The intended use of CouchDB in UbuntuOne seemed to be tailor fit with the technical design. (Distributed master/master replication and resolution, eventual consistency etc)
I'd love a write up with more technical details describing the issues.
I'd love a write up with more technical details describing the issues.
In short, it boils down to problems around authentication while sharing by means of replication.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't be surprised if it never really comes out. Company proprietary information and all that.
To me, it sounds like couchdb just failed to scale in a big way and revealing how would basically kill the project, so Canonical are trying to do the polite thing.