CouchDB Weekly Meeting (see summary)

• CouchDB Day Hamburg: photos from the event will be shared on Flickr (update after the meeting: the photos can be found here)
• Packaging CouchDB 2.0: the first PR for creating a CouchDB 2.0 tarball is up here, feedback is very welcome (especially for different platforms)
• Remaining CouchDB 2.0 tasks: document with missing items is here, missing tasks and blockers will be added to Jira
• Moving the “website group” and CouchDB Website to git
• nano contribution to the Apache Software Foundation: community members will look into the code, volunteer on the Contributors Licensing Agreement signing process

Major Discussions

The latest CouchDB Report (SEE THREAD)

You can find the latest report on CouchDB here.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• ember-couchdb-kit 1.0.1 – an Ember.js adapter for Apache CouchDB
• beanbag 1.4.1 – generic CouchDB driver built upon request
• clerk 0.8.0 – CouchDB library for Node and the browser
• FlyCouchDB 0.2.0 – migration tool for CouchDB
• pouchdb-replication-stream 1.2.0 – PouchDB/CouchDB replication as a stream
• update-couch-designs 0.3.1 – a command to insert design documents into a CouchDB database
• pouchdb-load 1.3.2 – PouchDB Load – load dumped CouchDB/PouchDB databases on the client

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• CouchDB Day Hamburg 2015 – recap with story, photos and videos
• How PouchDB Adapters work
• How to organise an event?
• PouchDB and synchronizing databases (presentation video)
• Practical CouchDB for Developers (commercial CouchDB course)

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Use Case: Export & Import a Database with CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: How do you authenticate against a CouchDB server when using the couchrest gem?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB – Separate database for each user?
• Stack Overflow: Can couch db be used for a document repository?

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: stop words for CouchDB Lucene
• Stack Overflow: Data missing after page refresh using AngularJS and PouchDB, CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB query for values calculated from key input
• Stack Overflow: Passing values to a map function – CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Getting newest docs from CouchDB when looking by multiple keys

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!
• CouchDB has a new wiki. Help us move content from the old to the new one!
• Can you help with Web Design, Development or UX for our Admin Console? No Erlang skills required! – Get in touch with us.
• 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 on board!

New Committer

• Eric Avdey (IRC nick: eiri; Apache ID: eiri) has been elected as a CouchDB committer. Welcome to CouchDB, Eric!
• Welcome as well to Tony Sun (IRC nick: tonysun83; Apache ID: tonysun83; Twitter: TonyS0427), who has been elected as a CouchDB committer last week. Welcome on board!

Events

• February 26, Munich, Germany: Munich Node.js User Group
• March 09, Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg BEAMers – Erlang and Elixir User Group

Time to relax!

• “I felt that same beautiful freedom writing code that I knew and loved from skating. Compared with what skate culture had become, everything about tech felt fresh and possible. Where skateboarding now celebrated destruction, computer culture celebrated creation.” – Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture. Just Not How to Be a Meritocracy
• “We all want to do something or be something and have it be okay with everyone. We talk about how we don’t care what people think, but what we really mean is that we only care what the people we care about think. We care about potential buyers/clients. We care about our family, friends, people we meet on the street or interact with online.” – Mary Cassatt
• “Craft comes from learning the lessons and building new ways of doing things from experience and iteration. Craft is something we can teach the ones coming behind us. And by teaching craft to the next generation, we pay back those who came alongside us when we were young. And it can be as simple as passing an idea on.” – On being generous
• “In 2011, after 15 years, she left before achieving a management position.” – Women are leaving the tech industry in droves
• “We’re happy to tell people to disable security features in order to install third-party software. We’re happy to tell people to download and build source code without providing any meaningful way to verify that it hasn’t been tampered with. Install methods for popular utilities often still start “curl | sudo bash”. This isn’t good enough.” – It has been 0 days since the last significant security failure. It always will be.

… and also in the news

• “CouchDB is always my favourite example of a great REST implementation” (@CodeStars, on Twitter)
• “Teaching myself Node.js, AngularJS, CouchDB, tied together with Yeoman. This is pretty awesome.” (@jimmywim, on Twitter)