Thanks for this Jan! On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- > >
