Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37DE811ABB for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 39866 invoked by uid 500); 10 Apr 2014 19:04:59 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-dev-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 39820 invoked by uid 500); 10 Apr 2014 19:04:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list dev@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 39789 invoked by uid 99); 10 Apr 2014 19:04:56 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:56 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [203.216.7.223] (HELO www.atypical.net) (203.216.7.223) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:04:51 +0000 Received: from 69-165-165-30.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.165.30] helo=localhost) by www.atypical.net with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WYKGx-0004GO-Hs for dev@couchdb.apache.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:04:27 +0900 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 15:04:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Joan Touzet To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Message-ID: <22681190.363.1397156661524.JavaMail.Joan@RITA> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Joan Touzet joins the PMC MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Hah, yes! I can't decide which I like more. plum was clearly more anthropomorphic, but was clearly more trolly than Monty, who more often just made me laugh. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Slater" To: "Noah Slater" Cc: dev@couchdb.apache.org Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 2:10:26 PM Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Joan Touzet joins the PMC Joan, do you remember plum? Around the same time as Monty. Here's a snippet from #couchdb from way back when... 07:15 The Expando Class: http://blog.9elements.com/?p=14 07:31 plum: this expando pattern is quite common in object databases, 07:31 they're a commonly-used indicator of environmental quality, that design patterns are hacks around a languages missing features. 07:31 actually only rdbm's are highly static in their schema definition 07:31 Plone (a cms) is build on Zope/ ZODB (object database) and has specifically these features for the reasons you describe 07:47 fyi, just in case; plum's a bot On 10 April 2014 19:55, Noah Slater wrote: > Oh man, that made me nostalgic. I miss Monty. And I'm SO happy you're > joining the PMC. Welcome aboard Joan. :) > > On 10 April 2014 18:30, Joan Touzet wrote: >> Noah and the Apache CouchDB PMC, thank you for nominating me to join >> your number. >> >> Boy, how times have changed! In May 2009, I was a month or so into PhD >> research. I popped on IRC to ask my first CouchDB question - why a view >> was never returning - and stumbled upon a way to get invalid UTF-8 data >> into Couch, but not back out. Jan, Damien, Monty and Paul helped me out, >> though Paul was occasionally AFK looking at new apartment listings, and >> of course Monty was barking mad. >> >> People were friendly, engaged, and genuinely interested in the bug that >> became COUCHDB-345. It took 4 months to fix, and ended up with a patch >> set upstream to mochiweb as well. >> >> Since then I've been a non-stop user of CouchDB, including incorporating >> it into a p2p secure asset sharing system, an artefact repository for >> software release & deployment, as a backend for some top 10 mobile phone >> games and of course work on CouchDB, bigcouch and Cloudant themselves. >> >> I remain convinced that CouchDB is the sleeper NoSQL tech that's winning >> in the long run. >> >> We've got a lot of bugs to squash still, 2 big merges to get done and a >> whole lot of great requests and suggestions from the community at large. >> I look forward to doing everything I can to facilitate that work, and a >> few of my own patches as well. >> >> Rock on, >> Joan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Noah Slater" >> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org >> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:57:24 AM >> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Joan Touzet joins the PMC >> >> Dear community, >> >> I am delighted to announce that Joan Touzet joins the Apache CouchDB >> Project Management Committee today. >> >> Joan has made outstanding, sustained contributions to the project. >> This appointment is an official acknowledgement of their position >> within the community, and our trust in their ability to provide >> oversight for the project. >> >> Everybody, please join me in congratulating Joan! >> >> On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater