Hi Yashin, Good timing to ask about this - we are just going into a release cycle atm and this would be a great opportunity to see how this works at present, vs how it could work!
I wonder if Alex or Dirkjan might be interested in co-mentoring this, I can take care of paperwork & stuff, but I'm not in a position to offer useful technical guidance as I'm not a pythoneer yet. If you're not already subscribed to dev@ please do, and check the archives[1],[2] for some relevant background, and the release pages on the wiki. You should try setting up the development environment as knowing how this works is a big help: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/DEVELOPERS . I recommend you stick with R15B03-1 or R14B04 if you've not installed erlang before, this will be the path of least resistance. If your OS doesn't have a suitable erlang built in, check ErlangSolutions[4]. For spidermonkey, use Cloudant's pre-built packages [5],[6], as the version matters to couchdb. [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail-archives.apache.org%2Fmod_mbox%2Fcouchdb+release [2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amail-archives.apache.org%2Fmod_mbox%2Fcouchdb+sphinx [3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:wiki.apache.org/couchdb+release [4]: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/downloads/download-erlang-otp [5]: http://bigcouch.cloudant.com/use [6]: http://packages.cloudant.com/ A+ Dave On 18 July 2013 03:04, Yashin Mehaboobe <yashin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dave, > I'm one of the students who participated for the Apache ICFOSS program > conducted by Luciano Resende. I was looking through the CouchDB projects and > found one interesting . It is the automated release process documentation > project at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1787?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel. > > I'd like to work on this project as part of the ICFOSS mentorship program. > Can you please be my mentor? I have worked extensively with Python and have > experience in using Sphinx. I hope to do this project by taking the rst file > and generating the various outputs from that file. I intend to create a > separate script for this task. > > Hoping for a positive reply! :) > > -- > - Yashin Mehaboobe >
