From user-return-19397-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Fri Jan 6 22:13:34 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 46ACFBCE7 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 72563 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2012 22:13:32 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 72508 invoked by uid 500); 6 Jan 2012 22:13:31 -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 72498 invoked by uid 99); 6 Jan 2012 22:13:31 -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 22:13:31 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [76.96.59.228] (HELO qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.59.228) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:13:24 +0000 Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta15.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id JN521i0031ap0As5FND5Kt; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:13:05 +0000 Received: from [192.168.199.10] ([69.251.91.46]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id JND41i013100q0d3iND4DB; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:13:05 +0000 Subject: Re: The Future Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1251.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 From: Jim Jagielski In-Reply-To: <2030A4D8-AD83-4DE2-965F-A26A7D3372F3@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 17:13:03 -0500 Cc: "user@couchdb.apache.org" , "dev@couchdb.apache.org" , Jan Lehnardt Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <1541C5D0-EF1D-4579-87F1-662D09C23611@jaguNET.com> <2030A4D8-AD83-4DE2-965F-A26A7D3372F3@gmail.com> To: board@apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) Yes, I saw and whole-heartedly approve ;) On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Adam Kocoloski wrote: > Hi Jim, I did my best to offer a competing narrative over at = http://blog.cloudant.com/the-future-of-couchdb/. Cheers, >=20 > Adam >=20 > On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >=20 >> 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. >>=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 >=20