Giovanni, I'd appreciate it if you'd lay off the personal attacks. I have nothing but the best interests of CouchDB in mind. If you are arguing against me, start from that premise.
Best Jan -- > On 07.05.2015, at 05:13, Giovanni Lenzi <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
