This is by no means meant to apply any extra pressure, but for Ubuntu Karmic we have to package the CouchDB that is going to ship with the final release more or less now. On the other hand we'd love to have an officially released version in there rather than a packaged svn snapshot, since that will make things like backporting critical bugfixes and reporting bugs upstream a lot easier to streamline. Is it realistic that the release will happen this week? "No", is an acceptable answer, in that case we'll just start packaging what's there now.
I will prepare and call the vote tonight. That should take three days.
I was talking with the Debian Erlang guy, and he tells me that interest in the Debian package for CouchDB has waned since I last collected some volunteers for it's maintenance. Is it the case that no one is still interested in doing this work for Debian upstream? Are there any more volunteers?
