Title: ASF History Project - Goals
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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](#foot1) 

- 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](#foot2) , [(3](#foot3) 

- 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
<a name="foot1">Footnote 1 - Jim:</a>
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...
<a name="foot2">Footnote 2 - Mads:</a>
[15:37] &lt;quasi&gt; That could actually be _very_ interesting - along with stuff about how the foundation was formed - legal issues and stuff
<a name="foot3">Footnote 3 - Rich:</a>
[15:38] &lt;DrBacchus&gt; 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] &lt;DrBacchus&gt; 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] &lt;DrBacchus&gt; Folks inside the project often don't see that aspect of things.