[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear community,

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: Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
There are currently 72 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:1.

In response to rbowen’s note about our high Committer-to-PMC ratio:
most active committers are on the PMC. We collected a lot of committers
over the last 15 years that dropped off the project before making it
into the PMC. We are not in the habit of forcibly retiring committers.

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:
- 3.3.3 was released on 2023-12-04 (h/t cdutz)
- we are still preparing the next feature release 3.4.0 which is currently
  held up by a single remaining issue.

## Community Health:
- community interaction is steady with a slight uptick as is normal after
  a release.
- dev activity has slowed a little, but not unreasonably so for this quarter.

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear dev@,

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 with moderate activity.
Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (15 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.
- Jiahui Li was added as committer on 2023-08-24
- Páli Gábor was added as committer on 2023-08-24

## Project Activity:
- Continued preparation for our next feature release 3.4.0 featuring the first
  (experimental) release of a from-scratch modern Apache Lucene-based clustered
  full-text search add-on.
- Update CI infra including new FreeBSD builders, new binary-package base
  images with newer dependencies.
- Our team (@vatamane) has reported multiple issues to our dependency Erlang,
  which we hope can be addressed soon.
- Continued work on adding a full Windows-based CI worker.

## Community Health:
- while GitHub interactions are down a little over the mid-year period, our
  unofficial Slack support channel is continuing to see decent traffic with
  both new and existing users reaching out for help.


Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hi all,

I’ve 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: Issues for the board: none.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Glynn Bird on 2023-03-14.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.

## Project Activity:

- RE: “cd: Could you please elaborate a bit on the relation of Apache
CouchDB and PouchDB ... sibling sort of implies that there is a
relation.”
  - PouchDB is a re-implementation of the CouchDB API and replication
protocol in JavaScript for use in browsers and Node.js. The project
are not formally linked, but some folks work on both sides and when
coordination is required, the two project teams collaborate.

- work on major new features continues.
- work on CI infrastructure continues.
- we started discussing the next feature release.


## Community Health:
- this is a northern hemisphere summer quarter and things are a little
  slower than usual, but nothing less than expected.

—

Best
Jan
—

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hi all,

Submitted an edit h/t Glynn and Gábor:

- s/Glynn/Ronny/ re PMC announcement + fixed date
- fixed “slated” version number in release planning note

Best
Jan
—


> On 13. Jun 2023, at 17:09, Jan Lehnardt  wrote:
> 
> Hii all,
> 
> I just submitted the following report to the ASF board.
> 
> Best
> Jan
> —
> 
> ## 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 with moderate activity
> Issues for the board: none
> 
> ## Membership Data:
> Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
> There are currently 70 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.
> 
> Community changes, past quarter:
> - Glynn Bird was added to the PMC on 2023-03-14
> - No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.
> 
> ## Project Activity:
> 
> - Next feature release (3.4.0) planning started, major new feature:
> - new modern Lucene integration for full-text and multi-facet search
> - New JS evaluation infrastructure (first attempt to refactor this core
> part of CouchDB. Feature complete, but some build issues remaining.
> Slated for 3.4.0 unless miraculously ready in time for 3.4.0.
> - slow but steady progress of other keystone features for future 3.x
> releases.
> 
> ## Community Health:
> - the community engagement is steady as usual with the expected uptick
> around new releases.
> 

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hii all,

I just submitted the following report to the ASF board.

Best
Jan
—

## 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 with moderate activity
Issues for the board: none

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (15 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 3:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Glynn Bird was added to the PMC on 2023-03-14
- No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.

## Project Activity:

- Next feature release (3.4.0) planning started, major new feature:
- new modern Lucene integration for full-text and multi-facet search
- New JS evaluation infrastructure (first attempt to refactor this core
part of CouchDB. Feature complete, but some build issues remaining.
Slated for 3.4.0 unless miraculously ready in time for 3.4.0.
- slow but steady progress of other keystone features for future 3.x
releases.

## Community Health:
- the community engagement is steady as usual with the expected uptick
around new releases.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hey all,

I’ve 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.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.

## Project Activity:

- 3.3.0 was released on 2022-12-28, greatly improving CouchDB replication
  performance. Details: https://blog.couchdb.org/2023/01/03/3-3-0/
- 3.3.1 was released on 2023-01-10, bugfix release.
- New CI nodes for macOS (arm64) and FreeBSD (arm64 & x86_64) have been
donated and commissioned. A new Windows (x86_64) node has been donated and
is being commissioned at the moment.
- Made good progress on the keystone features for the next major version.

## Community Health:
Activity us up on all metrics expected to go up adjacent with new
version releases.

* * *

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchdB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hey all,

I’ve 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.

## Project Activity:

- Continued success with monthly zoom dev meetings to discuss higher-level
  project features.
- These discussions helped us outline a nice set of features for our next
  major version release.
- Preparing a new release with significant improvements: 3.3.0 (a lot of
  performance work went into this one).
- Non-ASF-sibling project PouchDB has released version 8.0.0 this week,
  a major milestone.


## Community Health:

We continue to see good engagement on various community channels,
including the unofficial Slack that isn’t listed in our stats here.

* * *

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Ronny Berndt on 2022-04-08.


## Project Activity:
- Started a monthly synchronous developer meeting via Zoom, with notes
  and recordings for posterity. First iteration went very well. This
  helps with discussing technical challenges in ~90 minute deep-dives.
- Started roadmapping new plans for next major version 4.0 after
  abandoning previous FoundationDB plans earlier this year.
- A shortlist of marquee features for the 4.0 release is already in
  place.
- Further discussion about future direction beyond 4.0 has also started.

  
## Community Health:
- Nothing special to report here, we are chugging along nicely on all metrics. 

—

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hey all,

I just submitted this board report:

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (14 years ago)
There are currently 70 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- Ronny Berndt was added as committer on 2022-04-08

## Project Activity:
- we started attracting new committers who are already contributing regularly.
- after a bit of a tedious security release we are now re-focussing efforts on
  our next proper feature release.

## Community Health:
- We’re seeing an uptick in most project activity metrics and the community is
  humming along nicely.

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hey all,

I’m not sure why it was our turn again, but I’ve 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (13 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Balázs Donát Bessenyei on 2021-01-14.

## Project Activity:
- major feature and bugfix work has continued at a regular pace
- a new release is on the horizon


## Community Health:
- we started attracting a few new contributors to the project who have
  contributed across the board from big bug fixes, new feature proposals
  to packaging and release support.

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear CouchDB Community,

I’ve just submitted 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (13 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Balázs Donát Bessenyei on 2021-01-14.


## Project Activity:
- released 3.2.0 to acclaim as well as 3.2.1.
- extended ownership of convenience windows binaries from one individual
  contributor to a team that includes entirely new contributors (ongoing). 
- increased visibility of CouchDB sub-components that might be useful
  for other Erlang-based projects (as a trojan horse to attract new
  contributors, and initial reactions are promising).


## Community Health:
- notable uptake in unofficial Slack support community including more folks
  helping out with answering questions.
- increase in all around project activity as well.
  
Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear CouchDB Community,

I have just filed the following report with 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (13 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Balázs Donát Bessenyei on 2021-01-14.

## Project Activity:
- Due to summer in the northern hemisphere and [points at state of the world]
  slow progress on the project, but we are continuing to chug along on next
  releases 3.2.0 and 4.0.0

## Community Health:
- overall activity is down due to the summer for most contributors. Meanwhile
  our unofficial Slack channel continues to see steady flow of visitors seeking
  help and guidance.


Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear community,

I’ve just send this quarterly 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (12 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Balázs Donát Bessenyei on 2021-01-14.

## Project Activity:

- spent significant amounts of time dealing with the bintray/artifactory
  migration
- preparing a 3.2 release, including some new-contributor submitted
  features and bugfixes
- continued progress on the next major release (4.x, details in reports from
  last year)


## Community Health:
- activity across the board is picking up, including new contributors
  getting patches in

Best
Jan
—

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (12 years ago)
There are currently 68 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- Balázs Donát Bessenyei was added as committer on 2021-01-14


## Project Activity:

- Foundational work for the big 4.0 release continues at pace (see
  previous reports for details).
- Meanwhile the 3.x continues to receives new features and bug fixes.


## Community Health:

- things are a little slower overall, due to the pandemic, but overall
  activity is still at relatively normal levels.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## 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.

## Issues:

Response to feedback from last report:

>  jm: What was stopping users of this unauthorized binary provider
 from providing the patches directly to the Apache project?

Nothing, that’s not what happened. Patches for bugs found running the
unauthorised binaries went directly into Apache CouchDB. This issue
was about a third party making binaries available for the Apache CouchDB
master branch, which is prohibited by ASF policy.


## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (12 years ago)
There are currently 67 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Jonathan Hall on 2020-02-12.
- No new committers. Last addition was Alessio Biancalana on 2020-02-27.

## Project Activity:

Significant progress has been made to add features and bugfixes to the
3.x release line, a new release here is in on the horizon.

Also, significant progress is being made on the design and implementation
of the next major release 4.0 in line with our expectations of progress here.
See previous reports for more details on 3.x and 4.x.

We are trialling GitHub’s new Discussions feature for end-user support. It
is being used in excess of our expectations and helps us to keep the bug
tracker clean: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/discussions — We appreciate
INFRA’s help in getting this set up.

## Community Health:

It being the summer quarter for most contributors plus the COVID-19 situation
has decreased overall project activity. That said, end-user support continues
tat normal levels.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear CouchDB Community,

I just submitted the following quarterly project report to the ASF board.

Best
Jan
—

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention. However, various board members
requested clarification on this item from the last report:

- a rogue source that provided binary builds off of CouchDB master has been
  shut down. Unbeknownst to the project, a good number of critical fixes for
  the 3.0.0 release were found by users of this unauthorized binary provider.
  We are happy to continue to make sure the project complies with ASF policy,
  but we also want to highlight that we benefited from something that was
  technically forbidden, so maybe it is worth reconsidering some of this. Due
  to the release process, we are currently not in the position to bring this
  up in the form of a regular policy change request, we just wanted to flag
  this, in case someone wants to take up this cause.

df: this wasn’t a trademark issue, but rather a third party providing binaries
off of CouchDB `master` to the general public, rather than just dev@, which is
not permitted as per ASF policy.

da: done ;)

rb, curcuru: apologies for not being clearer, this wasn’t just third party
binaries, but binaries off of `master` for the general public.

—

In addition: we appreciate the guidance on permitting HTML emails on-list.


## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 67 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Jonathan Hall was added to the PMC on 2020-02-12
- Deni Burroughs was added as committer on 2020-02-15
- Alessio Biancalana was added as committer on 2020-02-27
- Juanjo Rodriguez was added as committer on 2020-02-07

## Project Activity:
- Released 3.0.0 to great success and accolades.
  - see https://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/26/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0/ for details
- We’re seeing increased beginner support inquiries on our various channels
  which we attribute to the major version release.
- Started 3.0.1 and 3.1.0 release processes.
- Continued work on 4.0 design and development (see previous reports for
  details).

