Congratulations and a hearty round of applause are in order. Noah Slater, speaking on behalf of the Apache CouchDB Project Management Committee, recently announced that our very own Paul Davis has been appointed to that very PMC. According to Noah’s email to the CouchDB user and dev lists:

Paul Joseph Davis, a long time contributor to the CouchDB project, has been appointed to the PMC. He’s an asset to this community, and we’re delighted to have him on board. Please take a moment to congratulate him and show your appreciation for all his hard work so far.

Paul is an outstanding engineer and a pillar of the CouchDB community. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to have lured him to Cloudant last fall. He continues to be a staggering force within Cloudant, working on all aspects of our product, and still has the energy to contribute heavily to CouchDB. It’s a pleasure to see him rewarded for his efforts.

I have no doubt that he will make a fantastic member of the CouchDB PMC. With Paul helping to steer the project, and with version 2.0 coming up this year, I believe CouchDB has a very bright 2012 ahead.