CouchDB is now officially Apache CouchDB
CouchDB has graduated from incubator to a top level project. This is a big step for the project. Congratulations to Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, Christopher Lenz, Noah Slater and everyone else who's contributed to the project.
As a special limited-time promotion,you can get free sugar and cream packets with your coffee at participating 7-11's when you say "I hope I don't spill this on the CouchDB." The promotion is not supposed to start until tomorrow, but I just tried it and it works already.
We are looking to release 0.9.0 in the coming weeks, which will finally include the security and validation features and will be feature complete enough to be called beta.
Posted November 21, 2008 9:30 AM
Comments
Congratulations :) Great news!
Nuno Job, November 21, 2008 10:34 AM
congrats!
Dan Sickles, November 21, 2008 11:25 AM
Great work. Congrats to you
Finn Knudsen, November 21, 2008 11:26 AM
Congrats!
Jon Sagara, November 21, 2008 11:43 AM
I guess this means there are no longer any reasons to delay my appointment to get a CouchDB tattoo.
Geoffrey Grosenbach, November 21, 2008 12:49 PM
Congratulation!
bsdemon, November 21, 2008 12:50 PM
Congratulations guys, great work :)
jmoiron, November 21, 2008 1:59 PM
I just tried it, but the 7-11 employee made me pay!
Burton, November 21, 2008 2:28 PM
cool! congrats to the team!
Is REST resolved now ? :-)
anjan bacchu, November 21, 2008 3:10 PM
Great work, Damian. I can't wait to look at it now that's growing up.
Andrew Pollack, November 21, 2008 3:52 PM
Congratulations!
Steve Sanderson, November 21, 2008 4:24 PM
Congratulations!
Nick Gerakines, November 21, 2008 5:03 PM
This is great news for everyone. And thanks for the hard work and sacrifice you guys have been putting in the project. Keep rocking!!!
Antonio Ognio, November 21, 2008 5:13 PM
very cool Damien, well done to all concerned.
Alan Bell, November 21, 2008 5:53 PM
Great news. Couchdb rocks!
Michael Hoisie, November 21, 2008 5:58 PM
Congrats!
Raj, November 21, 2008 10:56 PM
Congrats. That sounds important.
As a reward, I present to you the best lentil soup recipe ever.
-Ronnie
Ingredients
3 slices bacon (about 3 ounces), cut into 1/4-inch pieces
1 large onion , chopped fine (about 1 1/2 cups)
2 medium carrots , peeled and chopped medium (about 1 cup)
3 medium cloves garlic , minced or pressed through garlic press (about 1 tablespoon)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 can diced tomatoes (14 1/2 ounces), drained
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme leaves
1 cup lentils (7 ounces), rinsed and picked over
1 teaspoon table salt
ground black pepper
1/2 cup dry white wine
4 1/2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
1 1/2 cups water
1 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice
3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro leaves
Instructions
1. Fry bacon in large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until fat is rendered and bacon is crisp, 3 to 4 minutes. Add onion and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables begin to soften, about 2 minutes. Add garlic, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, and cayenne; cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in tomatoes, bay leaf, and thyme; cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in lentils, salt, and pepper to taste; cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until vegetables are softened and lentils have darkened, 8 to 10 minutes. Uncover, increase heat to high, add wine, and bring to simmer. Add chicken broth and water; bring to boil, cover partially, and reduce heat to low. Simmer until lentils are tender but still hold their shape, 30 to 35 minutes; discard bay leaf.
2. Puree 3 cups soup in blender or immersible blender until smooth, then return to pot; stir in lemon juice and heat soup over medium-low until hot, about 5 minutes. Stir in 2 tablespoons cilantro and serve, garnishing each bowl with some of remaining cilantro.
Ronnie, November 21, 2008 11:14 PM
Wow, and impressive acheivement. You must be very proud, I know I am for you. And good work on getting the 7-11 tie-in. Too many open source projects overlook marketing!
Ned Batchelder, November 22, 2008 7:20 AM
Very cool. Congratulations.
Mark, November 22, 2008 12:01 PM
Awesome! Thank you and Congrats!
josdavey, November 22, 2008 2:30 PM
That's fantastic news.
Andrew Chalkley, November 24, 2008 7:24 AM
Congratulations!!
Johan Känngård, November 24, 2008 9:41 AM
Congratulations and thanks for such a great project! I'm really looking forward to the beta!
Samuel Wan, November 26, 2008 12:48 AM
Great thing to hear of! This'll reduce my fear to have put wrong thing on my map.
Because guess what: I'll use 0.8.1 in production starting by .. tonight! .. 11PM CET as the DB backend for a small CMS. For two months of development and testing time the "alpha" didn't let me down.
[..] which will finally include the security and validation features
Yes! Yes! Yes! This would have saved me from implementing a HTTP wrapper for this myself.
Martin Gutsch, November 26, 2008 2:46 PM
Congrats!
Colliberty Easy Publisher, November 27, 2008 8:45 AM
Congratulations, this is great news!
I'm really glad to hear about the security and validation features approaching release, they go a long way to making Couch a well-rounded solution.
There's just two things I'm confused about: clustering and distributed map/reduce. I may be missing something, but I thought those were key parts of the CouchDB story. Shouldn't they then be included in 1.0?
The FAQ mentions "...long term goals of massive scalablility and high reliability on fault-prone hardware." Since the goals are described as long term, I guess that means not necessarily part of 1.0. Maybe it's just strange to me for a software system to not fulfill its primary goals when hitting 1.0; but maybe that's just rigid thinking on my part.
BTW, time to remove the incubation disclaimer from the project home page!
Keep up the great work!
Avi Flax, November 27, 2008 12:03 PM
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