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 <kxe...@gmail.com> 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. >
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