## Community Health:

Significantly increased mailing list, GitHub and (unofficial) Slack usage
supports increased project buzz post 3.0.0. We’re happy and chugging along.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 65 committers and 16 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 9:2.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Jonathan Hall was added to the PMC on 2020-02-12
- Juanjo Rodriguez was added as committer on 2020-02-07


## Project Activity:
- The release process for CouchDB 3.0.0 has started. We expect a release 
shortly. See board reports from last year about the exact nature of this
release, including a discussion on features and backwards compatibility.
- a blog post campaign to accompany the campaign is in the works as well.
- a rouge source that provided binary builds off of CouchDB master has
been shut down. Unbeknownst to the project, a good number of critical fixes
for the 3.0.0 release were found by users of this unauthorised binary provider.
We are happy to continue to make sure the project complies with ASF policy, but
we also want to highlight that we benefitted from something that was 
technically forbidden, so maybe it is worth reconsidering some of this.
Due to the release process, we are currently not in the position to bring
this up in the form of a regular policy change request, we just wanted to 
flag this, in case someone wants to take up this cause.
- a large corporate contributor to CouchDB has an infrastructure policy of
only allowing outbound HTML emails, while the ASF mail servers allow
absolutely no HTML. This has lead to friction in getting individuals from that
corporation to participate in the official channels of the project. We’ve made 
due for the moment, but this is hurting our official activity as people will
go the route of least friction and start discussions outside of official
channels. While those discussions are not of a nature that make decisions for
the project, we are careful about keeping those on dev@, it leads to folks
missing out on discussions, if they don’t happen to be part of a discussion 
channel that’s more accessible than the plaintext mailing list. Again,
we are not in a position to pick up the mantle for this surely larger
discussion, we just bring up another data point on the issue.


## Community Health:
Community activity is in line with our expectations. We are seeing an uptick
of new contributions around in the lead up of 3.0.0, which people are genuinely
excited about.

[REPORT] CouchDB - November 2019

[Jan Lehnardt]

## 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.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 64 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on 2017-11-07.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jay Doane on 2019-01-05.

## Project Activity:
- project management tasks and work tickets to close up all remaining tasks
  for the 3.0 release are commencing nicely.
- foundational work for 4.0 is going on concurrently.
- a number of our committers are attending the FoundationDB Summit this week,
  to meet with the larger FoundationDB community (see previous reports for
  a detailed explanation)

## Community Health:
In the past quarter we’ve been in chugging-along mode mostly on all
official channels. The unofficial CouchDB Slack instance is seeing a continuous
uptick in activity, which might explain the decrease in user@ traffic.

A lot of work is happening in PRs as opposed to merges to master at the 
moment, which explains the relative shift in numbers there.

dev@couchdb.apache.org had a 2% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (153 emails compared to 156)
u...@couchdb.apache.org had a 75% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (36 emails compared to 140)
318 commits in the past quarter (-19% decrease)
32 code contributors in the past quarter (28% increase)
147 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (59% increase)
135 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (62% increase)
113 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (43% increase)
70 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (79% increase)

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 64 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on 2017-11-07.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jay Doane on 2019-01-05.

## Project Activity:

The Vote[1] to adopt FoundationDB as CouchDB’s future underlying distribution
and storage technology has passed unanimously.

See the two previous board reports for more context.

Current planning includes both a CouchDB 3.0 and a CouchDB 4.0 milestone. 3.0
will include the best version of the current, mostly Erlang-based project,
with many new features contributed by various project partners (but notably
IBM). This will be the LTS version for people who won’t be able to migrate to
the newer technology foundation. There are a number of technical limitations
that we are happy to adopt as a project going forward, but that might be deal-
breakers for some users. As such, we’ll serve those users best with an excellent
edition of the original technology stack. LTS-timelines are TBD.

CouchDB 4.0 which is already under development concurrently will include a 
mostly[tm] API compatible version of CouchDB built on top of FoundationDB. API
differences are going to be communicated clearly and migration paths documented
thoroughly.

For a little bit of context: with the addition of clustering, CouchDB 2.x turned
from an accidentally strongly consistent database (because it was a single-node 
database) to an eventually consistent database, losing some essential properties
in favour of scalability and fault tolerance.

With the help of FoundationDB, those properties last after 1.x are going to be
regained, while retaining scalability and fault tolerance, and while putting the
CouchDB foundational underpinnings on a modern distributed database stack that
would easily take us 10+ years to build.

IBM is spearheading this effort within the ASF and is adding more resources to
the CouchDB project in terms of development, release management, infrastructure
as well as project management

[1]: https://s.apache.org/couchdb-fib-vote

## Community Health:

All parts of the existing community are participating in the 3.x and 4.x 
efforts. While no new committer-candidates have emerged yet, there is a small
influx of new and promising voices.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
  with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
   
## Activity: 
 - Technical discussion for the move to FoundationDB outlined in the
   last report is ongoing and fruitful.
 - At the same time new features are added and bugs are fixed for existing
   release lines.
 - We are getting close to fully supporting arm64, specifically with pre-built
   binaries and CI coverage.
   
## Health report: 
 - Discussion levels are normal and focussed on the tasks at hand.

## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 15 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 64 committers. 
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months 
 - Last committer addition was Jay Doane at Sat Jan 05 2019 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - 2.3.1 was released on Mon Mar 11 2019 

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
  with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - Big News™: The IBM Cloudant team has started a discussion around
   replacnig the bottom ~2/3s of CouchDB (file storage, btree,
   distributed computing layer) with FouncationDB, keeping most
   API semantics, but allowing for faster evolution of much needed
   CouchDB features while building on a reliable, wait for it,
   foundation.

   For now this is a discussion, ranging across many threads covering
   everyting from FDB governance considerations, the detailed tech bits
   as they pertain to CouchDB, as well as overall project roadmap.

   This is sparked a huge, and very fruitful discussion, including a
   transition phase and long-term support for existing users, who for
   one reason or another couldn’t do the future transition.

   Tentatively, this would be CouchDB 4.0 while the next major release
   would be aimed at being “The best version of CouchDB we can make
   without FoundationDB”, including several long-awaited features that
   have either recently landed or are nearing completion at the moment.
   Curiously, discussing a potential 4.0 has sparked activity around
   getting 3.0 done sooner.

   We expect the discussion threads to wrap up before long, after which
   we should have talked through all the relevant details so we can
   make an informed Vote.

 - Preparation of versions 2.3.1 (bugfix) and 2.4.0 (major new features).

## Health report:
 - The aboforementioned discussion has raised dev@ mail traffic to
   rarely seen heights.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 64 committers.
 - Jay Doane was added as a committer on Sat Jan 05 2019

## Releases:
 - 2.3.0 was released on Thu Dec 06 2018

## Mailing list activity:
 - Just to show the increase in activity on dev@ alone due to the
   FoundationDB discussion.

 - dev@couchdb.apache.org:
- 538 subscribers (down -12 in the last 3 months):
- 254 emails sent to list (34 in previous quarter)

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
   with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.

## Activity:
 - Gear-up for the 2.3.0 release continuing our pattern of one
   big feature for every feature release. This time, clustered
   purge that even replication clients can make use of.
 - Near completion of getting CouchDB to build an run on arm64.
 - Continued activity on infrastructure like build tooling, CI,
   test suites (including a completely new test suite written in
   Elixir) to streamline our release processes, and simplify
   consumption of CouchDB in various shapes and forms.
 - Presence at ApacheCon NA in Toronto with two talks.

## Health report:
 - Project activity is steady and as expected.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 63 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Peng Hui Jiang at Sat Mar 03 2018

## Releases:
 - Last release was 2.2.0 on Tue Aug 07 2018

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - CouchDB is a HTTP/JSON Database with unique data replication

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Major update, released 2.2.0 with many new features and long awaited
   bugfixes as well as a sizeable number of significant perofmance
   improvements.
 - Started in-depth roadmap planning, which brought 30+ new issues in
   with extensive discussions on many new features and improvements.
 - Joan "wohali" Touzet represents us at ApacheCon in Toronto with two
   talks.

## Health report:
 - We had a decent push on getting the latest release out and activity
   is currently as expected in post-release and late-summer timeframes.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 63 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Peng Hui Jiang at Sat Mar 03 2018

## Releases:

 - 1.7.2 was released on Tue Jul 10 2018
 - 2.1.2 was released on Tue Jul 10 2018
 - 2.2.0 was released on Tue Aug 07 2018

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
- Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
  with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. 

## Activity:
 - We worked through a gnarly set of issues in 2.1.1 that will culminate
   in the soon-ish 2.2.0 and 2.1.2 set of releases. This was a multi-month
   cross-team effort that resulted in many happy end-users.
 - Updated CI infrastructure and convenience build dependencies due to
   major repos dropping one of our dependencies (SpiderMonkey 1.8.5).
 - We will have presence at ApacheCon in Montreal thanks to Joan @woahli
   Touzet.
 - A number of PMC members attended long-time contributor Robert Newson’s
   wedding in Windsor: https://twitter.com/rnewson/status/988141902313779200

## Health report:
 - Slowed down activity after busy Q4/17 & Q1/18, some of it due to
   industry-wide generally busyness because of SPECTRE, MELTDOWN & GDPR.
 - The project is doing fine overall, and is looking forward to after
   May 25th.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 63 committers.
 - Peng Hui Jiang was added as a committer on Sat Mar 03 2018

## Releases: 
 - Last release was 2.1.1 on Mon Jan 29 2018

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:

- A database with aeamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data
  to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.
   
## Issues:

 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
   
## Activity:

 - As per trademarks@, “CouchDB” is now a USPTO registered trademark.
   The project thanks Shane Curcuru for his perseverance in getting this
   resolved.
 - The severe CVEs reported in the last report are in the news again this
   month, as hackers are using it to install cryptocurrency miners. From
   a project perspective, there isn’t much more we could do to reach out
   to users (short of scanning the internet ourselves), but we continue
   to discuss better community engagement strategies, so more users do
   update in case of severe security issues (however futile the situation,
   we’re still hopeful we can improve).
 - Clarified PR-merge policy after an (in the end harmless) incident that
   saw a seemingly semver-major change hit master where two employees from
   a single contributing employer proposed and approved a PR. We now wait
   72 hours for semver-major PRs hitting master or release branches.

