From user-return-19393-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Fri Jan 6 21:27:51 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40562B237 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 21:27:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 82407 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2012 21:27:48 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 81632 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2012 21:27:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 81610 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jan 2012 21:27:46 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:27:46 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.244.253.218] (HELO mail.traeumt.net) (80.244.253.218) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:27:38 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.30] (brln-4dba87e5.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.135.229]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.traeumt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 25F433CE72; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:27:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: The Future Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Jan Lehnardt In-Reply-To: <1541C5D0-EF1D-4579-87F1-662D09C23611@jaguNET.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:27:16 +0100 Cc: board@apache.org, dev@couchdb.apache.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <4EEB6E36-01F1-4616-A293-597F4E4C130E@apache.org> References: <1541C5D0-EF1D-4579-87F1-662D09C23611@jaguNET.com> To: user@couchdb.apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) On Jan 6, 2012, at 22:21 , Jim Jagielski wrote: > It might not be a bad idea to maybe blog something about this... > Certainly the story being presented to the unwashed masses > is that Damien is still the driving force behind CouchDB, > that the nasty overhead of trying to build s/w via consensus- > based collaboration is damaging CouchDB (and in fact, has > damaged it so badly that Damien needs to seek more "energetic" > pastures elsewhere) and that CouchDB is heading towards the > bit bucket. It would be great to get out something that > refutes all those points. Jim, the committers discussed this (in a private email thread) and opted to respond with positive action rather than clarifying posts. I just announced a new committer, a PMC addition is in the works and the new major version 1.2.0 got dropped into the release procedure. We hope that the news of all these events (and many more to come in the near future) will create the desired public perception. Cheers Jan --=20 >=20 > On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Noah Slater wrote: >=20 >> Dear Community, >>=20 >> As some of you may have already read, Damien Katz, Apache CouchDB=92s = original developer, has publicly announced that he intends to focus his = time exclusively on developing other products for his company. Damien = has had very little involvement in the CouchDB project for a year or = more now, so, for many people, this is confirmation of what they already = knew. We=92re sorry to see him go, and wish him all the best in his new = direction. We all owe him a huge debt of thanks for all the hard work he = has put in over the years, and for his original vision of the project. >>=20 >> Our biggest strength has always been the breadth and depth of our = community of developers and users. In the very near future, we=92ll be = voting in a new committer, appointing a new PMC member, sprucing up the = website, and making a major new release. We=92re happy to confirm that = Cloudant has also publicly made a commitment to help contribute BigCouch = to the CouchDB project. BigCouch, for those of you who have not had the = pleasure of using it already, is a fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable = clustering framework purpose-built for CouchDB. >>=20 >> Here=92s to our future! >>=20 >> Relax, >>=20 >> Noah Slater >=20