Hey all,
I just sent this report to the ASF Board:
## Description:
Apache CouchDB software is a document-oriented database that can be queried and
indexed in a MapReduce fashion using JavaScript. CouchDB also offers
incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution.
## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing
Issues for the board: none.
## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (16 years ago)
There are currently 72 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:1.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Glynn Bird on 2023-03-14.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jiahui Li on 2023-08-24.
## Project Activity:
- We had a curious release process for the long-awaited 4.3.0 feature release:
- an hour before we had agreed to announce the release, we found a showstopper
issue, but the vote, release artefact, convenience binaries, all were locked
in an ready to go.
- we chose to fix the issue, start the release procedure of 4.3.1 and to just
not announce 3.4.0.
- we took a bit of a marketing hit because folks do not pay attention to .1
releases as much and this release had two new flagship features, but we
opted to be rather safe than sorry to keep the long-term trust our end-users
have.
- See https://blog.couchdb.org/2024/09/27/3-4-1/ for more details.
- We did release the 3.4.x series after a few months of working out new release
infrastructure details necessitated by the new features.
- The release finally unblocked work on future features that should now arrive
in more quickly succession.
- We also already released 3.4.2 to address a few annoying issues introduced in
3.4.0/3.4.1.
- So far the reception has been great.
## Community Health:
Nothing unusual to report, release and post-release activity has been higher
than normal, as anticipated. We are expecting this to continue as folks find
time to upgrade.
Best
Jan
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