Jan.. don't you think you are simply too biased for external projects, such as your hoodie and pouchdb, to choose by your own, on a topic like 'retiring couchapps', so important to couchdb users and devs?
You REALLY can't mask it behind a marketing@ decision, of finding a story you have already written, since a long time, and that you simply don'want to change. Your story of the "data where you need it", does not have users and industries consensus. You can't hide it! You started with changing tooling names, sutting down couchapp domains and forcing our company to change our old couchappy name (even if couchapp wasn't even a trademark). We did it, because you promised visibility to us and couchapps, which has never happened. We believed in your words and in an healty pmc, but after this last move, we really can't think it anymore. Couchapps are now much more powerful than they were in the past, also thanks to our smileupps tutorials and app store platform, and to many other improvements proposal already advanced by users, who instead would like to improve them, not the contrary!!! Your chance now is to completely eradicate a main recruiting couchdb feature, before users can get aware of its potential, leading couchdb towards a probable self-killing action. And the worst is you are doing this, without any proven evidence and motivation, withouth asking devs of its development complexity, and users what they think about it. I definetely think you should: 1. HEAR YOUR COMMUNITY AND DEVS.. and if the consensus is 'don't remove couchapps, but push them with aggressive marketing'.. well then.. just do it! 2. Don't mark it absolutely as a marketing issue And you sould do this, before this could really be faced in front of the ASF board.
