Good luck, Alexander I have some articles under development that I hope will help the discussion on how to use Couchapps to expand the CouchDB ecosystem. johs
> On 31 Oct 2015, at 15:35, Michelle Phung <[email protected]> wrote: > > :) i think its a really good idea! > > Michelle > >> On Oct 31, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good news that there are no bad news (: >> >> Since noone objects, will proceed with following plan. >> -- >> ,,,^..^,,, >> >> >>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi everyone. >>> >>> Recently we had quite hot discussions around CouchApps feature: what >>> the future it has, what the problems it has, what the plans people >>> have on it and so on, but basically we have a lot of talks, but only. >>> However, these discussions showed that we have quite enough people in >>> our community who loves that feature, who wishes it to become better >>> and who wanted to make it better. >>> >>> While CouchDB Team has no enough resources to completely support this >>> feature and improve it, I propose to create CouchApp Work Group (CAWG) >>> which will be organized by active CouchApp activists and people who >>> would like to work on it and provide support of any kind that can. >>> >>> >>> === What CAWG will do? >>> >>> - Restore good name of CouchApp and couchapp.org website; >>> - Search for solutions of technical and ideological issues; >>> - Provide informational and technical support; >>> - Involve more people into CouchDB ecosystem; >>> - Provide feedback to CouchDB dev team for the existed features that >>> CouchApps counts vital, proposals and, I wish, pull requests for new >>> features and improvements; >>> >>> As was previously wisely noticed, CouchApp is a metafeature that based >>> on top of CouchDB, but it tightly coupled with CouchDB and we cannot >>> ignore it existence nor try to bury history of our project. >>> >>> >>> === How CAWG will interact with core devs? >>> >>> There were asked some concerns that CouchDB devs cannot maintains >>> CouchApp related requests now, work on new features and so on, and so >>> on, so all the new feature requests discussion almost always ended >>> with the same resolution. >>> >>> Accounting past experience, I propose the following format: CAWG works >>> on it own without disturbing core developers by ideas, requests and >>> what else. >>> >>> All feature requests are forms as good proposals on CWiki or ML with >>> rationale part. If CWAG could generate pull requests with features >>> implementations and bug fixes - that is the best case of our >>> cooperation. >>> >>> >>> === Who the tools CAWG will use? >>> >>> - New ML [email protected] for discussion, support, etc. >>> - CWiki for designing proposals, ideas, documenting workflow etc. >>> - JIRA with CouchApp component to track issues and work on them >>> - couchapp.org website as main informational base. I guess, we'll be >>> need in git repository to manage it content on the first steps, unless >>> there are other alternatives. >>> >>> >>> === Who are all these peoples? >>> >>> Everyone in CouchDB community who want to work on CouchApp feature. >>> Keyword - work, because there are a lot of people here with a lot of >>> ideas, but without implementing them nothing will get changed. >>> >>> So far I'd propose to promote these folks: >>> - Ermouth >>> - Giovanni Lenzi >>> - Harald Kisch >>> - Josh E. >>> - Benjamin Young >>> >>> Anyone else? >>> >>> (Note, I know that some devs had not the best discussions with some of >>> these people, but I would like if we can abstract from emotions of the >>> past here, shake our hands and try to work together in the new format) >>> >>> My personal role here is to be a bridge: connect CAWG with CouchDB and >>> provide help with Erlang bits and other project routines. >>> >>> >>> === How this all means to CouchDB Future? >>> >>> Our last mottos and slogans were focused on that we're, basically, >>> database for web that replicates. For now CouchApp feature is not in >>> the best state to put it on the front of CouchDB marketing. >>> >>> If we can get CouchApps back to live and this will really work and >>> involve more people into CouchDB project and ecosystem - we're all in >>> win-win situation. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ,,,^..^,,,
