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title: Board Report (November 2013)
date: '2013-11-15T00:00:00+00:00'
categories: couchdb
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<p>CouchDB submits a board report every quarter. Here's a copy of our November board report.</p>

<h4>Description</h4>

<p>Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce queries, and regular HTTP for an API.</p>

<h4>Releases</h4>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.4.0/apache-couchdb-1.4.0.html">1.4.0 (2013-09-04)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.0/apache-couchdb-1.5.0.html">1.5.0 (2013-11-06)</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Recent Activity</h4>

<ul>
<li>Finalising the merge of Benoit Chesneau’s rcouch fork.</li>
<li>Preparation of CouchCamp Vienna, a community run weekend hackathon.</li>
<li>Successful run of <a href="http://conf.couchdb.org">CouchDB Conf Vancouver</a> with ~80 attendees, 13 speakers. Videos will be available.</li>
<li>Created an I18N list and translation team to drive translation efforts.</li>
<li>Passed a proposal on using Influitive to boost our community engagement.</li>
</ul>

<h4>Community</h4>

<p>Including the following additions, CouchDB has 29 committers and 9 PMC members.</p>

<p>New committers:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://about.me/andywenk">Andy Wenk</a></li>
</ul>

<p>No new PMC members. Most recent PMC addition Nov 9th, 2012.</p>

<p>Mailing list stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>announce
<ul>
<li>131 subscribers (+37)</li>
<li>2 message since August (+1)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>user
<ul>
<li>1431 subscribers (-10)</li>
<li>806 messages since August (+310)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>erlang
<ul>
<li>146 subscribers (+25)</li>
<li>22 messages since August (15)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>dev
<ul>
<li>606 subscribers (+7)</li>
<li>880 messages since August (-130)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>commits
<ul>
<li>105 subscribers (-2)</li>
<li>1041 messages since August (+344)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>l10n
<ul>
<li>21 subscribers (+21)</li>
<li>103 messages since August (+103)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<h4>Issues</h4>

None.