+1 Feeling quite proud of us as a community in our responses here.
On 21 Feb 2012, at 00:28, Randall Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 16:21, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> ## Facts >> >> * CouchOne built products and services promoting CouchDB for one year >> * Couchbase did the same, plus held events, for about one year >> * Couchbase pivoted their products and branding a scant ten weeks ago. >> * The pivot announcement acknowledges the confusion and lays plans to >> address it. >> * Couchbase's DB sync product is un-confusingly named Mobile SyncPoint >> and uses the Couch replication protocol >> * Couchbase employs several CouchDB committers >> >> ^^ Kindly restrict responses to fact only, thanks. >> >> ## Opinions >> >> * The confusion is a recent, manageable, phenomenon. Its peak (or >> depth) is at most ten weeks old, less if you consider holidays. >> * It will blow over. >> * ASF committers at Couchbase are admirable. They all keep their >> mouths shut. Some of them quietly commit code (to CouchDB or GeoCouch) >> day-in, day-out. >> >> Like a lifelong friendship that's hit a rough patch, the rewards of a >> years-long relationship outweigh the cost of the transgression. >> >> The key word from Benoit's emails is "gentlemen." > > Good summary. I agree with all the facts. On the opinion that it will > blow over, we must do our part to help (that's all the other issues > for other threads that Noah mentioned). > CouchBase should figure out what they can do as well, and they should > share those plans with us so we can all reduce confusion together.
