Hi everyone,
Now that we have a path forward for FoundationDB, we also need to get moving on our best-and-greatest CouchDB-as-is release, namely the 3.x branch. If we were to cut CouchDB 3.0 from master today, we'd already have a lot of great new things since 2.3.1: * Partitioned DBs * Open PRs: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/385 * Cloudant-donated industrial-strength IOQ replacement * Cloudant-donated compaction daemon replacement ("smoosh") * Cloudant-donated view warmer ("ken") * Ready for Cloudant Search, if installed separately (no recompile) * Native shard splitting functionality * Improved test suite (JavaScript -> Elixir) * Erlang 22 support * Fix for rare fsync error encountered by Postgres in 2018 But we planned for a few more things for 3.0, as you can see in the "Proposed 3.x" column here: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/projects/1 It would be good for us to decide which of these are making it into 3.0 itself. At a minimum, we need #1534. I am actively working on #1523, and I know Jan is actively working on #1524. There's also the backlog column - we should determine if any of those make sense for 3.0 as well. I see a few I'd love to have in there personally, but don't have the time to commit to them just now. --- Also, allow me to introduce Deni Burroughs, who has been lurking on the list for a while now. Deni is the dbcore Cloudant Engineering Manager, and she'd like to help coordinate getting 3.0 out the door. Her area of expertise is in non-technical project management, which is great, because we could use more help in keeping our cats corralled! :) She and I had a chat a few weeks ago, and now seemed like the best time to introduce her to the list. Please make her feel welcome! -Joan
