Major Discussions

Vote: Accept BigCouch Donation from Cloudant (see thread)

The vote passed.

The CouchDB Bylaws have been published (see link)

These bylaws will be useful for anyone who’s interested to learn how the
project works, and how to get involved, in case you were unsure.

Vote (ongoing): CouchDB Code of Conduct & Diversity Statement (see thread)

This Call For Votes is for voting in the official Apache CouchDB Code
of Conduct and Diversity Statement. The text of this document being voted on can be found here. The intent is to make this an official document of Apache CouchDB. To cast a binding vote, you need to be a CouchDB PMC member. Others are welcome to cast non-binding votes. Votes must be received by    23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, August 10, 2014.

CouchDB 2.0 as a Docker container (see thread)

Question: a user asked if it was possible to provide Docker containers that would enable them to test unreleased versions of CouchDB.

Answer: there’s the beginnings of a Dockerfile already committed. Its good
enough to get a development cluster running, still it’s not necessarily sufficient for a full-on Docker image to distribute with all proper configurations exposed properly. People who are familiar with Docker and want to help make this a more robust image for the general public (rather than just developers), are invited to help.

Testing Views and Lists in CouchDB (see thread)

Question: a user asked for recommendations of a thorough method of testing CouchDB view and list functions?

Answer 1: Testing views/lists and others functions is simple, but currently will
require some work from your, the user’s, side.

1. You need a tool that implements query server protocol and
   communicates with it.
2. You need a middleware which will translate your function into ddoc
   (or takes yours), pass it via query server protocol and return the
   result back in nicer form.
3. Finally, you need a target function/ddoc and challenges to apply.
4. Bonus: integrate all this with your favorite testing framework.

Hopefully, you don’t need in first two points of this plan: you can try to reuse Test couchjs and build your testing framework on top of it. And you’ll be able to test your design functions without need to run a CouchDB instance.

On other hand, there’s an alternative way to go by making tests inside couchapp and letting CouchDB handle all the implementation details. To call the tests you only need to set some show function which will introspect the related design document, locate the tests, run them and print out result in nicer HTML page. As bonus you’ll get self tested couchapps and verify their correctnesses anytime you want.

Answer 2: If you are using JavaScript, you could look at using PouchDB to run a very simple preview of your functions.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• couch-web 1.0.1 – a boilerplate for CouchDB webapps
• express-pouchdb 0.5.6 – express submodule with a CouchDB style REST interface to PouchDB
• coucheye 1.0.3 – tool to publish CouchDb _changes to Amazon AWS SNS

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• CouchDB has a LinkedIn page now. Follow it to get regular updates about this project. If you don’t know our other pages in social networks yet: we’re also on Facebook, Google Plus (there’s also a Google Plus CouchDB Community), and on Twitter.

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Use Case: Cortana Limited, a UK-based company, are using CouchDB. They wrote us this week that it “allows us to focus on the algorythms that add value to our clients and take into account all of the data they submitted … . We think CouchDB is the only solution for the future of our business without much heavier programming and staffing levels using standard SQL.” We’re happy about this great feedback and that CouchDB is so useful for them. Read their entire email here, and if you’re using CouchDB in your company as well, let us know!
• Use Case: An easy introduction to building a single page web app (SPA) with Clojure and CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Limiting documents in temporary views
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB {error,req_timedout}

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: Is it possible to arrange response of a fulltext lucene in CouchDB?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB storing dates in array
• Stack Overflow: How to use couchdb-python to call a view with a list of keys?
• Stack Overflow: document update in CouchDB with html

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Get involved!

If you want to get into working on CouchDB:

• We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. Submit a pull request and join the project!
• Do you want to help moving the CouchDB docs translation forward? We’d love to have you in our L10n team! See our current status and languages we’d like to provide CouchDB docs in on this page. If you’d like to help, don’t hesitate to contact the L10n mailing list on l10n@couchdb.apache.org or ping Andy Wenk (awenkhh on IRC).

We’d be happy to have you!

Events

• August 14, Berlin, Germany – Time to relax! CouchDB Hack Night
• August 23, FrOSCon, Bonn, Germany – lecture: A CouchDB replication endpoint in PHP (talk)
• November 17-21, Budapest, Hungary – ApacheCon EU 2014; Early Bird Tickets are available until August 1

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior Strategic Web Architect, Portland, OR, USA
• PHP Developer (PHP, Ruby, Python), Tallinn, Estonia
• Software Engineer, New York, NY, USA

Time to relax!

• “We have time. Lots and lots of time. We don’t have to know and solve everything in this singular moment. There’s no other way to experience that kind of expansiveness without practicing, and I’ve only scratched a teensy tip of it.” – Life is short. And that thinking is killing your spirit.
• Motivational Cat Posters. Nothing more to say.
• For orientation: a map of the introvert’s heart

… and also in the news

• Tim Berners-Lee on creating the web: ‘I never expected all these cats’
• A tweet in reaction to the recently published bylaws: “That document was a great read. Stuff like this makes me happy and proud to be a CouchDB user.” (@stickbyatlas, on Twitter)