On Jan 6, 2012, at 22:21 , Jim Jagielski wrote: > It might not be a bad idea to maybe blog something about this... > Certainly the story being presented to the unwashed masses > is that Damien is still the driving force behind CouchDB, > that the nasty overhead of trying to build s/w via consensus- > based collaboration is damaging CouchDB (and in fact, has > damaged it so badly that Damien needs to seek more "energetic" > pastures elsewhere) and that CouchDB is heading towards the > bit bucket. It would be great to get out something that > refutes all those points.
Jim, the committers discussed this (in a private email thread) and opted to respond with positive action rather than clarifying posts. I just announced a new committer, a PMC addition is in the works and the new major version 1.2.0 got dropped into the release procedure. We hope that the news of all these events (and many more to come in the near future) will create the desired public perception. Cheers Jan -- > > On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Noah Slater wrote: > >> Dear Community, >> >> As some of you may have already read, Damien Katz, Apache CouchDB’s original >> developer, has publicly announced that he intends to focus his time >> exclusively on developing other products for his company. Damien has had >> very little involvement in the CouchDB project for a year or more now, so, >> for many people, this is confirmation of what they already knew. We’re sorry >> to see him go, and wish him all the best in his new direction. We all owe >> him a huge debt of thanks for all the hard work he has put in over the >> years, and for his original vision of the project. >> >> Our biggest strength has always been the breadth and depth of our community >> of developers and users. In the very near future, we’ll be voting in a new >> committer, appointing a new PMC member, sprucing up the website, and making >> a major new release. We’re happy to confirm that Cloudant has also publicly >> made a commitment to help contribute BigCouch to the CouchDB project. >> BigCouch, for those of you who have not had the pleasure of using it >> already, is a fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable clustering framework >> purpose-built for CouchDB. >> >> Here’s to our future! >> >> Relax, >> >> Noah Slater >
