From dev-return-49062-archive-asf-public=cust-asf.ponee.io@couchdb.apache.org Fri Feb 14 17:38:21 2020 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [207.244.88.153]) by mx-eu-01.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id 96CD1180647 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:38:21 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 68553 invoked by uid 500); 14 Feb 2020 17:38:20 -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 68485 invoked by uid 99); 14 Feb 2020 17:38:20 -0000 Received: from Unknown (HELO mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) (10.10.3.159) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:38:20 +0000 Received: from fern.fritz.box (business-90-187-118-25.pool2.vodafone-ip.de [90.187.118.25]) by mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mailrelay1-lw-us.apache.org) with ESMTPSA id 217132234; Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:38:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Jan Lehnardt Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) Subject: [REPORT] CouchDB Message-Id: <105493A3-1B84-4567-94A9-F02FC02BBE75@apache.org> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:38:18 +0100 Cc: dev@couchdb.apache.org, private@couchdb.apache.org To: board@apache.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.11) ## Description: Apache CouchDB software is a document-oriented database that can be = queried and=20 indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers=20 incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and = resolution. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago) There are currently 65 committers and 16 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2. Community changes, past quarter: - Jonathan Hall was added to the PMC on 2020-02-12 - Juanjo Rodriguez was added as committer on 2020-02-07 ## Project Activity: - The release process for CouchDB 3.0.0 has started. We expect a release=20= shortly. See board reports from last year about the exact nature of this release, including a discussion on features and backwards compatibility. - a blog post campaign to accompany the campaign is in the works as = well. - a rouge source that provided binary builds off of CouchDB master has been shut down. Unbeknownst to the project, a good number of critical = fixes for the 3.0.0 release were found by users of this unauthorised binary = provider. We are happy to continue to make sure the project complies with ASF = policy, but we also want to highlight that we benefitted from something that was=20 technically forbidden, so maybe it is worth reconsidering some of this. Due to the release process, we are currently not in the position to = bring this up in the form of a regular policy change request, we just wanted = to=20 flag this, in case someone wants to take up this cause. - a large corporate contributor to CouchDB has an infrastructure policy = of only allowing outbound HTML emails, while the ASF mail servers allow absolutely no HTML. This has lead to friction in getting individuals = from that corporation to participate in the official channels of the project. = We=E2=80=99ve made=20 due for the moment, but this is hurting our official activity as people = will go the route of least friction and start discussions outside of official channels. While those discussions are not of a nature that make = decisions for the project, we are careful about keeping those on dev@, it leads to = folks missing out on discussions, if they don=E2=80=99t happen to be part of a = discussion=20 channel that=E2=80=99s more accessible than the plaintext mailing list. = Again, we are not in a position to pick up the mantle for this surely larger discussion, we just bring up another data point on the issue. ## Community Health: Community activity is in line with our expectations. We are seeing an = uptick of new contributions around in the lead up of 3.0.0, which people are = genuinely excited about.