Joan, do you remember plum? Around the same time as Monty. Here's a snippet from #couchdb from way back when...
07:15 <plum> The Expando Class: http://blog.9elements.com/?p=14 07:31 <VladDrac> plum: this expando pattern is quite common in object databases, 07:31 <plum> they're a commonly-used indicator of environmental quality, that design patterns are hacks around a languages missing features. 07:31 <VladDrac> actually only rdbm's are highly static in their schema definition 07:31 <VladDrac> Plone (a cms) is build on Zope/ ZODB (object database) and has specifically these features for the reasons you describe 07:47 <jmoiron> fyi, just in case; plum's a bot On 10 April 2014 19:55, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh man, that made me nostalgic. I miss Monty. And I'm SO happy you're > joining the PMC. Welcome aboard Joan. :) > > On 10 April 2014 18:30, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >> Noah and the Apache CouchDB PMC, thank you for nominating me to join >> your number. >> >> Boy, how times have changed! In May 2009, I was a month or so into PhD >> research. I popped on IRC to ask my first CouchDB question - why a view >> was never returning - and stumbled upon a way to get invalid UTF-8 data >> into Couch, but not back out. Jan, Damien, Monty and Paul helped me out, >> though Paul was occasionally AFK looking at new apartment listings, and >> of course Monty was barking mad. >> >> People were friendly, engaged, and genuinely interested in the bug that >> became COUCHDB-345. It took 4 months to fix, and ended up with a patch >> set upstream to mochiweb as well. >> >> Since then I've been a non-stop user of CouchDB, including incorporating >> it into a p2p secure asset sharing system, an artefact repository for >> software release & deployment, as a backend for some top 10 mobile phone >> games and of course work on CouchDB, bigcouch and Cloudant themselves. >> >> I remain convinced that CouchDB is the sleeper NoSQL tech that's winning >> in the long run. >> >> We've got a lot of bugs to squash still, 2 big merges to get done and a >> whole lot of great requests and suggestions from the community at large. >> I look forward to doing everything I can to facilitate that work, and a >> few of my own patches as well. >> >> Rock on, >> Joan >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 4:57:24 AM >> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Joan Touzet joins the PMC >> >> Dear community, >> >> I am delighted to announce that Joan Touzet joins the Apache CouchDB >> Project Management Committee today. >> >> Joan has made outstanding, sustained contributions to the project. >> This appointment is an official acknowledgement of their position >> within the community, and our trust in their ability to provide >> oversight for the project. >> >> Everybody, please join me in congratulating Joan! >> >> On behalf of the CouchDB PMC, >> >> -- >> Noah Slater >> https://twitter.com/nslater > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater -- Noah Slater https://twitter.com/nslater
