2.1.0 milestone progress report

[Joan Touzet <wo...@apache.org>]

Hi everyone,

Here are the results of the progress towards the 2.1.0 milestone
as captured in our issue tracking system (GitHub Issues).

    https://github.com/apache/couchdb/milestone/2

At present, we have just 10 of 55 tickets against the 2.1.0 milestone
that remain open. Broken down:

* 1 minor feature ticket remains:
  * #593, improving the _cluster_setup endpoint/Fauxton wizard for
    single-node automatic setup

* 7 test-case related failures remain:
  * 3 are related to the JavaScript test suite
  * 4 are related to the Erlang EUnit test suite
  * 6 of these appear to be related to flaky test cases
  * 1 is a single occurrence of a replication failure from June 3
    and has not recurred since then, but deserves more investigation
    because of the failure mode

* 1 is to update the documentation for the 2.1 "What's New" page

* 1 is build pipeline related, and strictly speaking does not block
  a 2.1 release. It addresses automation of package building,
  publication of "convenience builds" for those binaries, and
  migration of the Docker image into the apache/couchdb namespace

In my opinion, the priority order of these tasks should be:

* #593 (Complete update of the setup wizard for standalone single nodes)
* #574 (One-off attachment-related replication failure in couch_att)
* Cleanup on remaining 6 test case failure tickets
* #683 ("What's New in 2.1")
* Package building & publication work (some work depends on Apache Infra)

There has been significant progress in the past week, and I'd like to
personally thank everyone involved. I am feeling more confident that
we are ready to release.

-Joan