Hi all,
I have 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: none
## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (17 years ago)
There are currently 73 committers and 18 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:2.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Glynn Bird on 2023-03-14.
- No new committers. Last addition was Tony Schmidt on 2025-03-31.
## Project Activity:
- CouchDB has applied to the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) Bug Resilience
Programme and has been accepted. The work items being tackled
under the programme will be developer experience and automated
testing improvements, that will make CouchDB easier to contribute
to by new and existing contributors. It will also reduce maintenance
burden.
- The STA partner for doing this work is CouchDB PMC Chair Jan Lehnardt’s
company Neighbourhoodie. Jan has abstained from any project decisions
about this to avoid a conflict of interest. In addition, the STA is
aware of all this and all safeguards are in place to avoid any potential
issues.
- A set of major new features have been merged into main that will address
very longstanding issues with CouchDB when it comes to storing time-series
data. We are still refining some configuration API details, but a new feature
version 3.6.0 will include the new fixes.
- In the meantime, the vote to release bugfix version 3.5.1 is underway at the
time of writing.
## Community Health:
It’s a normal y/y quarter for CouchDB, development has picked up after the
northern hemisphere summer quarter as per usual.
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Best
Jan
