RethinkDB community update: Stayin' alive!

We have some exciting news for you today, but let me begin by expressing our appreciation for you, the RethinkDB community! Your continued support over the past couple of years as we’ve gotten back on track means so much. We would never have gotten this far without continued engagement from the community. With that in mind, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve completed all the necessary tasks for continued development under the Linux Foundation and fundraising via CommunityBridge.

Technical updates

Since RethinkDB merged back from the fork, we’ve put a lot of effort into cleaning up and reorganizing the project. We have access to PyPi, to the infrastructure, and most of the official RethinkDB accounts.

We set up static code analysis for some of the repositories (this will be continued), released new client versions, fixed the enormous amount of bugs and released a 2.4.0-beta for DigitalOcean Marketplace, redeployed and moved the website and documentation site to Netlify, set up a new download server on DigitalOcean and our next step will be to create the CI/CD infrastructure.

What’s next

Technical

The next biggest change will be the CI/CD infrastructure for RethinkDB which will allow us to deploy RethinkDB version 2.4.

CommunityBridge

We’re happy to share that we are now hosting our fundraising through CommunityBridge, a crowdsourcing platform from Linux Foundation for open source projects. Learn more about CommunityBridge and check out the fundraising page here. We’ll share more about fundraising and finances in a future post.

Volunteers

We will need volunteers to help revisit the website’s content, check client and database documentation, create new examples of how to use RethinkDB, client development, database development, and evangelization. If you would like to help with any of the above, please fill out this form. Some projects will be compensated, we will discuss details in another post.

Get involved

Slack: Our official Slack group is active again. Please join us for updates, ask for help, and meet other community members.
Spectrum: This channel was created in 2018 when we did not have access to Slack. We will shut this group down on November 1st, 2019 as the community reported it is hard to use and conversation has slowed now that Slack is active again.
Twitter: We have not been active on Twitter recently, but as of this posting, it will be active and monitored again. @rethinkdb or #rethinkdb with questions (which we will RT for the community to answer), blog posts, RethinkDB projects, talks you’re doing, etc.
IRC: #rethinkdb on Freenode.

Thank you!

We honestly could not have gotten back on track if it was not for the persistent support of this community. A few notable thank you’s (please let us know if we need to add anyone to this list):

For help in development

For the community support

And for those companies who continuously support us

Atlassian - Gave us an OSS license to be able to handle internal tickets like vulnerability issues
CNCF - Who supports us day by day
Digital Ocean - Provides us the infrastructure and servers needed for serving mission-critical sites like download.rethinkdb.com or update.rethinkdb.com
Netlify - Gave us an OSS license to be able to migrate rethinkdb.com