Hi Jim, I did my best to offer a competing narrative over at http://blog.cloudant.com/the-future-of-couchdb/. Cheers,
Adam On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> 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. > > 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 >
