On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Jan Lehnardt<[email protected]> wrote: > > On 18 Aug 2009, at 09:10, Bernd Fondermann wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 02:38, Jan Lehnardt<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >> <snip/> >>> >>> Related: >>> - Do we want to foster plugins, extensions and other infrastructure >>> software or do we want to rely on the non CouchDB open source world to >>> come >>> up with them? >> >> I think, that's the real question: What software does the CouchDB >> project want to provide to its users as (a) product(s). >> If you have the answer to that, you can still decide how to organize >> it and how to call it. >> >> For example, Apache Lucene provides Lucene (a programming framework) >> and Solr (a ready-to-go server). Both a complimentary. >> More important, they nurse each other with new feature. This ain't no >> one way street. > > Thanks, that's what I was trying to say. > > >> If there is software which is really important in the CouchDB >> ecosystem, I'd try to take them (code + people) onboard. > > +1
Thanks for all the feedback. I'm still digesting it and waiting to hear what a few more of the committers think. I think this discussion hasn't swayed my opinion about bringing on the sub-projects, but it does raise interesting questions about the CouchDB-Lounge -> Erlang Lounge transformation (that are independent of the sub-project question, but still interesting...) Chris > > Cheers > Jan > -- > > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
