Original Authors:

Damien Katz, Jan Lehnardt, Noah Slater, Christopher Lenz, J. Chris Anderson

Current committers:

Damien Katz

Original developer and remains the project lead.

Jan Lehnardt

Worked on the original UNIX port and now works on all ends in CouchDB.
He is a freelancing CouchDB consultant and gives presentations around the
world.

Noah Slater

Developed and maintains the Autotools build system and application
infrastructure. He is CouchDB’s release manager and maintains a number of
related packages for Debian GNU/Linux.

Christopher Lenz

Developed and maintains Futon, the Web administration console. He works on
the JavaScript view engine, SpiderMonkey and MochiWeb integration in
addition to an external Python client.

J. Chris Anderson

Upgraded the Erlang JSON term format. Integrates community patches,
particularly related to the HTTP API and the MapReduce system. Gives talks and
presentations about CouchDB, with an eye toward recruiting more developers.

Paul J. Davis

Developed features for the HTTP API as well as helped with recent upgrades
to the MapReduce system. Spends time tracking down various bugs reported in
JIRA.

Adam Kocoloski

Maintains and extends the replicator. Hacks on various other parts of the
core database.

Mark Hammond

Windows support.

Jason Davies

Developed various authentication features including cookie-based
authentication and OAuth support.