Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• CoverCouch – per-document ACL engine
• CloudWall Me – an Offline First / noBackend PouchDB driven browser IDE with ability to synchronise with CouchDB
• couch-statsd-backend 0.1.5 – Backend for statsd to emit stats to CouchDB
• loopback-connector-couch 0.1.1 – CouchDB adapter for Loopback.io

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• A Content Staging Solution for Drupal 8 (and more) – also in this post: Drupal adding CouchDB Sync
• How to be a good open-source citizen
• In case you missed it last week: the recap, photos and video from CouchDB Day Hamburg 2015, and How to organise your own CouchDB Day
• CouchDB: Getting External Connectivity Running in Windows 8

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: Uploading attachment to CouchDB with Cordova (or Phonegap) file transfer
• Stack Overflow: Couch DB – Is Hovercraft still actively maintained?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Compression
• Stack Overflow: How to query PouchDB with SQL-like operators

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: What are couchdb user._id and role field limits?

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

• Kyle Joseph Snavely (IRC nick: ksnavely; Apache ID: ksnavely; Twitter: motohacker) has been elected as a CouchDB committer. Welcome to CouchDB!

Events

• March 09, Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg BEAMers – Erlang and Elixir User Group
• March 10, Hamburg, Germany: CouchDB Meetup
• March 12, Brisbane, Australia: Brisbane NoSQL Group
• March 12, Berlin, Germany: CouchDB Hack Night
• March 22, San Francisco, USA: Erlang Meetup

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• (Senior) System Engineer (m/f), Germany
• Software Engineer – predictive intelligence engine, USA

Time to relax!

• Can’t we all just agree? – An upcoming series of publications on consensus.
• What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True (presentation video)
• You’ll find an entire collection of studies about software development and practice here: It will never work in theory
• “It’s not that we white men are intentionally doing anything wrong, but we do have a penchant for obliviousness about the way we are beneficiaries of systematic unfairness. Maybe that’s because in a race, it’s easy not to notice a tailwind, and white men often go through life with a tailwind, while women and people of color must push against a headwind.” – Straight Talk for White Men
• “I recently achieved a 356 day GitHub streak and I wanted to blog why I started to commit every day and what it changed in my life.” – What happened while contributing to Open Source on a daily basis for one year

… and also in the news

• Dubai Flow Motion
• “Couchdb’s new fauxton web admin looks neat” – @mossplix, on Twitter