The State of CouchDB With Comments

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With the whole confusion surrounding and the lack of energy in the Couch[addsuffixhere] world, my attention has slowly shifted away. Thus, it was only last night that I’ve read Jan Lehnardt’s “State of CouchDB” post.

Couple of notes:

Jan Lehnardt is out of Couchbase (as an employee) and plans to focus again (a part of his time) on Apache CouchDB
he’s the first person directly related to CouchDB that finally accepts publicly the whole confusion created around CouchDB and the companies connected in some way or another to it. I was really, really tired repeating this for the last 2 years.
“people who really get to know CouchDB are extremely passionate about it” — I read this as passive aggressive style. According to my data the people interested in CouchDB were fewer and fewer by the day.
there are plans for what’s coming next in CouchDB. The post gives a short list of 4 things, but the real ones are in the gist I’ve linked to earlier
- BigCouch merging has been mentioned for so long that right now it feels like “waiting for the unicorn”
Jan Lehnardt mentions (and is excited) about the alphabet of _ouchDB projects. I’ll say it one more time: they’re probably cool, but long term they’ll perpetuate the confusion. Unfortunately there’s nothing much to be done now.
I’m glad to read a state of a union from a person that has been involved for so long with CouchDB. But in the world of open source, it’s only the facts that matter. Sometimes reviving a project or regaining users is more difficult than starting from scratch.
“We had a hard year, lost our traction, and we still came out on top.” Nope.