## Health report:

 - CouchDB issue #745 is currently binding most of the project’s resources,
   and impacts a number of higher-profiler users. Progress is steady, but
   slow. A new release is planned with the future fix, which will also
   address a number of issues left after the last 2.1.1 release.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 15 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 62 committers.
 - New commmitters:
- Alexis Côté was added as a committer on Thu Nov 30 2017
- Antonio Maranhao was added as a committer on Wed Dec 06 2017

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:

- Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
  with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:

- there are no issues requiring board attention at this time


## Activity:

- Released versions 2.1.1 and 1.7.0 in response to a critical
  secruty vulnerability being reported. Details are embargoed
  for a few more days at the time of writing of this report.
  CVE’s have been filed and should be out by the time of the
  board meeting.
- Released version 1.7.1 because 1.7.0 included an unintentional
  API break.
- Barring any other major security issues, this will have been
  the last release in the 1.x.x line.
- 2.1.1 included a flurry of other improvements and performance
  advancements an follows relatively shortly after 2.1.0 (August),
  showcasing the advance in CI reliability and breadth allowing
  for faster and more confident releases (just wish we had that
  in place for 1.x.x so we could have avoided 1.7.1, alas).
- Late response to a March Board Report question by `mt`
  (again, all formal apologies for the delay). In January 2017,
  CouchDB was in the news about data leaks and ransom scenarios,
  citing CouchDB’s “open by default” setup. In short CouchDB 1.x
  has followed an open-by-default strategy to make it easy for
  new users to get started. The main mitigating factor only
  binding to 127.0.0.1, and requiring an explicit admin step
  to bind to a public IP. 10 years in the strategy worked, but
  it is also time to shed that legacy. CouchDB 2.x default
  setup requires an admin password to be set, even on 127.0.0.1.
  This is a big improvement, but leaves a few more ways until
  we get to a closed-by-default sitaution. We’re expecting a
  full transition to be done by CouchDB 3.0.


## Health report:

- CouchDB is doing fine. Unprecedented  activity in Q3 of work
  that ended up in a release already. We aim to keep up a
  quarterly release cadence.

## PMC changes:

- Currently 15 PMC members.
- Nick Vatamaniuc was added to the PMC on Tue Nov 07 2017

## Committer base changes:

- Currently 60 committers.
- New commmitters:
   - Mayya Sharipova was added as a committer on Thu Aug 31 2017
   - Will Holley was added as a committer on Thu Aug 31 2017

## Releases:

- 1.7.0 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017
- 1.7.1 was released on Sat Nov 11 2017
- 2.1.1 was released on Mon Nov 06 2017

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hi Tiger,

please make sure to reply to the developer list, instead of just me personally.

CouchDB’s admin UI is already written in React, so there is no new decision to 
be made here.

In addition, CouchDB was one the first open source databases that came with a 
built-in UI that was generally usable, and it has helped project adoption a 
lot, so we’re disagreeing on its importance.

Best
Jan
--


> On 10. Aug 2017, at 12:42, support-tiger  wrote:
> 
> 1) re working with React + licensing -> Don't!  There are totally FOSS React 
> type alternatives such as Preact - Just say no to Facebook and to licenses or 
> anything that is not 100% FOSS. It's easy to say everyone else is using it - 
> but that doesn't mean there are not potential problems.  Just look at the 
> lawsuit over Java.
> 
> 2)  GUI for DBA work is non intelligent (put it nicely for the list) - yeah 
> we understand there are lots of "windows type" folks that love the flashy 
> point & click but the lack of any migration and settings audit trail for an 
> enterprise server system is a disaster waiting to happen.   Whether it's a 1 
> person developer or global enterprise, using non-trackable changes to the 
> database is just terrible practice so why waste precious CouchDB resources on 
> it.   Even the popular Ruby Rails framework has a specific database migration 
> system (which shows it is better to have settings or any schema set in code 
> scripts and just maybe one of the reasons Rails is so popular).   CouchDB has 
> a great url syntax for admin settings - if that is too difficult for people 
> to use they should not be in charge of data, period.
> 
> A better use of resources would be on better install and initial setup 
> scripts.
> 
> 
> On 08/10/2017 06:34 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>> ## Description:
>>  - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
>>with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.
>> 
>> ## Issues:
>>  - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
>> 
>> ## Activity:
>>  - Released version 2.1.0, details on the blog:
>>https://blog.couchdb.org/2017/08/07/2-1/ (tl;dr: a major new feature
>>for users at scale, tons of post 2.0.0 bugfixes, and:
>>  - Massively overhauled  test suites, jenkins setup, worked with Infra 
>> around
>>lots  of little and gnarly issues; all this resulting in being able to
>>make  more reliable release in quicker succession from now on. We 
>> haven’t
>>settled on anything yet, but  are discussing a release per quarter 
>> plus
>>security ad bugfix releases as needed. Special shout  out for PMC 
>> member
>>Joan  “wohali” Touzet, for primarily driving this effort to success.
>>  - Currently awaiting Facebook’s decision on licensing their React & adjunct
>>JavaScript frameworks, which  are in use in our admin UI Fauxton:
>>https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10191 — We have discussed
>>alternatives, but made no contingency plans just yet.
>> 
>> ## Health report:
>>  - The project is doing fine overall. We’ll be doing a dedicated drive for
>>JavaScript contributors for our admin UI after the licensing discussion
>>is over, and we have more certainty about future direction. Current
>>contributors are moving towards other areas of the projects, and it’s
>>a great place for people to get into the project without having to
>>learn Erlang.
>> 
>> ## PMC changes:
>>  - Currently 14 PMC members.
>>  - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
>>  - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015
>> 
>> ## Committer base changes:
>> 
>>  - Currently 58 committers.
>>  - Glynn Bird was added as a committer on Mon May 29 2017
>> 
>> ## Releases:
>> 
>>  - 2.1.0 was released on Mon Aug 07 2017
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Support Dept
> Tiger Nassau, Inc.
> www.tigernassau.com
> 406-624-9310
> 
> 

-- 
Professional Support for Apache CouchDB:
https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile,
   with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Released version 2.1.0, details on the blog:
   https://blog.couchdb.org/2017/08/07/2-1/ (tl;dr: a major new feature
   for users at scale, tons of post 2.0.0 bugfixes, and:
 - Massively overhauled test suites, jenkins setup, worked with Infra around
   lots of little and gnarly issues; all this resulting in being able to
   make more reliable release in quicker succession from now on. We haven’t
   settled on anything yet, but are discussing a release per quarter plus
   security ad bugfix releases as needed. Special shout out for PMC member
   Joan “wohali” Touzet, for primarily driving this effort to success.
 - Currently awaiting Facebook’s decision on licensing their React & adjunct
   JavaScript frameworks, which are in use in our admin UI Fauxton:
   https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10191 — We have discussed
   alternatives, but made no contingency plans just yet.

## Health report:
 - The project is doing fine overall. We’ll be doing a dedicated drive for
   JavaScript contributors for our admin UI after the licensing discussion
   is over, and we have more certainty about future direction. Current
   contributors are moving towards other areas of the projects, and it’s
   a great place for people to get into the project without having to
   learn Erlang.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 14 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 58 committers.
 - Glynn Bird was added as a committer on Mon May 29 2017

## Releases:

 - 2.1.0 was released on Mon Aug 07 2017

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description: 
- CouchDB is a database with seamless multi-master sync that scales from Big 
Data
  to Mobile, with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, and designed for reliability.
   
## Issues: 
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
   
## Activity: 
 - Beta phase for Debian/Ubuntu and RedHat native system packages
 - 2.1 release cycle starts
 - Major new replication scheduler feature landed and is slated for 2.2
 - Major CI overhaul done
 - Ran the 2017 Annual CouchDB Survey, result analysis is TBD
 - Adopted gitbox.a.o
   
## Health report: 
 - Project is running smoothly
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 14 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 57 committers. 
 - Jonathan Hall was added as a committer on Wed May 10 2017 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Last release was 2.0.0.1 on Thu Dec 08 2016

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description: 
 - CouchDB is a database with seamless multi-master sync that scales from Big 
Data
   to Mobile, with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, and designed for reliability.
   
## Issues: 
 - There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
   
## Activity: 
 - Post 2.0 release activities including helping users with new onboarding
   and migration of existing apps (it is straightforward), Sorting out all
   the small things that people find after a major release.
 - Continue to prepare a 2.1.0 release.
 - More in-depth discussion about project direction for 3.0 and beyond.
 - The 2017 CouchDB Dev Summit just concluded, results publication is 
forthcoming.
   - The Dev Summit is a small group face-to-face meeting (last held in 2012) 
that
 produces recommendations for the developer mailing list.
   
## Health report: 
 - Nothing outstanding to report, the project is humming along nicely. 
Nevertheless,
   we are working on measures to increase contribution yet again.
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 14 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 56 committers. 
 - Michael Hall was added as a committer on Sat Dec 31 2016 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - 2.0.0 was released on Tue Sep 20 2016
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 63 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 35 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months 

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - CouchDB is a database with seamless multi-master sync that scales from Big 
Data
   to Mobile, with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, and designed for reliability.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Shipped 2.0, 4 years in the making, 10+ years planning, finally coming 
together
   The release was a huge success, adoption, based on mailing list and JIRA 
traffic,
   is going well.
 - New logo (see http://couchdb.apache.org).
 - New slogan (see “Description” above).
 - Preparating for 2.0.1 and genereally faster releases (again).
 - Discussion about 3.0 and beyond scope. Lots of contributions.
 - Total of six talks at ApacheCon EU and Apache BigData EU.

## Health report:
 - Project is buzzing as expected. Decent update in activity post 2.0, mostly
   end-user support and fixing little issues. All well!

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 14 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 55 committers.
 - Benjamin Anderson was added as a committer on Mon Oct 31 2016

## Releases:

 - 2.0.0 was released on Tue Sep 20 2016

## JIRA activity:

 - 129 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 55 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
 - NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce 

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Final, final stretches for major 2.0 release (see last report for more 
details)
 - We are currently making release candidates available on a weekly basis for
   larger community feedback.
 - We are also running a blog-post series on various 2.0-related topics, two 
posts
   a week until end of August.

## Health report:
 - 2.0 release preparation buzz is envigorating, the whole team is coming 
together
   coding, testing, wrapping up lose ends, finishing docs, and the wider 
community is
   reporting back their experiences with the 2.0 release candidates. Despite 
the usual
   (northern hemisphere-) summer-lull, things feel very active and exciting.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 14 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Garren Smith on Mon Oct 19 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 54 committers.
 - Nick Vatamaniuc was added as a committer on Thu Jun 16 2016

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014

## Mailing Lists

- Business as usual

## JIRA activity:

 - 81 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 39 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description: 
   NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce 
   
## Issues: 
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
   
## Activity: 
 - Start on offcial Docker image for CouchDB 1.x and 2.x.
 - Fully automated and scripted CI on builds.a.o.
 - Started to seed “alpha” tarballs to early 2.0 build testers
   (These are not Apache Releases, just tarballs people can test).
   - Started receiving feedback and started work on resolving
 reported issues.
 - Continued flushing out of last issues for upcoming 2.0 release
   found by the dev team.
 - Both CouchDB proper and the Fauxton (admin interface) sub-proejct
   have each been accepted as projects at the RailsGirls Summer of Code
   (think Google Summer of Code, but with a focus on getting women* into
   Open Source).
   
