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.