Yes, I saw and whole-heartedly approve ;) On Jan 6, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Adam Kocoloski wrote:
> 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 >> >