## Health report: 
 - Nothing special to report, the project and community are gearing up
   for the 2.0 release, and activity is according to expectations.
   
## PMC changes: 
   
 - Currently 14 PMC members. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Michelle Phung on Mon Oct 19 2015 
   
## Committer base changes: 
   
 - Currently 52 committers. 
 - Ilya Khlopotov was added as a committer on Thu Jan 14 2016 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014 
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - dev@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 587 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): 
- 219 emails sent to list (332 in previous quarter) 
   
 - notificati...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 14 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
- 1437 emails sent to list (2660 in previous quarter) 
   
 - couch...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 46 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months): 
- 142 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - replicat...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 84 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): 
- 1 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - u...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 1315 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months): 
- 221 emails sent to list (207 in previous quarter) 
   
 - erl...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 190 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): 
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - annou...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 282 subscribers (up 21 in the last 3 months): 
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - w...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 17 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months): 
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - des...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 16 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): 
- 5 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter) 
   
 - l...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 44 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): 
- 5 emails sent to list (4 in previous quarter) 
   
 - market...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 59 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): 
- 100 emails sent to list (167 in previous quarter) 
   
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 74 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 47 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months 

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
   NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Activity:
 - Finally final preparations for the major 2.0 milestone, including:
   - major overhaul of test suites to acommodate new clustering facilities
 while rataining as many integration tests as possible.
   - implementation of the last missing bits in the 2.0 API.
   - start of plan to release a beta release to the larger community.

 - Major discussion (again) about the future of the “CouchApps”-aspect
   of CouchDB. Corrent resolution: CouchApps are not part of the project’s
   focus at this point, but we have created a new mailing list where
   CouchApp enthusiasts can continue their discussion and maybe even
   work on improvements without disrupting the mainline efforts of the
   project. — Special thanks to Greg Stein for advice on this.

## Health report:
 - We’ve added new PMC members Michelle and Garren in recognition of their
   continued overall contributions to the project.
 - dev@ mail activity is down from the summer quarter because we switched
   from discussing what needs to be done for the upcoming 2.0 release to
   doing the things that need to be done for 2.0.
 - notificatoins@ traffic is up nearly 2x for the same reason.

## PMC changes:

 - Currently 14 PMC members.
 - New PMC members:
- Michelle Phung was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 19 2015
- Garren Smith was added to the PMC on Mon Oct 19 2015

## Committer base changes:

 - Currently 51 committers.
 - New commmitters:
- Constantin Angheloiu was added as a committer on Mon Aug 17 2015
- klaemo was added as a committer on Mon Aug 24 2015

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@couchdb.apache.org:
- 586 subscribers (up 5 in the last 3 months):
- 342 emails sent to list (933 in previous quarter)

 - notificati...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 14 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months):
- 2797 emails sent to list (1578 in previous quarter)

 - couch...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 33 subscribers (up 33 in the last 3 months):
- 33 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - replicat...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 80 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)

 - u...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 1313 subscribers (down -11 in the last 3 months):
- 235 emails sent to list (216 in previous quarter)

 - erl...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 189 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - annou...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 261 subscribers (up 7 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - w...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 13 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)

 - des...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 15 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - l...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 41 subscribers (down -1 in the last 3 months):
- 4 emails sent to list (7 in previous quarter)

 - market...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 58 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 168 emails sent to list (206 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 101 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 84 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Report from the Apache CouchDB committee [Jan Lehnardt]

## Description:
   NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce

## Activity:
 - Finished import of third-party donations: Nano, couchperuser and
   couchdb-docker.
 - Started establishing release procedure for new project Nano.
 - Finishing up last blockers before 2.0 release candidates and final release.

## Health report:
 - Current activity is good, albeit a little damped quarter-to-quarter because
   of summer.

## Issues:
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## LDAP committee group/Committership changes:

 - Currently 49 committers and 12 LDAP committee group members.
 - No new LDAP committee group members added in the last 3 months
 - Last LDAP committee group addition was Robert Kowalski at Fri Oct 24 2014
 - New commmitters:
- Bastian Krol was added as a committer on Thu Jul 30 2015
- Johannes Jörg Schmidt was added as a committer on Wed Jul 01 2015

## Releases:

 - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014

## Mailing list activity:

 - dev@couchdb.apache.org:
- 581 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 792 emails sent to list (3012 in previous quarter)

 - notificati...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 1762 emails sent to list (88 in previous quarter)

 - replicat...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 78 subscribers (up 4 in the last 3 months):
- 8 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)

 - u...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 1324 subscribers (down -5 in the last 3 months):
- 195 emails sent to list (322 in previous quarter)

 - erl...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 189 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - annou...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 254 subscribers (up 15 in the last 3 months):
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter)

 - w...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 11 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (8 in previous quarter)

 - l...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 42 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 9 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)

 - market...@couchdb.apache.org:
- 57 subscribers (up 2 in the last 3 months):
- 148 emails sent to list (450 in previous quarter)


## JIRA activity:

 - 84 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 65 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
  - Accepted the Nano project (a Node.js library for CouchDB) into
Apache CouchDB. This took a while because IP-clearance for a
GitHub project is, well, interesting.

How are the feelings about the result, so far? Has this been a good
move, or is it too early to tell?

As discussed before, the CouchDB-Python project would consider
becoming part of the ASF project, as well.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

 On 20 May 2015, at 11:50, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote:
 
 On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 - Accepted the Nano project (a Node.js library for CouchDB) into
   Apache CouchDB. This took a while because IP-clearance for a
   GitHub project is, well, interesting.
 
 How are the feelings about the result, so far? Has this been a good
 move, or is it too early to tell?

Too early, we are still going through the legal motions. Actual work
hasn’t started yet :)


 As discussed before, the CouchDB-Python project would consider
 becoming part of the ASF project, as well.

I’d welcome that :)

Best
Jan
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[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Report from the Apache CouchDB project [Jan Lehnardt]

## Description: 
   NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and MapReduce 
   
## Activity: 
 - Massive uptake in marketing@ activity, specifically pertaining
   the framing of “The CouchDB Story”, i.e. how we communicate what
   we do to the world.
 - Switched website to git deploy, seeing immediate uptake in
   website contributions.
 - Ongoing effort to get over the last humps for our major 2.0
   release.
 - Accepted the Nano project (a Node.js library for CouchDB) into
   Apache CouchDB. This took a while because IP-clearance for a
   GitHub project is, well, interesting.
 - CouchDB will participage in the Google Summer of Code with at
   least one project.
 - Community vote for a new project logo. The PMC is now working
   with the most favoured designers for a final selection.
 - (Not necessarily Board Report material, but still a big dael,
   so I am going to include it: CouchDB made the ThoughtWorks
   Technology Radar: http://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques
   in the “Offline First” category \o/)
 - Finally, I’d like to voice my appreciation for the new board
   report tool. Thank you all who made this happen!

## Issues: 
 - there are no issues requiring board attention at this time
   
## PMC/Committership changes: 
   
 - Currently 47 committers and 12 PMC members in the project. 
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months 
 - Last PMC addition was Robert Kowalski at Fri Oct 24 2014 
 - New commmitters: 
- Michelle Phung was added as a committer on Thu Feb 26 2015 
- Tony Sun was added as a committer on Tue Feb 17 2015 
- Eric Avdey was added as a committer on Wed Feb 18 2015 
- Maria Andersson was added as a committer on Wed Apr 29 2015 
   
## Releases: 
   
 - Last release was 1.6.1 on Wed Sep 03 2014 
   
## Mailing list activity: 
   
 - dev@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 579 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months): 
- 2999 emails sent to list (2695 in previous quarter) 
   
 - notificati...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): 
- 87 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - replicat...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 74 subscribers (up 6 in the last 3 months): 
- 6 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) 
   
 - u...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 1334 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months): 
- 313 emails sent to list (363 in previous quarter) 
   
 - erl...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 189 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months): 
- 0 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) 
   
 - annou...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 238 subscribers (up 16 in the last 3 months): 
- 0 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - w...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 9 subscribers (up 9 in the last 3 months): 
- 8 emails sent to list (0 in previous quarter) 
   
 - l...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 42 subscribers (up 1 in the last 3 months): 
- 6 emails sent to list (1 in previous quarter) 
   
 - market...@couchdb.apache.org:  
- 55 subscribers (up 11 in the last 3 months): 
- 458 emails sent to list (325 in previous quarter) 
   
   
## JIRA activity: 
   
 - 110 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months 
 - 70 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months 

Best
Jan
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Professional Support for Apache CouchDB:
http://www.neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Description

  Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
  for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases

  None this quarter. Everyone is working hard to get 2.0 out.

Recent Activity

- Added Mango query language, contributed by IBM/Cloudant
- Final stages of 2.0 release preparations
- Continued major improvements to Fauxton admin UI.

Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 47 committers and 12 PMC members.

New committers:
  Lynette Nolan
  Michelle Phung
  Kyle Snavely
  Tony Sun
  Eric Avdey

New PMC members:
  None

Mailing list stats:

(Now partly generated with [COUCHDB-1])

  couchdb-announce:
  0 message since end of October (-2)
  222 subscribers (+15)

  couchdb-user:
  282 messages since end of October (-449)
  1334 subscibers (-10)

  couchdb-erlang:
  1 message since end of October (-3)
  We retired this mailing list

  couchdb-dev:
  3021 messages since end of October (+370)
  569 subscribers (-5)

  couchdb-commits:
  659 messages since end of October (-2046)
  97 subscribers (-1)

  couchdb-l10n:
  10 messages since end of October (+6)
  41 subscribers (+-0)

  couchdb-replication:
  1 message since end of October (-50)
  68 subscribers (+5)

  couchdb-marketing:
  317 messages since end of October (+84)
  44 subscribers (+2)

Issues
  There are recently no issues we would like to address to the board

[COUHCDB-1]: 
https://git1-us-west.apache.org/repos/asf?p=couchdb-admin.git;a=tree;f=board-report;


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[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases:

1.6.0 (2014-06-06)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.6.0/apache-couchdb-1.6.0.html


Recent Activity:
- Bylaws passed 
- Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement passed
- BigCouch merge in progress and testing phase
- New home of the CouchDB Blog is http://blog.couchdb.org
- Moving content form the old Moin Moin wiki to Cwiki and documentation in 
progress


Community: 

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 36 committers and 12 PMC members.

