We added two new Committers to the project: Jason Smith and Dave Cottlehuber. Both have been contributing to the CouchDB ecosystem and Apache CouchDB in particular for quite some time.
The PMC chair finally got around to announce Paul Davis as a new member of the PMC, the vote for which occurred last year. A new major release 1.2.0 is around the corner. For 1.2.0, for the first time, we will be voting on official Windows release binaries (courtesy of Dave Cottlehuber's work). Noticeable pick-up of activity around pressing issues, including community members publicly applauding the efforts. Git integration is going well. Developers are getting into the habit of regular branching and merging of features and bugfixes. Sharing of changes for testing and review is becoming easier as well. As cases in point, a large refactoring of an internal component[1] went very smooth as did the collaboration on a new security related feature. Regular, smaller work and bugfixes have been going on at the same time and was in no way hindered. We started documenting committer and contributor workflows on the wiki. PMC member Noah Slater started an inquiry with trademarks@ about a potential confusion with the Couchbase brand. While the thread is ongoing, Couchbase have already signaled eagerness to help resolve any issues. In the past, a similar inquiry about Couchbase's line CouchConf conferences was resolved to mutual satisfaction as well. Project founder Damien Katz resigned from the PMC after posting controversial blog posts challenging the future of the project. [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1270 On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, Jan Lehnardt --
