On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 26 Apr 2011, at 17:09, Jens Rantil wrote: > >> I have noticed that there is very little activity on Debian packaging of >> Apache CouchDB. The latest version of is 0.11.0 for both Debian stable, >> unstable and testing. > > This is depressing. I thought some people had stepped up to maintain this > package. What happened with that. Are you peeps still out there?
Yup, I'm right here. :) What happened was Debian's release policies and technical committee flew in the face of everything we were trying to do. They weren't even supposed to release 0.11 into stable according to their guidelines because stepping to it from 0.8 was going to break code. They wanted me to back port security fixes from 0.11 and 1.x into 0.8. Then they got upset that 0.8 ever made it into stable. THEN the whole desktop-couch and Ubuntu initiative somehow took over. To summarize, I became disinterested in maintaining the package under Debian, but might be interested in maintaining a separate one. I believe I spoke with Sergei that I was stepping back, but that could be a faulty memory. I assume that Sergei hasn't been working on it and that Debian's release team auto-pushed 0.11 into stable. These days I just install from source. Like I said, I could be coerced into offering unofficial .deb's, but would be more interested in seeing either CouchDB or a supportive company picking up the fight with or without my help. Cheers, -- Sam Bisbee www.sbisbee.com
