Major Discussions

GitHub Pull Requests merging policy (SEE THREAD)

Ongoing discussion of approaches and processes for merging Pull Requests on GitHub.

Vote: Import docker-couchdb (SEE THREAD)

The vote passed.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• beanbag 3.2.0 – generic CouchDB driver built upon request
• hoodie-plugins-api 0.4.1 – Hoodie interface to CouchDB
• stork-odm 0.1.16 – providing a layer of document management over the CouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• py-couchdb project is looking for a new maintainer. If someone is interested and would like to help, please contact Andrey Antukh (see contact details in this email).

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow
  • PouchDB/CouchDB Sequence Counter on Replicate
  • Is CouchDB right choice for my App?
  • After successful replication, are two CouchDB databases guaranteed to have identical sequence numbers?
  • how to use javascript function with CouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow:
  • PouchDB Sync Error 500 / Couch DB ‘Unknown peer’
  • Does CouchDB suppport Content-Range in attachment PUT requests?
  • How to use FB auth and Cloudant to mount a db per user architecture?
  • Utility or Good Tool to search 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!
• Do you want to help us with the work on the new CouchDB website? Get in touch on our new website mailing list and join the website team! – www@couchdb.apache.org
• 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 welcome you on board!

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Senior Node.js Engineer, Netherlands
• Senior Frontend Developer, Germany
• PHP Developer, Germany

Time to relax!

• “As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command. Four identical machines, running identical software, pull information from thousands of sensors, make hundreds of milli-second decisions, vote on every decision, check with each other 250 times a second. A fifth computer, with different software, stands by to take control should the other four malfunction.” – Space Shuttle Software: They write the right stuff
• “Problems around this issue are not going to vanish overnight, but it’s clear that women won’t advance to top jobs until they can speak forcefully without being seen as incompetent, blabby nags. And without always having to second-guess their own actions in a way that men just don’t have to do.” – What happens when women speak up
• “If you ask someone specifically to consider speaking at your conference, they’re WAY more likely to consider submitting a talk than if you don’t.” – You can choose who submits talks to your conference
• “Being a low-budget community event, we didn’t have a lot of money. But we tried to show our attendees and speakers that we care about them. Here’s what we did and what it cost us.” – How much it cost us to make more attendees feel safe and welcome at .concat() 2015

… and also in the news

• “Man I love all the ideas behind CouchDB. If only all software would make you ‘Relax!'” (Boris van Hoytema, on Twitter)
• Beautiful high-res images from Mars

CouchDB Weekly Meeting (see summary)

• Fauxton status: Fauxton test suite for integration tests will be running on CouchDB 2.0 soon, a PR is already in review. For the Mango interface this means that integration tests can be written for it. In Mango, you can currently create indexes and list them, and work on rewriting the all-docs-list to react is currently ongoing as well.
• rcouch merge: some work is already done, further work is currently on hold.
• couchperuser: couchperuser may get donated to the ASF, a clearance and vote will be done to move this forward.
• Google Summer of Code (GSoC): anyone who wants to mentor, please get in touch on the according thread.
• couchdb-www: the infra team is currently testing git-based website publishing. I we now want to make any changes on the CouchDB Website now, we have to do it in SVN and git, but only for a short while, until we’re moved over fully
• couchdbdocker: this project is also being imported from Github, paperwork has been filed, next step will be to get IP clearance going.
• couchdb-nano: paperwork has been filed as well, the import process will start soon
• _bulk_revs: discussion about optimising replication performance using _bulk_revs / COUCHDB-2310
• CouchDB 2.0: a text about the process for the new logo will be written, and consolidation of install instructions will be figured out by community members.

Major Discussions

Vote: Import docker-couchdb (SEE THREAD)

Formal vote on accepting the donation of the docker-couchdb project to CouchDB. The vote is still ongoing.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• pouchdb-dump-cli 2.0.0 – tool to dump a PouchDB/CouchDB database
• couchdb-json-logs 0.0.3 – regular CouchDB logs go in, structured JSON log records go out
• stork-odm 0.1.11 – Stork provides a layer of document management over the CouchDB.
• Launch: the Neighbourhoodie Software now offers professional support for Apache CouchDB™ (see email)
• beanbag 3.0.0 – generic CouchDB driver built upon request

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• Quick and (not so) dirty compressing reverse proxy

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: How to retrieve all the documents in CouchDB by given key?
• Stack Overflow: Unable to add multiple docs to Couchdb because of identical _ids
• Stack Overflow: Couch DB escape characters
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB counting values from a Document
• Stack Overflow: PouchDB/CouchDB Sequence Counter on Replicate

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: futon web access after adding admin username/password error unauthorized
• Stack Overflow: Couchdb documents fields data converted into �
• Stack Overflow: When modeling a CouchDB object in Backbone, should there be a 1-1 relationship between a model and database?

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 welcome you on board!

Events

• March 24, San Francisco, USA: Meet the Erlang inventors

Time to relax!

• “Bengali is the seventh most common native language in the world, sitting ahead of the eighth (Russian) by a wide margin, with as many native speakers as French, German, and Italian combined. And yet, on the Internet, Bengali is very much a second-class citizen … .” – I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name
• “My primary lesson from the dark days of burnout is to be honest and transparent, even if you fear that people will find out the awful truth. Sometimes you have to accept that you aren’t as good as you think you are, that you’re a fool for thinking you could blithely avoid burnout by sheer will.” – On Burnout and the Year of Hell

… and also in the news

• Anita Sarkeesian: What I couldn’t say (talk video)
• Sponsorship isn’t enough: Why Tech Companies Are Failing To Attract Female Engineers