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Anyone familiar w/ the CouchDB community, can you describe how well it's working? From afar it seems to be a bit rudder less, but I could be misinterpreting th

by mey 13y ago

Anyone familiar w/ the CouchDB community, can you describe how well it's working? From afar it seems to be a bit rudder less, but I could be misinterpreting the situation.

daleharvey 13y ago
Yeh the 3 founders essentially being pulled off the project to a competitor definitely took its toll. However one founder has returned full time to the project, and while I would still describe it as 'in recovery' its definitely looking promising, there have been more contributors than ever this year, theres exciting work in progress in the works including this bigcouch merge and fauxton, as ell as couch related project like hood.ie and (forgive the self promotion) pouchdb.com So its looking up, this email definitely sums up the current enthusiam for me - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/browser http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307....
- nslater 13y ago
  Dale, did you mean to link to this: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/%3C3CD8BEDD-EEE0-4C39-8DCA-81D92C226831@apache.org%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307....
  - daleharvey 13y ago
    I did cheers
  - evangineer 13y ago
    I found Jan Lehnardt's vision for CouchDB very compelling. It allows CouchDB to be the feature-rich core of a large, complex ecosystem, yet retain a ruthless focus on being the best multi-master replicating database available.
    - janl 13y ago
      Thank you :)
  - evangineer 13y ago
    See also Benoit Chesneau's CouchDB vision which he has partly implemented in his own fork: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/%3C1A7DC502-29E9-48A3-AD82-D98A331E180E@apache.org%3E https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307...
    - kinleyd 13y ago
      Benoit is doing a great job contributing to CouchDB. He also moderates the CouchDB community on G+: https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826 https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826
- fizzbar 13y ago
  I should observe that daleharvey is being very modest by the casual mention of PouchDB, which I think is actually one of the coolest things the Couch ecosystem has going for it right now. :)
  - jchrisa 13y ago
    PouchDB is serious. I hope Mozilla picks it up for their mobile OS.
self 13y ago
touchdb/couchbase-lite is pretty active. I use that to replicate data from a CouchDB cluster to Android and iOS devices, for a game.
mlmilleratmit 13y ago
The community is about pi/2 ahead of the external perception. We're a year away from losing the founder and the brand confusion with membase (unfortunate). That said, the committer base has nearly doubled in the last year and the project is really starting to move. I think the closer you get to the project the more excited you'll find people. I think the next few years will be very good for CouchDB.

by mey 13y ago

Anyone familiar w/ the CouchDB community, can you describe how well it's working? From afar it seems to be a bit rudder less, but I could be misinterpreting the situation.

daleharvey 13y ago

Yeh the 3 founders essentially being pulled off the project to a competitor definitely took its toll. However one founder has returned full time to the project, and while I would still describe it as 'in recovery' its definitely looking promising, there have been more contributors than ever this year, theres exciting work in progress in the works including this bigcouch merge and fauxton, as ell as couch related project like hood.ie and (forgive the self promotion) pouchdb.com So its looking up, this email definitely sums up the current enthusiam for me - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/browser http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307....

nslater 13y ago
Dale, did you mean to link to this: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/%3C3CD8BEDD-EEE0-4C39-8DCA-81D92C226831@apache.org%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307....
- daleharvey 13y ago
  I did cheers
- evangineer 13y ago
  I found Jan Lehnardt's vision for CouchDB very compelling. It allows CouchDB to be the feature-rich core of a large, complex ecosystem, yet retain a ruthless focus on being the best multi-master replicating database available.
  - janl 13y ago
    Thank you :)
- evangineer 13y ago
  See also Benoit Chesneau's CouchDB vision which he has partly implemented in his own fork: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307.mbox/%3C1A7DC502-29E9-48A3-AD82-D98A331E180E@apache.org%3E https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201307...
  - kinleyd 13y ago
    Benoit is doing a great job contributing to CouchDB. He also moderates the CouchDB community on G+: https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826 https://plus.google.com/communities/112687873154936256826
fizzbar 13y ago
I should observe that daleharvey is being very modest by the casual mention of PouchDB, which I think is actually one of the coolest things the Couch ecosystem has going for it right now. :)
- jchrisa 13y ago
  PouchDB is serious. I hope Mozilla picks it up for their mobile OS.

self 13y ago

touchdb/couchbase-lite is pretty active. I use that to replicate data from a CouchDB cluster to Android and iOS devices, for a game.

mlmilleratmit 13y ago

The community is about pi/2 ahead of the external perception. We're a year away from losing the founder and the brand confusion with membase (unfortunate). That said, the committer base has nearly doubled in the last year and the project is really starting to move. I think the closer you get to the project the more excited you'll find people. I think the next few years will be very good for CouchDB.