Hi John, The future of CouchApps is trivial and was already discussed on this ML[1]: this feature stalled over 4 years already, it has quite enough issues and limitations, it lacks maintainer. If something of these won't change in nearest future, CouchApps are doomed. And all solutions lies though the hero(es) who will maintain and develop this feature.
The question here is not only about to keep existed code works. It's also about vision of what CouchApps are, what they have to be, how to evolve them and make really great and useful feature for CouchDB users and not only. Currently, there is no active leader of CouchApp feature in CouchDB team, so this place is vacant and we are welcome everyone who would like to take this duty on his/her shoulders. Otherwise CouchApps will continue to be feature of secondary type, sort of accidental side effect from technical decisions of good past days. No need to say what such state means. They may simply not survive next major release. [1]: Follow this thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-marketing/201505.mbox/%3CCAPMhwa5R6CdeQP-m_FHfqYsJ4NDwLYiePuwrsi2bRfzifncRpw%40mail.gmail.com%3E - it's long, but has all the same answers. -- ,,,^..^,,, On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Johs Ensby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all -- both couchapp lovers and skeptics, > > I want to start a new thread based on the below conversation between Jan and > Giovanni at the end of the thread [VOTE] WHY/HOW/WHAT. > > I am in the group of stakeholders that have a business that rely on CouchDB. > And I use couchApps hosted on Cloudant. I would like to see the community > grow, not split again and there seems to be a tone developing that I am sorry > if I have been a contributor to. Rather than having wide-reaching discussion > about dream features of future couchapps, I will try to stay on the subject > of a future for couchapps or not. > > The "watch me" from Jan below is very disturbing to me. > I would appreciate seeing some comments from PMC members on this. > > Johs > > >> On 18. sep. 2015, at 13.52, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> - you don't know if tomorrow some erlang skilled couchapp lover won't get >>> in and start working on the app part (to say the truth some of them were >>> already active in the past, but they chose to left just because of >>> this/yours direction) >> >> In my last email I specifically suggested for such a person to step up and >> I’d welcome them wholeheartedly. >> >> >>> - you can't remove something that ALREADY exists which A LOT of people >>> like, use and have businesses on top, just because you and a few people >>> don't like it >> >> Watch me. >