New committers:
 - Lena Reinhard

New PMC members:
 - Joan Touzet (most recent PMC addition from  April 10th 2014)


Mailing list stats:

announce 
 - 187 subscribers (0)
 - 1 message since May (0)

user 
 - 1368 subscribers (18)
 - 321 messages since May (-429)

erlang 
 - 174 subscribers (+7)
 - 1 messages since May (0)

replication 
 - 58 subscribers (+4)
 - 11 messages since May (-42)

l10n 
 - 36 subscribers (0)
 - 1 messages since May (-15)

marketing 
 - 36 subscribers (+5)
 - 411 messages since May (+99)

dev 
 - 586 subscribers (-13)
 - 1848 messages since May (-782)

commits
 - 104 subscribers (0)
 - 2174 messages since May (-481)


Board Issues:

We would like to see the board drive more standardized bylaws, community 
guidelines,
code of conduct and anti-discrimination policies across all projects. We are 
able
to share our experiences in building this for our community.


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[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript 
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases
1.5.1 (2014-04-08)

http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.1/apache-couchdb-1.5.1.html

Recent Activity
 - Started with weekly news with great success. Also available
   at https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/
 - The community is in the process of creating a CoC and bylaws
 - Ongoing work on the release 1.6.0. Actually voting on Apache
   CouchDB 1.6.0-rc.4
 - Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant
 - Good progress in reviewing the rcouch merge
 - Community work on migrating content to the new wiki started
 - Translation work going well

Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 35 committers and
12 PMC members.

New committers:
Robert Kowalski

New PMC members:
Joan Touzet

Mailing list stats:

announce

 175 subscribers (+24)

 1 message since February (1)
user

 1386 subscribers (-19)

 750 messages since February
(-336)
erlang

 167 subscribers (+13)

 1 messages since February
(-13)
dev

 599 subscribers (-3)

 2630
messages since February
(+1306)
commits

 104 subscribers (0)

 2655
messages since February
(-80)
marketing

 31 subscribers

 312
messages since
February
l10n

 36 subscribers (+5)

 16
messages since May (-191)
replication

 54 subscribers (+7)

 53
messages since February
(+28)

Issues

None.


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Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Blog post here: https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/board_report_may_2014 :)

Best
Jan
--

On 14 May 2014, at 13:19 , Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:

 Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript 
 for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
 
 Releases
 1.5.1 (2014-04-08)
 
 http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.1/apache-couchdb-1.5.1.html
 
 Recent Activity
 - Started with weekly news with great success. Also available
   at https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/
 - The community is in the process of creating a CoC and bylaws
 - Ongoing work on the release 1.6.0. Actually voting on Apache
   CouchDB 1.6.0-rc.4
 - Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant
 - Good progress in reviewing the rcouch merge
 - Community work on migrating content to the new wiki started
 - Translation work going well
 
 Community
 
 Including the following additions, CouchDB has 35 committers and
 12 PMC members.
 
 New committers:
 Robert Kowalski
 
 New PMC members:
 Joan Touzet
 
 Mailing list stats:
 
 announce
 
 175 subscribers (+24)
 
 1 message since February (1)
 user
 
 1386 subscribers (-19)
 
 750 messages since February
 (-336)
 erlang
 
 167 subscribers (+13)
 
 1 messages since February
 (-13)
 dev
 
 599 subscribers (-3)
 
 2630
 messages since February
 (+1306)
 commits
 
 104 subscribers (0)
 
 2655
 messages since February
 (-80)
 marketing
 
 31 subscribers
 
 312
 messages since
 February
 l10n
 
 36 subscribers (+5)
 
 16
 messages since May (-191)
 replication
 
 54 subscribers (+7)
 
 53
 messages since February
 (+28)
 
 Issues
 
 None.



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[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for 
MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.


Releases

  No releases in this time period.

  Release has been blocked on a number of issues, but is actively being worked 
on.


Recent Activity

 - Number of the core devs met in Vienna to discuss the pending merges.
 - Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork.
 - Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant.
 - Created a replication list to discuss specific replication topics.
 - New marketing list about to be created for new marketing team.
 - Confluence wiki set up, and migration being planned.
 - Review Board instance set up, and discussion about review ongoing.
 - Translation work going well.
 - Community-provided packages added for Ubuntu Precise and upcoming Trusty 
release.
 - Community


Including the following additions, CouchDB has 31 committers and 9 PMC members.

New committers:

  Nick North

No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012.


Mailing list stats:

announce
 - 151 subscribers (+20)
 - 1 message since May (-1)

user
 - 1405 subscribers (-26)
 - 1086 messages since May (+280)

erlang
 - 154 subscribers (+8)
 - 14 messages since May (-8)

dev
 - 602 subscribers (-4)
 - 1977 messages since May (+1097)

commits
 - 104 subscribers (-1)
 - 2735 messages since May (+1694)

l10n
 - 31 subscribers (+10)
 - 207 messages since May (+104)

replication
 - 47 subscribers
 - 35 messages since May


Issues

None.



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[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for
MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases

1.4.0 (2013-09-04)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.4.0/apache-couchdb-1.4.0.html

1.5.0 (2013-11-06)
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.0/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.html


Recent Activity

- Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork.
- Preparation of CouchCamp Vienna, a community run weekend hackathon.
- Successful run of CouchDB Conf Vancouver with ~80 attendees, 13 speakers.
  Videos will be available. Details are at http://conf.couchdb.org.
- Created an I18N list and translation team to drive translation efforts.
- Passed a proposal on using Influitive to boost our community engagement.


Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 29 committers and 9 PMC members.


New committers:

Andy Wenk

No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012.


Mailing list stats:

announce
- 131 subscribers (+37)
- 2 message since August (+1)

user
- 1431 subscribers (-10)
- 806 messages since August (+310)

erlang
- 146 subscribers (+25)
- 22 messages since August (15)

dev
- 606 subscribers (+7)
- 880 messages since August (-130)

commits
- 105 subscribers (-2)
- 1041 messages since August (+344)

l10n
- 21 subscribers (+21)
- 103 messages since August (+103)


Issues

None.




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Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Noah Slater]

Nice comment on HN:

I am a long time user and fan of CouchDB. It is great to see such an
active project. Those who were skeptical after Damien's leave were proofed
wrong. I am especially interested in Fauxton and Cloudant's BigCouch
merge. — js4all


On 16 August 2013 00:56, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

 Done!

 https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/board_report_august_2013

 Being a volunteer organisation, we rely on you to help us promote releases.

 Here is the official tweet:

 https://twitter.com/CouchDB/status/368154559488610304

 And Google+ posts:

 https://plus.google.com/109226482722655790973/posts/biAq1iqfxfS
 https://plus.google.com/109226482722655790973/posts/LkkruL5N2Ni

 We also have a Hacker News item:

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6221309

 And several Reddit items:


 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kgcar/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/

 http://www.reddit.com/r/Database/comments/1kgcm9/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/

 http://www.reddit.com/r/nosql/comments/1kgcni/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/

 http://www.reddit.com/r/CouchDB/comments/1kgcoe/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/

 Please take a moment to share these links with your friends.

 Retweet us if you use Twitter, and upvote us if you use Google+, Hacker
 News, or Reddit.

 (Note that Hacker News users may want to navigate to the item from the
 front page. I believe up votes are not counted when you link to an item
 directly.)

 If you like, you could monitor these threads and respond to people with
 questions. This is a great opportunity for community outreach.

 If you have any other promotion you'd like to highlight, please reply to
 this thread.

 P.S. Dirkjan, sorry for getting your name wrong in the report! :/ Can't
 change that now.

 But at least you have my apology on record. ⬏


 On 15 August 2013 10:30, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:


 On Aug 14, 2013, at 22:24 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

  Should we blog this? Happy to run with that.

 yeah, why not, it could be the first iteration of a monthly status report
 :)

 Good idea!
 Jan
 --


 
 
  On 14 August 2013 20:55, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 
  Hey everyone,
 
  I’ve just sent this report to the ASF board :)
 
  Thanks to Noah for compiling this!
 
  * * *
 
  Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
  for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
 
  Releases
 
  * 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
*
 
 http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html
 
  Recent Activity
 
  * Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
  * Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
  * Work is underway to document an official project vision.
  * Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
CouchDB admin interface.
  * Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will
add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
  * Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
which improves the build system, refactored internal applications,
and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf
awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds
across views.
  * Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already
shared with the community.
  * Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press
activity.
  * Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
  * Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).
 
  Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
  of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.
 
  Community
 
  Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
  members.
 
  New committers:
 
  * Dirk Ochtman
  * Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood
 
  No new PMC members.
 
  Mailing list stats:
 
  * announce
* 94 subscribers (''+38'')
* 1 message since May (''-1'')
  * user
* 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
* 496 messages since May (''-561'')
  * erlang
* 121 subscribers (''+16'')
* 7 messages since May (''-7'')
  * dev
* 599 subscribers (''-2'')
* 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
  * commits
* 107 subscribers (''+6'')
* 697 messages since May (''-262'')
 
  Issues
 
  No issues for the board at this time.
 
  * * *
 
  Jan
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  Noah Slater
  https://twitter.com/nslater




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 https://twitter.com/nslater




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https://twitter.com/nslater

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

On Aug 14, 2013, at 22:24 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

 Should we blog this? Happy to run with that.

yeah, why not, it could be the first iteration of a monthly status report :)

Good idea!
Jan
--


 
 
 On 14 August 2013 20:55, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 
 Hey everyone,
 
 I’ve just sent this report to the ASF board :)
 
 Thanks to Noah for compiling this!
 
 * * *
 
 Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
 for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
 
 Releases
 
 * 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
   *
 http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html
 
 Recent Activity
 
 * Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
 * Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
 * Work is underway to document an official project vision.
 * Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
   CouchDB admin interface.
 * Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will
   add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
 * Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
   which improves the build system, refactored internal applications,
   and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf
   awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds
   across views.
 * Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already
   shared with the community.
 * Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press
   activity.
 * Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
 * Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
   13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).
 
 Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
 of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.
 
 Community
 
 Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
 members.
 
 New committers:
 
 * Dirk Ochtman
 * Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood
 
 No new PMC members.
 
 Mailing list stats:
 
 * announce
   * 94 subscribers (''+38'')
   * 1 message since May (''-1'')
 * user
   * 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
   * 496 messages since May (''-561'')
 * erlang
   * 121 subscribers (''+16'')
   * 7 messages since May (''-7'')
 * dev
   * 599 subscribers (''-2'')
   * 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
 * commits
   * 107 subscribers (''+6'')
   * 697 messages since May (''-262'')
 
 Issues
 
 No issues for the board at this time.
 
 * * *
 
 Jan
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 Noah Slater
 https://twitter.com/nslater



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Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Noah Slater]

Done!

https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/board_report_august_2013

Being a volunteer organisation, we rely on you to help us promote releases.

