So, JChris is at Couchbase and developing on a mobile project that synchs with CouchDB. Yet the flagship product at Couchbase cannot do so. I wonder whether Couchbase is planned to synch with CouchDB in subsequent versions?
This is really bad news. Not exactly out of the blue, but there's no ambiguity now.
http://docs.couchbase.org/couchbase-manual-2.0/couchbase-int...
There's such a wide functional gap between CouchDB and CouchBase that it feels like the heart has been ripped out and placed into an entirely different beast. Of course the Apache project is still there, but I have grave doubt over whether it will continue to be actively developed.
To ease anxieties, it would be great to see a roadmap or some statement of commitment from those remaining in the CouchDB community. Including Iris and Cloudant.
A couple of observations.
While I am now a very gritty person, looking back over my life I was not always so in practice, although the potential was there. The inflection point was an idea whose import completely enslaved me. I have no more choice to work on it than I have over whether or not to feed my children. So sometimes at least it can be about surrender of ego.
The presence (absence) of other gritty people around me has been of no significance whatsoever.