Alex, wow. I forgot about that. "Increase month over month commits."
Check! "Get a JIRA triage team and Github/patch team up and running." Still looking for volunteers... "Increase the size of the committership. [Perhaps] double it?" Wow. Exactly double! "Release monthly." Check! "Increase marketing activity." Check! This make me so happy. I think we've really pulled together this year. All of us. Everybody reading this: give yourself a hearty pat on the back. And here's to an even more excellent 2014! On 20 December 2013 20:33, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > Awesome summary, Jan! > Thanks to all CouchDB team for making this amazing project better from > year to year!(: > > Now it's interesting to take a look back on the "Goals for 2013" > thread. I think we've achieved most part of them (if not even all), > haven't we?(; > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg23918.html > > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I just published the transcript of my CouchDB Conf, Vancouver Keynote >> (https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/the_state_of_couchdb), and I’d like >> to share it with you as well. >> >> My thanks to everyone who helped making this year the success it has been! <3 >> >> * * * >> >> This is a rough transcript of the CouchDB Conf, Vancouver Keynote. >> >> >> ## Welcome >> >> Good morning everyone. I thank you all for coming on this fine day in >> Vancouver. I’m very happy to be here. My name is Jan Lehnardt and I am the >> Vice President of Apache CouchDB at the Apache Software Foundation, but >> that’s just a fancy title that means I have to do a bunch of extra work >> behind the scenes. I’m also a core contributor to Apache CouchDB and I am >> the longest active committer to the project at this point. >> >> I started helping out with CouchDB in 2006 and that feels like a lifetime >> ago. We’ve come a long way, we’ve shaped the database industry in a big way, >> we went though a phoenix from the ashes time and came out still inspiring >> future generations of developers to do great things. >> >> So it is with great honour that I get to be here on stage before you to take >> a look at the state of CouchDB. >> >> >> ## Numbers >> >> I’d like to start with some numbers: >> >> - In 2013 we **added 15 committers** to the project, up to a total of 30. >> Thats 2x the number of people regularly contributing to CouchDB! >> >> - The year isn’t yet over, but these committers already created 3x the >> commits of 2012. And they have committed more than in any other year in >> CouchDB’s history. >> >> - We have **shipped eight releases**: 1.0.4 1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0, >> 1.3.1, 1,4.0 and 1.5.0 just this year, that is up from one(!) last year. >> - thanks to our new release schedule we are getting more features to more >> people faster by focusing on small iterative changes forward. >> >> - 20% more JIRA tickets and 50% more GitHub issues >> >> We have made a lot of changes in 2012 to make 2013 a great year for CouchDB >> and it sure looks like we succeeded and that 2014 is only going to trump >> that. >> >> I’d like to thank everyone on the team for their hard work. >> >> >> ## Currently >> >> We’ve just shipped CouchDB 1.5.0 last week and it comes with a few exciting >> new things as previews, for you to try out and play with and report any >> issues with back to us. And that is on top of all the regular bug fixing and >> other improvements. >> >> >> 1. A completely new developed admin UI, nicknamed Fauxton, that is poised to >> replace the much-loved, but increasingly dated Futon. I’d like to personally >> thank the Fauxton team: Sue “Deathbear” Lockwood, Russell “Chewbranca” >> Branca, Garren Smith and many more volunteers for their work as well as the >> company Cloudant for sponsoring a good chunk of that work. Great job >> everyone! Fauxton is going to be replacing Futon in one of the next few >> releases and will give us the foundation for the next stage of CouchDB’s >> life. >> >> 2. Plugins. While it was always possible to write plugins for CouchDB, you >> kind of had to be an expert in CouchDB to get started. We believe that >> writing plugins is a great gateway drug to getting more people to hack on >> CouchDB proper, so we made it simpler to build plugins and to install >> plugins into a running instance of CouchDB. It is still very early days, we >> don’t even have a plugin registry yet, but we are surely excited about the >> prospects of installing GeoCouch with a single click of a button in Futon or >> Fauxton. We also included a template plugin that you can easily extend and >> make your own, along with a guide to get you started. >> >> The plugins effort also supports a larger trend we are starting to follow >> with the CouchDB core codebase: decide on a well-defined core set of >> functionality and delegate more esoteric things to a rich plugin system That >> means we no longer have to decline the inclusion of useful code like we’ve >> done in the past, because it wasn’t applicable to the majority of CouchDB >> users. Now we can support fringe features and plugins that are only useful >> to a few of our users, but who really need them. >> >> 3. A Node.JS query server. CouchDB relies on JavaScript for a number of core >> features and we want to continue to do so. In order to keep up with the >> rapid improvements made to the JavaScript ecosystem we have tentative plans >> to switch from a Spidermonkey-driven query server to a V8-driven one. In >> addition, the Node.js project has a really good installation story, >> something that we had trouble with in the past, and includes a few utilities >> that make it very easy for us to switch the query server over. >> >> All this however is not to blindly follow the latest trends, but to >> encourage the community to take on the query server and introduce much >> needed improvements. The current view server is a tricky mix of JS, Erlang >> and C and we are not seeing many people daring to jump into that. In a >> second step we expect these improvements to trickle down to the other query >> server implementations like Python or PHP and make things better for >> everyone. For now this is also a developer preview and we are inviting all >> Node.js developers to join us and build a a better query server. >> >> 4. Docs landed in 1.4.0, but 1.5.0 is seeing a major update to the now >> built-in documentation system. With major thanks to Alexander Shorin, >> Dirkjan Ochtmann and Dave Cottlehuber who were instrumental in that effort, >> CouchDB now has “really good docs” instead of a “really crappy wiki”, that >> are shipped with every release and are integrated with Futon and Fauxton. >> >> >> ## Beyond >> >> The immediate next area of focus for the CouchDB project is the merging of >> two forks: BigCouch and rcouch. >> >> BigCouch is a >> [Dynamo](http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html) >> implementation on top of CouchDB that manages a cluster of machines and >> makes them look as a single one, adding performance improvements and fault >> tolerance to a CouchDB installation. This is a major step in CouchDB’s >> evolution as it was designed for such a system from the start, but the core >> project never included a way to use and manage a cluster. Cloudant have >> donated their BigCouch codebase to the Apache project already and we are >> working on an integration. >> >> rcouch is a what I would call a “future port” of CouchDB by longtime >> committer and contributor Benoit Chesneau. rcouch looks like CouchDB would, >> if we started fresh today with a modern architecture. Together with >> BigCouch’s improvements, this will thoroughly modernise CouchDB’s codebase >> to the latest state of the art of Erlang projects. rcouch also includes a >> good number of nifty features that make a great addition to CouchDB’s core >> feature set and some great plugins. >> >> Finally, we’ve just started an effort to set up infrastructure and called >> for volunteers to translate the CouchDB documentation and admin interface >> into all major languages. Driven by Andy Wenk from Hamburg, we already have >> a handful of people signed up to help with translations for a number of >> different languages. >> >> This is going to keep us busy for a bit and we are looking forward to ship >> some great releases with these features. >> >> ## tl;dr >> >> 2013 was a **phenomenal** year for Apache CouchDB. 2014 is poised to be even >> greater, there are more people than ever pushing CouchDB forward and there >> is plenty of stuff to do and hopefully, we get to shape some more of the >> future of computing. >> >> Thank you! >> >> * * * >> >> Best >> Jan >> -- >> >> -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