Here is the official tweet:

https://twitter.com/CouchDB/status/368154559488610304

And Google+ posts:

https://plus.google.com/109226482722655790973/posts/biAq1iqfxfS
https://plus.google.com/109226482722655790973/posts/LkkruL5N2Ni

We also have a Hacker News item:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6221309

And several Reddit items:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1kgcar/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/
http://www.reddit.com/r/Database/comments/1kgcm9/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/
http://www.reddit.com/r/nosql/comments/1kgcni/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/
http://www.reddit.com/r/CouchDB/comments/1kgcoe/couchdbs_board_report_august_2013/

Please take a moment to share these links with your friends.

Retweet us if you use Twitter, and upvote us if you use Google+, Hacker
News, or Reddit.

(Note that Hacker News users may want to navigate to the item from the
front page. I believe up votes are not counted when you link to an item
directly.)

If you like, you could monitor these threads and respond to people with
questions. This is a great opportunity for community outreach.

If you have any other promotion you'd like to highlight, please reply to
this thread.

P.S. Dirkjan, sorry for getting your name wrong in the report! :/ Can't
change that now.

But at least you have my apology on record. ⬏


On 15 August 2013 10:30, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:


 On Aug 14, 2013, at 22:24 , Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

  Should we blog this? Happy to run with that.

 yeah, why not, it could be the first iteration of a monthly status report
 :)

 Good idea!
 Jan
 --


 
 
  On 14 August 2013 20:55, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 
  Hey everyone,
 
  I’ve just sent this report to the ASF board :)
 
  Thanks to Noah for compiling this!
 
  * * *
 
  Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
  for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.
 
  Releases
 
  * 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
*
 
 http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html
 
  Recent Activity
 
  * Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
  * Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
  * Work is underway to document an official project vision.
  * Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
CouchDB admin interface.
  * Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will
add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
  * Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
which improves the build system, refactored internal applications,
and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf
awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds
across views.
  * Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already
shared with the community.
  * Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press
activity.
  * Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
  * Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).
 
  Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
  of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.
 
  Community
 
  Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
  members.
 
  New committers:
 
  * Dirk Ochtman
  * Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood
 
  No new PMC members.
 
  Mailing list stats:
 
  * announce
* 94 subscribers (''+38'')
* 1 message since May (''-1'')
  * user
* 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
* 496 messages since May (''-561'')
  * erlang
* 121 subscribers (''+16'')
* 7 messages since May (''-7'')
  * dev
* 599 subscribers (''-2'')
* 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
  * commits
* 107 subscribers (''+6'')
* 697 messages since May (''-262'')
 
  Issues
 
  No issues for the board at this time.
 
  * * *
 
  Jan
  --
 
 
 
 
 
  --
  Noah Slater
  https://twitter.com/nslater




-- 
Noah Slater
https://twitter.com/nslater

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hey everyone,

I’ve just sent this report to the ASF board :)

Thanks to Noah for compiling this!

* * *

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

Releases

 * 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
   * http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html

Recent Activity

 * Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
 * Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
 * Work is underway to document an official project vision.
 * Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the 
   CouchDB admin interface.
 * Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will 
   add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
 * Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork 
   which improves the build system, refactored internal applications, 
   and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf 
   awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds 
   across views.
 * Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already 
   shared with the community.
 * Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press 
   activity.
 * Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
 * Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
   13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).

Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.

Community

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
members.

New committers:

 * Dirk Ochtman
 * Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood

No new PMC members.

Mailing list stats:

 * announce
   * 94 subscribers (''+38'')
   * 1 message since May (''-1'')
 * user
   * 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
   * 496 messages since May (''-561'')
 * erlang
   * 121 subscribers (''+16'')
   * 7 messages since May (''-7'')
 * dev
   * 599 subscribers (''-2'')
   * 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
 * commits
   * 107 subscribers (''+6'')
   * 697 messages since May (''-262'')

Issues

No issues for the board at this time.

* * *

Jan
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Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Noah Slater]

Should we blog this? Happy to run with that.


On 14 August 2013 20:55, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:

 Hey everyone,

 I’ve just sent this report to the ASF board :)

 Thanks to Noah for compiling this!

 * * *

 Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript
 for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

 Releases

  * 1.3.1 (27 June 2013)
*
 http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.1/apache-couchdb-1.3.1.html

 Recent Activity

  * Support added for latest Erlang/OTP releases.
  * Preparation for 1.4.0 release cycle has begun.
  * Work is underway to document an official project vision.
  * Work is underway to release in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
CouchDB admin interface.
  * Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will
add clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
  * Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
which improves the build system, refactored internal applications,
and additional user-facing functionality such as bonjour/zeroconf
awareness, global db changes feeds, replications and changes feeds
across views.
  * Work is underway on a plugin system, with early results already
shared with the community.
  * Cloudant announced the BigCouch merge, generating lots of press
activity.
  * Cloudant hosted a CouchDB booth and CouchDB party at OSCON.
  * Cloudant are organising 'Apache CouchDB Conf, Vancouver' on November
13th, 2013 (in line with ASF branding and CouchDB PMC cooperation).

 Our GitHub comment notifications have not been set up yet, due to lack
 of progress with necessary infrastructure tasks.

 Community

 Including the following additions, CouchDB has 28 committers and 9 PMC
 members.

 New committers:

  * Dirk Ochtman
  * Sue 'deathbear' Lockwood

 No new PMC members.

 Mailing list stats:

  * announce
* 94 subscribers (''+38'')
* 1 message since May (''-1'')
  * user
* 1441 subscribers (''-15'')
* 496 messages since May (''-561'')
  * erlang
* 121 subscribers (''+16'')
* 7 messages since May (''-7'')
  * dev
* 599 subscribers (''-2'')
* 1010 messages since May (''-996'')
  * commits
* 107 subscribers (''+6'')
* 697 messages since May (''-262'')

 Issues

 No issues for the board at this time.

 * * *

 Jan
 --





-- 
Noah Slater
https://twitter.com/nslater

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Hi all,

I just sent this report to the ASF board:

DESCRIPTION

Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for
MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.

RELEASES

   - 1.2.2 (4th April 2013)
   -
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.2.2/apache-couchdb-1.2.2.html

   - 1.3.0 (24th April 2013)
   -
http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.3.0/apache-couchdb-1.3.0.html

CURRENT ACTIVITY

   - Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's BigCouch fork which will add
 clustering capabilities to CouchDB.
   - Work is underway to merge in Cloudant's Fauxton overhaul of the
 CouchDB admin interface.
   - Work is underway to merge in parts of Benoît Chesneau's rcouch fork
 which improves the build system.
   - Work is underway to improve our test suite with a view toward making
 it more stable.
   - The documentation donation from Couchbase was merged in and shipped
 with CouchDB 1.3.0.

The docs are also available at:

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/

The project is undergoing an expansionist phase. The PMC is
focusing onbolstering the committer base, and the committer
base is focusing on bolstering CouchDB. As part of this, we
are also conducting several restructuring exercises. These
include: recruiting more committers, re-enforcing expectations
around consensus building and decision making processes,
re-evaluating our Git workflow, and switching to regular
time-based releases. These exercises are going very well
so far.

We have established consensus to have GitHub pull request
comment notifications sent to the development mailing list.
This will be an experiment. Our goal is to increase the
visibility of important activity that is happening away
from the lists. Our success criteria will be increased
activity and attention to contributions coming in from
GitHub. We will re-enforce the primacy of the mailing list
for development discussion and decision making, and will
keep a watchful eye for any issues.

COMMUNITY

Including the following additions, CouchDB has 27 committers and 9 PMC
members.

New committers:

- Dale Harvey
- Wendall Cada
- Alexander Shorin
- Ryan Ramage

No new PMC members.

Mailing list stats:

   - announce
   - 56 subscribers
   - 2 messages since February
   - user
   - 1456 subscribers
   - 1,057 messages since February
   - erlang
   - 105 subscribers
   - 14 messages since February
   - dev
   - 601 subscribers
   - 2,006 messages since February
   - commits
   - 101 subscribers
   - 959 messages since February

ISSUES

No issues for the board at this time.


* * *

Thanks to Noah  others for helping compile this.

Best
Jan
--

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

We added two new Committers to the project: Jason Smith and Dave
Cottlehuber. Both have been contributing to the CouchDB ecosystem and
Apache CouchDB in particular for quite some time.

The PMC chair finally got around to announce Paul Davis as a new member
of the PMC, the vote for which occurred last year.

A new major release 1.2.0 is around the corner. For 1.2.0, for the first
time, we will be voting on official Windows release binaries (courtesy
of Dave Cottlehuber's work).

Noticeable pick-up of activity around pressing issues, including
community members publicly applauding the efforts.

Git integration is going well. Developers are getting into the habit of
regular branching and merging of features and bugfixes. Sharing of
changes for testing and review is becoming easier as well. As cases in
point, a large refactoring of an internal component[1] went very smooth
as did the collaboration on a new security related feature. Regular,
smaller work and bugfixes have been going on at the same time and was in
no way hindered. We started documenting committer and contributor
workflows on the wiki.

PMC member Noah Slater started an inquiry with trademarks@ about a
potential confusion with the Couchbase brand. While the thread is
ongoing, Couchbase have already signaled eagerness to help resolve any
issues. In the past, a similar inquiry about Couchbase's line CouchConf
conferences was resolved to mutual satisfaction as well.

Project founder Damien Katz resigned from the PMC after posting
controversial blog posts challenging the future of the project.

[1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1270


On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
Jan Lehnardt
-- 

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Dear d...@couhcdb.apache.org,

The CouchDB PMC decided to CC this list with our quarterly
ASF board reports. This is the first one under the new rule :)

Enjoy!
Jan
-- 

On Mar 9, 2012, at 17:18 , Jan Lehnardt wrote:

 We added two new Committers to the project: Jason Smith and Dave
 Cottlehuber. Both have been contributing to the CouchDB ecosystem and
 Apache CouchDB in particular for quite some time.
 
 The PMC chair finally got around to announce Paul Davis as a new member
 of the PMC, the vote for which occurred last year.
 
 A new major release 1.2.0 is around the corner. For 1.2.0, for the first
 time, we will be voting on official Windows release binaries (courtesy
 of Dave Cottlehuber's work).
 
 Noticeable pick-up of activity around pressing issues, including
 community members publicly applauding the efforts.
 
 Git integration is going well. Developers are getting into the habit of
 regular branching and merging of features and bugfixes. Sharing of
 changes for testing and review is becoming easier as well. As cases in
 point, a large refactoring of an internal component[1] went very smooth
 as did the collaboration on a new security related feature. Regular,
 smaller work and bugfixes have been going on at the same time and was in
 no way hindered. We started documenting committer and contributor
 workflows on the wiki.
 
 PMC member Noah Slater started an inquiry with trademarks@ about a
 potential confusion with the Couchbase brand. While the thread is
 ongoing, Couchbase have already signaled eagerness to help resolve any
 issues. In the past, a similar inquiry about Couchbase's line CouchConf
 conferences was resolved to mutual satisfaction as well.
 
