The History Project aims to research and collect information related to:
General History of Apache httpd
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Before Apache
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Why Apache
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Initial Development Team
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How Apache became one of the most successful OSS projects to date
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Changes in Development Environment (1
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Casestudy: Apache Development model (and how it has evolved)
Apache httpd Release timeline
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Release Date
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Changelog / Release notes
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Tarball
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Usage statistics
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Other Important Release informaton
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Version
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Release Manager
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Security Fixes
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New Directives
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Changed Directives
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State (Alpha/Beta/GA)
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Etc.
Apache Software Foundation History
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Project Profiles
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Member Profiles
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Join Date
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First List Post
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Description of work done for project
Subprojects History
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Convince at least one person from each project to participate and maintain history of that project.
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Short historical description
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Usage statistics
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Same project parts as the httpd history projects
Quote collection from development lists
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Historical comments
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Funny comments Footnote 1 - 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... Footnote 2 - Mads: [15:37] <quasi> That could actually be very interesting - along with stuff about how the foundation was formed - legal issues and stuff Footnote 3 - Rich: [15:38] <DrBacchus> quasi: 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.
[15:48] <DrBacchus> 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.
[15:48] <DrBacchus> Folks inside the project often don't see that aspect of things.