The History Project aims to research and collect 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 (1

• Casestudy: 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 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.