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From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 03:09:17 +0800
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On Dec 1, 2011, at 03:04 , Mikeal Rogers wrote:

> you should make this a blog post so that I can link to it :)

Will any of these do? :)

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@couchdb.apache.org/msg18043.html

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http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201111.mbox/%3CC3277=
64F-9638-4D98-B0B6-55FFFC69A875@apache.org%3E

Cheers
Jan
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> On Nov 30, 2011, at November 30, 20119:43 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
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>> Apache CouchDB is Alive and Kicking
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>> =93The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.=94 =97 Mark Twain
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>> In the past days at the end of November 2011, a few news items hit =
the
>> tech scene that suggested that the Apache CouchDB project is done =
for.
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>> We, the Apache CouchDB team, are writing to you today: do not worry,
>> the project is alive and well.
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>> Canonical and Ubuntu One
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>> In 2009 Canonical decided to base the data sync feature of their =
Ubuntu
>> One project on Apache CouchDB. Its goal was to allow seamless =
synchro-
>> nisation of personal data between different computers and devices and =
their cloud hosting service. A use-case that seemed perfect for
>> CouchDB at the time, and we consider that still to be the case.
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>> Individuals from the CouchDB team have worked closely with the =
dev-elopers at Canonical to help making Ubuntu One a success. At some
>> point in the past, these individuals developed patches to adapt =
CouchDB
>> to certain Ubuntu One use cases. These patches diverged from the main
>> CouchDB code base.
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>> Over time, it became harder and harder to reconcile these changes =
with
>> the main CouchDB code base, so fixing bugs and rolling out new =
features
>> from more recent CouchDB release took a lot more time and energy.
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>> At some point in the near past, we presume, Canonical decided to not
>> pursue this any further. And we respect that decision and we wish =
them
>> best with their development of their new U1DB, which is a database-
>> agnostic API that takes after CouchDB's API, but is tied closer
>> to their particular feature set.
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>> We'd like to thank Canonical for officially endorsing this part of =
the
>> message.
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>> =93The company behind CouchDB=94
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>> During the development of Ubuntu One, Cannonical worked with =
Couchbase,
>> who happen to employ some of CouchDB's committers. In a recent an-
>> nouncement, they erroneously described Couchbase as the company =
behind
>> CouchDB. We'd like the set the record straight by saying that this =
isn't
>> the case. CouchDB is an Apache Software Foundation project and has no
>> corporate sponsor.
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>> We are fortunate enough to have a number of companies who employ our
>> committers or sponsor individual people to work on the project. These
>> people, however, contribute to the project as individuals, regardless =
of
>> their involvement with Cloudant, Couchbase, Enki Multimedia, Iris =
Couch,
>> or any other corporate entity.
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>> The Future
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>> Apache CouchDB will continue to build great database technology and
>> release stable, mature and trustworthy releases for our developers to
>> build great applications on.
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>> We want to thank everybody for their support and look forward to a =
great
>> future!
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>> On behalf of the The Apache CouchDB Project Management Committee,
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>> Jan Lehnardt,
>> Chairman
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