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title: Board Report (May 2014)
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date: '2014-05-14 11:32:20 -0400'
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<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>
<p>1.5.1 (2014-04-08) <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.1/apache-couchdb-1.5.1.html" title="Apache CouchDB 1.5.1 Release Notes">http://www.apache.org/dist/couchdb/notes/1.5.1/apache-couchdb-1.5.1.html</a></p>
<h4>Recent Activity</h4>
<ul>
<li>Started with weekly news with great success. Also available at https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/</li>
<li>The community is in the process of creating a CoC and bylaws</li>
<li>Ongoing work on the release 1.6.0. Actually voting on Apache CouchDB 1.6.0-rc.4</li>
<li>Working on the BigCouch merge from Cloudant</li>
<li>Good progress in reviewing the rcouch merge</li>
<li>Community work on migrating content to the new wiki started</li>
<li>Translation work going well</li>
</ul>
<h4>Community</h4>
<p>Including the following additions, CouchDB has 35 committers and 12 PMC members.</p>
<p>New committers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Robert Kowalski</li>
</ul>
<p>New PMC members:</p>
<ul>
<li>Joan Touzet</li>
</ul>
<p>Mailing list stats:</p>
<p>announce</p>
<ul>
<li>175 subscribers (+24)</li>
<li>1 message since February (1)</li>
</ul>
<p>user</p>
<ul>
<li>1386 subscribers (-19)</li>
<li>750 messages since February (-336)</li>
</ul>
<p>erlang</p>
<ul>
<li>167 subscribers (+13)</li>
<li>1 messages since February (-13)</li>
</ul>
<p>dev</p>
<ul>
<li>599 subscribers (-3)</li>
<li>2630 messages since February (+1306)</li>
</ul>
<p>commits</p>
<ul>
<li>104 subscribers (0)</li>
<li>2655 messages since February (-80)</li>
</ul>
<p>marketing</p>
<ul>
<li>31 subscribers</li>
<li>312 messages since February</li>
</ul>
<p>l10n</p>
<ul>
<li>36 subscribers (+5)</li>
<li>16 messages since May (-191)</li>
</ul>
<p>replication</p>
<ul>
<li>54 subscribers (+7)</li>
<li>53 messages since February (+28)</li>
</ul>
<p>Issues: None.</p>