## 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.
