Hello "support-tiger",
> As more of newer / outsider couch/pouch users, have to say that Gitlab
> (which we really like) or Github seem to offer much more in terms of
> descriptions of commits, issues, easier pull request management, .......
> Idea is to make easier / incentives for contributions.
We've already moved our primary Git repository to:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb
We use everything you mention already now, for about 5 months' time. We
track commits, issues, pull requests all in GitHub, and have semi-retired
JIRA (active issues are still being migrated.)
Perhaps you missed the notifications on this mailing list. Here they are:
Moving our primary repositories to GitHub (2017-03-09):
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/141733b2bc3b13e5128271f0d589e07aeb06729141c29c0fb3141724@%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E
Moving to GitHub Issues (2017-05-20):
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/47ddef066dd16ee05b5f6ce4a5d773ef97017f77031ee8d0823b9e2c@%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E
HOWEVER, we are required by the terms of the Apache Software Foundation
to *release* our software through their infrastructure, according to a
strictly defined release process. It is defined here:
https://apache.org/legal/release-policy
https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing
https://apache.org/dev/release-download-pages
> one year between releases seems much too long - maybe okay for a
> production release with a much more often developer version.
Yes, we will be releasing more frequently from here on out. I'll be
posting about proposed changes once the 2.1.0 release cycle is complete,
which should be on Monday.
Thank you for your ongoing interest in CouchDB!
-Joan
