ASF History Project - Goals¶

The History Project researches and collects information related to:

General History of Apache httpd¶

• Before Apache

• Why Apache

• Initial development team

• How Apache became one of the most successful OSS projects to date

• Changes in development environment - see footnotes

• Case study: Apache Development model (and how it has evolved)

Apache httpd release timeline¶

• Release Date

• Changelog / Release notes

• Tarball

• Usage statistics

• Other Important Release informaton

• Version

• Release Manager

• Security Fixes

• New Directives

• Changed Directives

• State (Alpha/Beta/GA)

• Etc.

Apache Software Foundation history¶

• How ASF was formed, legal issues. (2 , (3

• Project Profiles

• Member Profiles

• Join Date

• First List Post

• Description of work done for project

Subprojects history¶

• Convince at least one person from each project to participate and maintain history of that project.

• Short historical description

• Usage statistics

• Same project parts as the httpd history projects

Quote collection from development lists¶

• Historical comments

• Funny comments

Footnotes

• Jim: Also useful, I think, would be a description of how the actual coding environment changed, from people submitting patches and one person being responsible for folding them into the code, the "3 +1s" required for a patch to be included, review-then-commit vs. commit-then-review, etc...

• Mads: That could actually be very interesting - along with stuff about how the foundation was formed - legal issues and stuff

• Rich: Actually, it's one of the most important things, in my mind, as it falls under the "what works, what doesn't work, why Apache is successful" header. One of the most important roles that Apache plays, apart from being a damned fine product, is as a model of how OSS projects are supposed to work. Folks inside the project often don't see that aspect of things.