 Project founder Damien Katz resigned from the PMC after posting
 controversial blog posts challenging the future of the project.
 
 [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1270
 
 
 On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
 Jan Lehnardt
 -- 
 

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Noah Slater]

Thanks for this Jan!

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:

 We added two new Committers to the project: Jason Smith and Dave
 Cottlehuber. Both have been contributing to the CouchDB ecosystem and
 Apache CouchDB in particular for quite some time.

 The PMC chair finally got around to announce Paul Davis as a new member
 of the PMC, the vote for which occurred last year.

 A new major release 1.2.0 is around the corner. For 1.2.0, for the first
 time, we will be voting on official Windows release binaries (courtesy
 of Dave Cottlehuber's work).

 Noticeable pick-up of activity around pressing issues, including
 community members publicly applauding the efforts.

 Git integration is going well. Developers are getting into the habit of
 regular branching and merging of features and bugfixes. Sharing of
 changes for testing and review is becoming easier as well. As cases in
 point, a large refactoring of an internal component[1] went very smooth
 as did the collaboration on a new security related feature. Regular,
 smaller work and bugfixes have been going on at the same time and was in
 no way hindered. We started documenting committer and contributor
 workflows on the wiki.

 PMC member Noah Slater started an inquiry with trademarks@ about a
 potential confusion with the Couchbase brand. While the thread is
 ongoing, Couchbase have already signaled eagerness to help resolve any
 issues. In the past, a similar inquiry about Couchbase's line CouchConf
 conferences was resolved to mutual satisfaction as well.

 Project founder Damien Katz resigned from the PMC after posting
 controversial blog posts challenging the future of the project.

 [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1270


 On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
 Jan Lehnardt
 --

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

Released 1.1.1, a maintenance release with many important bugfixes.

Branched 1.2.x for our next release.

Moved development to git as a testbed for the ASF.

Verified in person that PMC member Noah Slater is in fact a human and
not as previously assumed a very advanced shell script.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with an HTTP API.

Released version 1.0.2, a maintenance release that fixes CVE-2010-3854 as
well
as a few larger and many minor issues around replication.

Began discussion on dev@ about a detailed road map for the 1.x series.

Continued process to procure an IANA port for the CouchDB API over HTTPs.

New volunteers on dev@ to help out with the Windows port.

Adam Kocoloski was added to the PMC.

Jim Jagielski identified a press article about the newly formed Couchbase
that
used incorrect and misleading language describing the Couchbase
relationship
to the open source project, and also a failure to identify the project as
Apache CouchDB. The marketing and PR folks for Couchbase have been notified
about the mistakes and informed of correct usage of Apache CouchDB
trademarks.

Branding Status: The project website and assorted assets are up to date
with
the Branding Board Report Checklist[1].

[1]: http://apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs#checklist

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

About to release maintenance version 1.0.2 as well as a new feature release 
1.1.0. New features include:
- native SSL support,
- many fixes to edge-cases in replication,
- database for persistent replication setups,
- HTTP range request support,
- new, scalable OS process handling,
- native HTTP proxy support for externals,

Major improvements on new replicator by Filipe Manana (development branch).

Discussions and steps towards integrating Cloudant's BigCouch, a dynamo-style
sharding solution with Apache CouchDB.

Discussions of integrating with more Erlang-native build systems.

Classified JIRA issues into easy for new contributors, medium and hard
to allow new contributors find easy tickets to work on.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Damien Katz damien_k...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

 About to release maintenance version 1.0.2 as well as a new feature release
 1.1.0. New features include:
 - native SSL support,
 - many fixes to edge-cases in replication,
 - database for persistent replication setups,
 - HTTP range request support,
 - new, scalable OS process handling,
 - native HTTP proxy support for externals,

- CouchDB rap song highlighted on the Wall Street Journal.

 Major improvements on new replicator by Filipe Manana (development branch).

 Discussions and steps towards integrating Cloudant's BigCouch, a dynamo-style
 sharding solution with Apache CouchDB.

 Discussions of integrating with more Erlang-native build systems.

 Classified JIRA issues into easy for new contributors, medium and hard
 to allow new contributors find easy tickets to work on.




[1] 
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/11/12/music-video-for-database-start-up-thats-how-couchone-rolls/

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Filipe David Manana]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Wendall Cada wenda...@83864.com wrote:

  Often times, I also have an issue with focus on commercial developers.
 However, with CouchDB specifically, the commercial developers are also the
 most active and helpful community members. Does it make a difference if you
 just say Couchio and Cloudant or give the specific developer names? If it
 does, I suppose those developers names could be used, but really this will
 just be translated into Couchio and Cloudant for everyone involved,
 effectively rendering this a non-issue.


I wouldn't say the commercial developpers are necessarily the most active
and helpful community members.
Look for example at Robert Newson. He's not employed by Couchio or Cloudant
and yet he's constantly helping users through the users' mailing list and
the IRC channel. And of course, he does many code contributions as well and
participates a lot in the development discussions.



 Just my 2 cents. :)

 Wendall


 On 08/17/2010 06:32 AM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:

 (resent with cc to board@, sorry!)

 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like
 everybody else, IMHO.

 On 17.08.2010, at 05:23, Greg Stein wrote:

  I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
 somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
 report.

 What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
 is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
 there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
 resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.

 Cheers,
 -g

 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 19:02, Damien Katzdam...@apache.org  wrote:

 This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.

 Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

 1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.

 Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release.
 Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair
 tool
 both receiving praise from users.
 http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html

 Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later
 containing a
 fix for the aforementioned bug

 Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for
 Linux
 users.

 Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting
 the
 Afghanistan Wikileaks data.

 Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
 marketplace. iOS support is underway.

 Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their
 high-availability
 CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.





-- 
Filipe David Manana,
fdman...@gmail.com, fdman...@apache.org

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world.
 Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves.
 That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Greg Stein]

I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
report.

What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.

Cheers,
-g

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 19:02, Damien Katz dam...@apache.org wrote:
 This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.

 Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

 1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.

 Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release.
 Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
 both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html

 Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing a
 fix for the aforementioned bug

 Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
 users.

 Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
 Afghanistan Wikileaks data.

 Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
 marketplace. iOS support is underway.

 Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
 CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Noah Slater]

On 17 Aug 2010, at 04:23, Greg Stein wrote:

 I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
 somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
 report.

Why not?

Should we consider corporate uses of CouchDB to be less important than other 
uses? As far as I was aware, this is just as much a part of the community 
activity around the project as anything else is. If this reporting period 
contains a lot of that, then maybe it's just because there was more of it. I 
wouldn't want to think we were leaving things out so as to make the report 
sound appropriately less business focused.

 What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
 is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
 there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
 resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.

I think the report covers all of that.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Filipe David Manana]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote:

 What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
  is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
  there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
  resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.

 I think the report covers all of that.


There are in fact 2 new committers: myself and Robert Newson.

cheers


-- 
Filipe David Manana,
fdman...@gmail.com, fdman...@apache.org

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world.
 Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves.
 That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Sebastian Cohnen]

Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
everybody else, IMHO.

On 17.08.2010, at 05:23, Greg Stein wrote:

 I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
 somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
 report.
 
 What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
 is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
 there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
 resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.
 
 Cheers,
 -g
 
 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 19:02, Damien Katz dam...@apache.org wrote:
 This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.
 
 Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.
 
 1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.
 
 Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release.
 Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
 both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html
 
 Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing 
 a
 fix for the aforementioned bug
 
 Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
 users.
 
 Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
 Afghanistan Wikileaks data.
 
 Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
 marketplace. iOS support is underway.
 
 Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
 CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Sebastian Cohnen]

(resent with cc to board@, sorry!)

Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
everybody else, IMHO.

On 17.08.2010, at 05:23, Greg Stein wrote:

 I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
 somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
 report.
 
 What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
 is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
 there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
 resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.
 
 Cheers,
 -g
 
 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 19:02, Damien Katz dam...@apache.org wrote:
 This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.
 
 Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.
 
 1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.
 
 Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release.
 Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
 both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html
 
 Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing 
 a
 fix for the aforementioned bug
 
 Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
 users.
 
 Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
 Afghanistan Wikileaks data.
 
 Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
 marketplace. iOS support is underway.
 
 Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
 CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Greg Stein]

[simple resend, putting d...@couchdb back on the distro list]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:10, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote:

 On Aug 17, 2010, at 10:34 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:

 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Andrus Adamchik aadamc...@apache.org 
 wrote:

 On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:

 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.

 If that's the case, then celebrate the developers, not their employers.

 Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
 developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 
 2 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
 companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. 
 when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise 
 interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but 
 so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects.

 Agreed.  It is about balance.

 The fact that zero lines in the report covered two new committers, and
 six lines were
 devoted to Couchio and Cloudant indicates that the balance in this
 report is out of whack.

 To be clear: there is no problem with six lines being devoted to
 commercial interests relevant to the project.  In a report of 60+
 lines, that would not even have been commented on.


 Agreed.

 A board report is NOT a vehicle for marketing an ASF project
 nor marketing a company. It is a vehicle to inform the board
 on the status, progress and health of the project.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Wendall Cada]

 Often times, I also have an issue with focus on commercial developers. 
However, with CouchDB specifically, the commercial developers are also 
the most active and helpful community members. Does it make a difference 
if you just say Couchio and Cloudant or give the specific developer 
names? If it does, I suppose those developers names could be used, but 
really this will just be translated into Couchio and Cloudant for 
everyone involved, effectively rendering this a non-issue.


Just my 2 cents. :)

Wendall

On 08/17/2010 06:32 AM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:

(resent with cc to board@, sorry!)

Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
everybody else, IMHO.

On 17.08.2010, at 05:23, Greg Stein wrote:


I don't want to hear updates about commercial developers. It is
somewhat interesting, but should not comprise half of the project's
report.

What has the Apache CouchDB PMC done over the reporting period? What
is the status of the community? Any new committers or PMC members? Are
there any Board-level or legal issues that came up and/or need to be
resolved? I'd like to hear what the *project* is doing.

Cheers,
-g

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 19:02, Damien Katzdam...@apache.org  wrote:

This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.

Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release.
Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html

Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing a
fix for the aforementioned bug

Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
users.

Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
Afghanistan Wikileaks data.

Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
marketplace. iOS support is underway.

Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Andrus Adamchik]

On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:

 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.

Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 2 
hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. when 
making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise interacting 
with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but so far it 
worked out well for the majority of the projects.

Andrus

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Jan Lehnardt]

On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:23, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

 
 On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:
 
 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.
 
 Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
 developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 2 
 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
 companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. 
 when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise 
 interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but 
 so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects.

My (Apache hat) reasoning for okaying these entries was that we did mention 
other significant extra-project news in the past. The Canonical/Ubuntu adoption 
was big news, as was the publication of the O'Reilly book. I classified these 
two under the same umbrella.

