On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear John, > > Thanks for caring about CouchDB. > > On Sep 18, 2012, at 17:04 , john.tiger <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've tried to get things going on documentation (probably the biggest reason >> couchdb is not more popular) - I put an initial outline forward - then >> nothing - no response. > > That’s because the team had been working on > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/docs > before your post. Noah had > alluded to that in the thread that was brought over to dev@. >
Also, the JIRA issue for the docs import is here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1523 > >> this is not how to build a successful contributor community. >> Certainly not like active great projects like nodejs, inkscape, .... > > I’m sorry nobody replied to your message yet. This is a group of > volunteers and everybody contributes in their own time. Out of > experience, I'd say most emails will get an answer. > > Also, from experience, the best chance to get things moving here > is starting, and showing some work. This usually gets other people > excited and contributing. Like everywhere else :) > > >> I read somewhere that Apache Foundation is where projects go to die. > > You mean like Lucene, Hadoop, Cassandra, httpd(!), PhoneGap/Cordova etc? :) > > It's a funny enough quip, but don’t believe everything the press says, > or what you read on Twitter. > > >> I hope this is not the case with couchdb but if there is no communication >> and no community, the project will die. Perhaps there is a small team that >> is being sponsored and trying to do it themselves, but it will not progress >> fast enough (and disregards the whole idea of why open source works). Let's >> move this forward - let's have some communication! > > I’m sure with the right set of contributions, we'll get there. Thanks > again for caring about CouchDB and for offering to help out! > > Best > Jan > -- > >
