On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 12:30, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > I became involved in the last few months in the Catacomb effort > (http://www.webdav.org/catacomb). For those of you who don't know this > project, it's all about building a mod_dav plugin/provider that, using a > RDBMS as a backend, provides some advanced WebDAV features such as DASL > and DeltaV. > > The project started as a UCSC research project but it does have a good > deal of external contributors as well. It's, community wise, still a bit > in its infancy, expecially from the governance POV, but the codebase is > OK, at least as a starting point. > > Since when I started working with it, I thought that Catacomb could be a > very good addition for the httpd folks: IMHO it's the typical win-win > situation, where Apache gains knowleadgeble folks in a very important > area as well as a pretty robust codebase with cool features and Catacomb > gets much more visibility (and outside help, and diffusion, and all the > yadda-yadda...). > > This said, and after having reached consensus on the Catacomb mailing > list, I've started to consider how to move forward, and this is why I'm > requiring your assistence. The first and foremost question is > understanding whether Catacomb should really undergo the incubation > process: it's a small and pretty straightforward codebase (less than > 13000 SLOC) which doesn't really qualify even as a module, being a > "module's module" given the current mod_dav architecture. I'm somehow > wondering, as a starting point, if this could be considered "just" a > simple code donation or if it would be advisable, since it requires > adding a fair bunch of people as committers, to approach it in the > established way, as a fully fledged incubation process.
Part of going through the Incubator is clearing the legalities. And this most certainly cannot be skipped. > I'm open to either opportunities, and willing to help the Catacomb > community enter Apache doing all the boring "paperwork" if there is > interest on this side of the fence too. We can always use help in that dept. Chasing people for CLAs and the like ;). > Mind you, I'm not an ASF member, > so I would also like to know if there is someone among you willing to > champion this proposal while counting on my help. Also, please note that > I'm not of course part of the httpd PMC, so if you need some input keep > me in CC (or just discuss it on [EMAIL PROTECTED]). > > Comments? I think Catacomb would be a welcome addition to the HTTP Server project. Sander --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
