Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-11 Thread Dave Cottlehuber
Great thread. I've nothing specific to add except some comments from my experience as a manager. 1. You can expect your contribution (in hours / head space) to be roughly the same this year as last year unless you had Major Life Change. Don't expect New Year's miracles. 2. We need to focus on a

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-08 Thread Benoit Chesneau
My personal technical and community goals for this year : - give more visibility of what's going on. ANd for me it is just about to let you know what do each others (and specifically the devs) on the ml or on the media I am. This isn't marketing. I just want do do it because I also miss that

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
(warning, grumpy rant forthcoming...) On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: Thoughts? It seems to me that a lot of this hinges on releases. Releases generate publicity and therefore developer interest, thus developer engagement. Releases make sure that work

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:04 , Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: (warning, grumpy rant forthcoming...) Dirkjan, understood, loud and clear. And I think we all agree with you :) In fact, we made a few changes to the way we manage the code and releases to improve all of that, but I think

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Noah Slater
Agreed. Thanks for the honest feedback. Massively appreciated. I have been very frustrated with the 1.3.0 release. It was, and still is, supposed to be the first of our regular releases. Unfortunately, the release was mired with a raft of CVEs that came first, and then some thorny blockers. Not

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Newson
+1. We are conscious of our release process failings but it's great to see an uninhibited reminder like this. We're aiming for regular, frequent releases after this one, as Noah says. I want to see that process so regular that it becomes boring. You should come to expect that a fix is out within

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Paul Davis
There's a lot of work that could be done to a lot of the internals of CouchDB to clean things up and put us back in a place where we can be quicker to innovate. 1. Rewrite the HTTP layer to not be a gobbledygook function call spiderweb for request dispatching. Whether we use something like

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Thanks for calling this to action Noah! My personal list for this year: -1. Get people excited to contribute to CouchDB. 0. Help remove roadblocks for any sort of contribution, docs, code, tests, bugs, whatever it takes. 1. A bunch of features that I’d like to rally some activity around, as

Re: [DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-07 Thread Russell Branca
My goals right now for CouchDB are focused around how users interact with the system. Specifically, I want to see fauxton fully functional with a vibrant plugin ecosystem. The other big area is how users extend functionality of CouchDB with javascript. I think the first big step is switching to

[DISCUSS] Goals for 2013

2013-03-06 Thread Noah Slater
Hello community, I'd like to start a thread and collect a list of goals for 2013. We have a few exciting things in the pipeline. BigCouch is about to land. Benoit's rcouch is also going to land. We're probably going to be moving to V8. And if Jan has anything to do with it, we'll be getting a