The not mentioning new committers was clearly an oversight.

In the future we'll try to keep extra-project news to a minimum.

Thanks for all your input!

Cheers
Jan
-- 

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Greg Stein]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:46, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:23, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
 On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:

 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.

 Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
 developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 2 
 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
 companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. 
 when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise 
 interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but 
 so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects.

 My (Apache hat) reasoning for okaying these entries was that we did mention 
 other significant extra-project news in the past. The Canonical/Ubuntu 
 adoption was big news, as was the publication of the O'Reilly book. I 
 classified these two under the same umbrella.

Yup. Both big items. We've seen plenty of book announcements, speech
acceptances, major deployments, etc in the reports. They *are* fair
game, and I don't think anybody is asking to avoid stuff like that.

What struck me about this particular report was $x is doing $y with
CouchDB statements, and I think great. but that is how they are
*using* CouchDB rather than what they are doing *for* the project.
There are lots of companies that monetize Apache projects. We *expect*
them to. But I'd prefer to see reporting on how those companies
directly contribute rather than their use. (yes, I recognize that a
company's success/use of our projects is a form of
advertising/support/help for our projects, but I take that as a given)

I'd be much happier to see a mention in the report that says $x has
committed their $y platform port into the repository. That would be
exciting, and I'd certainly have no qualms about a company name in the
report :-)

Cheers,
-g

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[J Chris Anderson]

On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Greg Stein wrote:

 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:46, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:23, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
 On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:
 
 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.
 
 Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
 developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 
 2 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
 companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. 
 when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise 
 interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but 
 so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects.
 
 My (Apache hat) reasoning for okaying these entries was that we did mention 
 other significant extra-project news in the past. The Canonical/Ubuntu 
 adoption was big news, as was the publication of the O'Reilly book. I 
 classified these two under the same umbrella.
 
 Yup. Both big items. We've seen plenty of book announcements, speech
 acceptances, major deployments, etc in the reports. They *are* fair
 game, and I don't think anybody is asking to avoid stuff like that.
 
 What struck me about this particular report was $x is doing $y with
 CouchDB statements, and I think great. but that is how they are
 *using* CouchDB rather than what they are doing *for* the project.
 There are lots of companies that monetize Apache projects. We *expect*
 them to. But I'd prefer to see reporting on how those companies
 directly contribute rather than their use. (yes, I recognize that a
 company's success/use of our projects is a form of
 advertising/support/help for our projects, but I take that as a given)

I think getting CouchDB into the Android marketplace is a huge accomplishment. 
It also isn't the sort of thing the Apache project is well set up to do on its 
own. So just doing this is giving back to the project in my book.

As far as the hosting stuff, etc, we've been giving back to the open source 
community (but not into Apache CouchDB trunk) as generic build tools like this 
(used for hosting, etc) aren't really suited for core CouchDB anyway: 
http://github.com/jhs/build-couchdb

The other stuff is nice because it drives adoption (which matters more than any 
amount of bugfixes etc -- who cares about a project no-one uses?)

I agree it'd be nice to spotlight the individual community members in board 
reports. I also think some of this is just growing pains, as CouchDB is 
starting to become larger than the Apache CouchDB project itself can contain. 
Maybe it is better to ignore the extra-Apache activity in board reports. But 
I'd rather include it, because I'd rather have one strong CouchDB community 
(with activity both inside and outside the project) than try to draw a line 
between different aspects of the community.

I understand that it is possible for some projects to become primarily 
commercially driven, with little given back to the community. At this point, I 
don't think CouchDB in anywhere near that, and I hope that in the long term, we 
never have that issue.

Chris

 
 I'd be much happier to see a mention in the report that says $x has
 committed their $y platform port into the repository. That would be
 exciting, and I'd certainly have no qualms about a company name in the
 report :-)
 
 Cheers,
 -g

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Greg, it's my fault for forgetting to report the new contributors. Apologies. 
Next report I'll se to it that more of individual community members and their 
contributions are included.

-Damien


On Aug 17, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Greg Stein wrote:

 On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:46, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote:
 On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:23, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
 On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Sebastian Cohnen wrote:
 
 Developers (no matter if commercial or not) are part of the community like 
 everybody else, IMHO.
 
 Of course they are. This issue is about the concept of hats. A commercial 
 developer working on an Apache project on a company time effectively wears 
 2 hats - an individual and an employee. Apache is an org of individuals not 
 companies, so here we expect you to be with your individual hat on, e.g. 
 when making development decisions, writing a Board report and otherwise 
 interacting with the community. This is a fine line to walk to be sure, but 
 so far it worked out well for the majority of the projects.
 
 My (Apache hat) reasoning for okaying these entries was that we did mention 
 other significant extra-project news in the past. The Canonical/Ubuntu 
 adoption was big news, as was the publication of the O'Reilly book. I 
 classified these two under the same umbrella.
 
 Yup. Both big items. We've seen plenty of book announcements, speech
 acceptances, major deployments, etc in the reports. They *are* fair
 game, and I don't think anybody is asking to avoid stuff like that.
 
 What struck me about this particular report was $x is doing $y with
 CouchDB statements, and I think great. but that is how they are
 *using* CouchDB rather than what they are doing *for* the project.
 There are lots of companies that monetize Apache projects. We *expect*
 them to. But I'd prefer to see reporting on how those companies
 directly contribute rather than their use. (yes, I recognize that a
 company's success/use of our projects is a form of
 advertising/support/help for our projects, but I take that as a given)
 
 I'd be much happier to see a mention in the report that says $x has
 committed their $y platform port into the repository. That would be
 exciting, and I'd certainly have no qualms about a company name in the
 report :-)
 
 Cheers,
 -g

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.

Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release. 
Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html

Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing a 
fix for the aforementioned bug

CVE-2010-2234: Apache CouchDB Cross Site Request Forgery Attack versions
prior to version 0.11.1 are vulnerable to cross site request forgery (CSRF)
attacks.

Filipe Manana and Robert Newson were added as CouchDB committers. 1.5
million awesome points added to the project.

Jason Smith released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
users.

Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
Afghanistan Wikileaks data.

Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
marketplace. iOS support is underway.

Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

This is the Apache Board report for August 2010.

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

1.0.0 and 0.11.1 Released In July.

Discovered a data-inaccessibility bug pertaining to the 1.0 release. 
Community developers quickly released a detailed announcement and repair tool
both receiving praise from users. http://couchdb.apache.org/notice/1.0.1.html

Just released 0.11.2 and 1.0.1 as maintenance versions, the later containing a 
fix for the aforementioned bug

Couchio released and maintains turn-key Apache CouchDB installer for Linux
users.

Lots of name recognition on a CouchDB application hosting and reporting the
Afghanistan Wikileaks data.

Couchio ported CouchDB for Android. Download and update through the
marketplace. iOS support is underway.

Cloudant makes fascinating teaser blog post about their high-availability
CouchDB clusters for their hosting service.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Apache CouchDB is a distributed JSON document database with HTTP API.

0.11.0 was released, a beta release. The next major release will be 1.0.

0.10.2 was released (security fix CVE 2010-0009).

Enhancements to the replicator, optimizations to file io and fixes to 
configuration are now in trunk.

Full windows support is coming with the latest releases of Erlang + CouchDB

CouchDB: The Definitive Guide has been published with O'Reilly. There's 
ongoing work to make the sources available to the open source community.

Our documentation wiki got a lot of attention thanks to Sebastian Cohnen.

Palm announces replication interop of their embedded DB8 with CouchDB. Work
to port CouchDB to Android is nearly complete.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

This is the quarterly ASF board report for Apache CouchDB.

--Releases--
0.11.0 Branch created. Feature frozen for 1.0.

New features in 0.11:
Enhanced authentication and authorization support
Attachment compression
UI enhancements to Futon

--Community--
Added new committer Benoit Chesneau.

O'reilly's CouchDB: The Definitive Guide is now available.

Added new security related mailing list after a security issue was found.

Couchio, a CouchDB startup, obtains VC funding and begins offering support.

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

This is the quarterly ASF board report for Apache CouchDB.

--Releases--
Released 0.10.0 our first beta.

New features in 0.10.0:
Cookie and OAuth authentication support
Windows build supports.
Continuous replication
Pure tail-append storage
More reliable and faster replication
Better RFC 2616 compliance
Several Futon (Admin UI) improvements
Native Erlang view servers
Filter API for filtered replication
Update API to parse client requests in JS
Windows Support

We are planning on 0.11.0 release for Feb. 1 and put CouchDB into  
feature

freeze for 1.0

--Community--

Voted to add new committer. We haven't finalized it yet,

CouchDB is included in every Ubuntu 9.10 install.

Mozilla Raindrop, a messaging platform built on CouchDB, was released.

Re: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Mark Hammond]

On 14/08/2009 9:00 AM, Damien Katz wrote:

--Awesomeness--

Our awesomeness is increasing by 53 Awesome Units a day.


I could have sworn we achieved significantly higher than that for quite 
a few of those days :)


Congrats!

Mark

[REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

This is the quarterly board report for Apache CouchDB.

--Releases--
Released 0.9.1, lots of bug fixes.

We are about to branch 0.10.0, which is our first beta.

New features in 0.10.0:
Cookie and OAuth authentication support
Windows build supports.
Continuous replication
Pure tail-append storage
More reliable and faster replication
Better RFC 2616 compliance
Several Futon (Admin UI) improvements
Native Erlang view servers
Filter API for filtered replication
Update API to parse client requests in JS

--Community--

Added 2 committers, Jason Davies and Mark Hammond.

O'reilly, Manning, Apress have books in development, and Wrox is  
looking for writers for a 4th book.


Canonical has announced CouchDB based services in Ubuntu, putting us  
into the default Ubuntu distribution and ~ 10 million desktops.


Libraries:
- 10 Libraries in PERL’s CPAN
- 10 Python Packages (pypi.python.org)
-12 Debian Ruby Gems (debgem.com)

Projects:
- 27 project repos on Bitbuckets
- 314 project repos on Github!

--Legal--

We had some small issues with out third party libs we include in our  
source tree. While we haven't found any code in our repos that is  
improperly licensed, we did find places where we failed to follow  
correct procedure and checks importing the code to the repos.


--Awesomeness--

Our awesomeness is increasing by 53 Awesome Units a day.

Fwd: [REPORT] CouchDB

[Damien Katz]

Begin forwarded message:


From: Damien Katz dam...@apache.org
Date: April 12, 2009 10:35:33 PM EDT
To: bo...@apache.org
Subject: [REPORT] CouchDB

CouchDB is a document oriented database.

- Community -

CouchHack is a informal CouchDB hacker event being held in Asheville  
April

19-22. We currently have 6 people attending and a sponsor. http://couchhack.org

- Releases -

CouchDB 0.9.0 has been released.