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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:42:12 +0100
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Hi again everyone,

I am happy to get a discussion going about this. I'd say Debian is a major =
platform for servers. Therefor, I believe CouchDB should exist there - with=
 a reasonable modern version. Sure, you can install from source. However, w=
ith CouchDB and it's replication features it should be easy to roll it out =
to a multitude of Debian servers and kick off replication.

Also, previously Couchbase was hosting a (sadly, buggy) Debian package. Aft=
er the death of the Couchbase package[1] there is no modern Debian package =
alternative anymore.

To keep this discussion going - what did you think of Jan's proposal to set=
 up a Debian maintainer mailing list? As of the initial question, shall Deb=
ian stable installations be living with 0.11 for another ~6 months? I guess=
 so.

/J

-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
Fr=E5n: Jan Lehnardt [mailto:jan@apache.org]=20
Skickat: den 31 januari 2012 21:42
Till: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Kopia: Laszlo Boszormenyi
=C4mne: Re: backport of couchdb

Hi Laszlo,

On Jan 31, 2012, at 21:24 , Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> First, I'm an official DD and the maintainer of CouchDB.

Pleased to meet you and thanks for weighing in on this discussion :)


>> As for the back porting, Debian doesn't directly manage any packages.
>> Everything has a package maintainer who may or may not be part of the=20
>> Debian staff, so it really does land on the maintainer. And I don't=20
>> see how you could back port fixes from, say, 1.x.x to 0.x.x.
> Let me ask an other way. Is CouchDB expected to change a lot=20
> internally?

I think it is. The question, I think, is how much end-users will be affecte=
d by these changes (upgrade trouble, incompatibilities etc.) We are doing o=
ur best to not break BC (according to semver.org) and make upgrades seamles=
s and well documented.

> What about helping downstream with security fixes?

We could start a new mailing list package-maintainers@couchdb.apache.org
where downstream folks can subscribe and get notified about impeding releas=
es as well as security notices. Would that be a good first step?
What else could we do to help you downstream?

> When CouchDB 1.2.0 is expected to be released?

We are expecting to call a vote in the next few days (pending release manag=
er time). As per our process, it'll take 4-5 days after the initial call fo=
r voting to get the release out (if the votes don't go through and if issue=
s are found, this process is reset).

Let us know if you have any other questions and thanks again for helping ou=
t!

Cheers
Jan
--=20