I'd like t add that if you can't figure out yourself how to help then ask on IRC or the mailing list. :)
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > As a follow up... > > CouchDB is in no rush to keep up with anything. Slow and steady wins the > race. We've at Apache for five years, and we'll be here for five years > more. We don't measure ourselves against other projects. That's a quick > route to mediocrity. > > Sorry that you didn't get responses as quickly as you were expecting. As > Jan points out, we're all doing this because we're passionate about the > project. Nobody is paid to work on CouchDB. So a little patience is needed. > > But also, CouchDB is a do-ocracy. People who do things are the people who > shape the project. Telling other people they should do stuff does not have > a history of working out so great. So if you think newbies should be > responded to faster, try doing it yourself, and getting others to pitch in. > Some sort of triage team might even form around that effort. And if you > think the docs could go faster, hop on to IRC, send a few more emails, > figure out how you can help, and get stuck in. > > To quote Gandhi, "be the change you want to see in the project." > > Welcome to the team. ;) > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:04 PM, 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. this is not how to build a successful > > contributor community. Certainly not like active great projects like > > nodejs, inkscape, .... > > > > I read somewhere that Apache Foundation is where projects go to die. 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! > > > > > > -- > NS >
