Hi Jan, I'm very sorry for the tone!
I am looking forward working on this for a good solution for everyone Best 2015-05-07 13:15 GMT+02:00 Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]>: > 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. > -- Giovanni Lenzi www.smileupps.com Smileupps Couchapps Store
