so I'll get stuck in.

You mentioned this MSDN apache offer - is this something I can take
advantage of?

A+
Dave

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com>]

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 <ro...@gmail.com> 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 <ns...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On 23 Jan 2011, at 05:29, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Noah
>>>
>>> On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> 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.
>

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Robert Newson <ro...@gmail.com>]

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 <ns...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2011, at 05:29, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
>
>> Hi Noah
>>
>> On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> 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.

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org>]

On 23 Jan 2011, at 05:29, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

> Hi Noah
> 
> On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> 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.

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Dave Cottlehuber <da...@muse.net.nz>]

On 23 January 2011 06:46, Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org> 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.

Hi Noah

I assume you don't mean "full time" as in job, but always available to
work on releases. 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's required to do this?
- what sort of testing remains to decide to change status of windows
to supported?

A+
Dave

>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seeing that the vote for couchdb 1.0.2 is ongoing at the moment (and
>> related to me being a win32 user of couchdb), I was wondering who will
>> check couchdb 1.0.2 building correctly on the win32 platform?
>>
>> More general: is there a list of all the 'official' supported
>> platforms for couchdb and are they all tested as part of the voting
>> process?
>> Or is that done after the actual release by the downstream packagers
>> with the (small) chance that something does not build correctly on a
>> certain platform?
>>
>> Anyway, I also wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have been
>> doing and I am really impressed by the quality standards.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jeroen
>
>

Re: suppoted platforms check of couchdb 1.0.2?

[Noah Slater <ns...@apache.org>]

There is no officially supported platform at the moment. Although it's important to stress that every release we've ever made has been tested on both Ubuntu/Debian and Mac OS X. 

Those should be two (three?) should be considered the de-facto platform. CouchDB does, however, run in many other places. We've had patches for Solarix, for example — and we apply them as and when they come in.

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.

On 22 Jan 2011, at 10:53, Jeroen Janssen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Seeing that the vote for couchdb 1.0.2 is ongoing at the moment (and
> related to me being a win32 user of couchdb), I was wondering who will
> check couchdb 1.0.2 building correctly on the win32 platform?
> 
> More general: is there a list of all the 'official' supported
> platforms for couchdb and are they all tested as part of the voting
> process?
> Or is that done after the actual release by the downstream packagers
> with the (small) chance that something does not build correctly on a
> certain platform?
> 
> Anyway, I also wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have been
> doing and I am really impressed by the quality standards.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jeroen