[REPORT] CouchDB - November 2019

[Jan Lehnardt <ja...@apache.org>]

## 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:
There are no issues requiring board attention.

## Membership Data:
Apache CouchDB was founded 2008-11-19 (11 years ago)
There are currently 64 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 4:1.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Nick Vatamaniuc on 2017-11-07.
- No new committers. Last addition was Jay Doane on 2019-01-05.

## Project Activity:
- project management tasks and work tickets to close up all remaining tasks
  for the 3.0 release are commencing nicely.
- foundational work for 4.0 is going on concurrently.
- a number of our committers are attending the FoundationDB Summit this week,
  to meet with the larger FoundationDB community (see previous reports for
  a detailed explanation)

## Community Health:
In the past quarter we’ve been in chugging-along mode mostly on all
official channels. The unofficial CouchDB Slack instance is seeing a continuous
uptick in activity, which might explain the decrease in user@ traffic.

A lot of work is happening in PRs as opposed to merges to master at the 
moment, which explains the relative shift in numbers there.

dev@couchdb.apache.org had a 2% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (153 emails compared to 156)
user@couchdb.apache.org had a 75% decrease in traffic in the past
quarter (36 emails compared to 140)
318 commits in the past quarter (-19% decrease)
32 code contributors in the past quarter (28% increase)
147 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (59% increase)
135 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (62% increase)
113 issues opened on GitHub, past quarter (43% increase)
70 issues closed on GitHub, past quarter (79% increase)