CouchDB IRC Meeting

The next CouchDB IRC Meeting will take place on February 18th, 8pm GMT (you can check your local time e.g. here). Everyone is welcome to attend this meeting. If you have anything to put on the agenda, please reply to this email or mention it at the start of the meeting. The meeting will take place in irc://irc.freenode.net/couchdb-meeting, you can also access it online by following this link.

Major Discussions

Mango working on CouchDB Master (see thread)

Mango has just been enabled in CouchDB Master, so you can now play with it. You should be able to follow this example.

Release of CouchDB 2.0? (SEE THREAD)

Question: A user asked about the expected release date or time frame for CouchDB 2.0

Answer: There is no official release date yet, especially since there is still some work to be done – e.g. the setup topics and also documentation are not yet finished (in parts not even started). You can of course already test CouchDB 2.0 in the Developer Preview.

CouchDB-Scala – a new purely functional Scala client for CouchDB (see thread)

The first public release of CouchDB-Scala has been announced – a purely functional Scala client for CouchDB. You can find the project on GitHub, a few details and notes about it are in the Wiki.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• hapi-couchdb 0.2.0 – a Hapi plugin providing a CouchDB connection
• simplicate 1.1.3 – Minimal syntax for triggering CouchDB replication from the command line. Also useful for generating curl commands that you can share with others
• hoodie-plugins-api 0.4.0 – Hoodie interface to CouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• Misconceptions about PouchDB – a quick rant

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to use CouchDBouchdb properly to chain mapreduce functions or group properly
• Stack Overflow: Query CouchDB with multiple keys for multiple properties
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB reverse proxy
• Stack Overflow: How can I translate my sql queries to Cloudant/CouchDB?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB View that includes revision history

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: How to index couchdb from elasticsearch server with the help of elasticsearch river plugin and hence get JSON data
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB cookie authentication does not work with jQuery

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!

Events

• February 12, Berlin, Germany: Time to relax! – CouchDB Hack Night
• March 09, Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg BEAMers – Erlang and Elixir User Group

Job Opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior Front End Developer for Bioinformatics and Evidence-Based Medicine, Santa Monica, USA (allows remote)
• Mobile Angular Developer: MD/Remote, Baltimore, USA (allows remote)

Time to relax!

• “Everyone is obsessed with how successful people start their day. And if you’ve decided to do something about the quality of your life, you’ll start working on developing a morning routine and trying different versions of it. But we seem to forget that what productive people – those who work each day to achieve what they want and have hacked so many areas of their life – do before they go to bed is as important.” – 10 Things to do before you go to Bed
• “Many Americans spend a minimum of eight hours per day sitting in an office, but we observed significant physical and mental health benefits in subjects after just one instance of standing up, walking out the door, and never coming back to their place of work again, … .” – Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

… and also in the News

• With `semantic-release` you can fully automate your npm module’s releases. You can try it out here.
• How io.js built a 146 person, 27 language localization effort… in one day.

Major Discussions

Welcome to Mango to CouchDB and the ASF (see thread)

We’re excited to welcome Mango to CouchDB and the ASF this week. Mango is an API Layer for CouchDB with a MongoDB inspired query language interface for Apache CouchDB which got donated to the ASF by IBM Cloudant. The codes is located here, a GitHub mirror should be available anytime soon.

Update handlers (see thread)

Question: a user had thought that updates were automatically called upon submitting or modifying a document to the DB, but then realised that to make an update run, they need to call its URL. They asked if there’s a way to achieve what they need or if they better add the logic to their server side code.

Answers:

• Update handlers need to be requested explicitly.
• CouchDB doesn’t provide any method to change your documents automagically on PUT. It’s not oblivious how this feature should work
  in case of replication.
• Normally, you don’t need any server side. All you need is to ensure
  that the clients are send you valid documents (e.g. setup validate_doc_update functions). Whether they call update handlers or they implement update handle logic on their side is not a question users should be concerned about – but valid data is.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• clerk 0.6.1 – CouchDB library for Node and the browser
• co-clerk 0.0.2 – Clerk CouchDB client for Co

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• Summary of SheffieldJS Talk Night, including a talk about CouchDB
• Choosing the right stack: why we chose Hapi, CouchDB and Ansible
• A post on MVCC and Garbage collection in append-only
  / immutable databases
• A post about Erlang and how high level languages are dependent from low level system architecture

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Use Case: CouchDB on a Raspberry Pi: A quick walkthrough
  • Also, if you want to install CouchDB 2.0 on a Raspberry Pi, this project may help you.
  • For Enterprises, this content management system could be of help.
• Stack Overflow: Request for feedback: Couchdb setup with client replication (pouchdb) for multiple users/accounts
• Stack Overflow: Creating a list of tags using couchDB map reduce
• Stack Overflow: How to store raw JSON in Couchdb with java
• Stack Overflow: Extracting data from one server to other in couchDB
• Stack Overflow: changes: filter only changes from OTHER DB-instances

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: Storing User Activities In CouchDB

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!

Events

• February 7: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale for the free tickets is still open.
• February 12, Berlin, Germany: Time to relax! – CouchDB Hack Night

Time to relax!

• “But I look back and feel grateful for those trials and what they’ve taught me. They’ve forced me to grow and made me a better person. Most importantly, they taught me one of the hardest and most important lessons I’ve learned in my life: Seek to live with an open palm.” – The weight is a gift
  

… and also in the News

• Is 123456 really the most common password?