Major Discussions

Configuration in CouchDB 2.0 (see thread)

In the Fauxton team that is using CouchDB 2.0 daily, it has been worked on to remove the config tap. Thereby testing features on back ports that still support the config route lead to multiple unexpected errors. The options for solutions and major config changes, e.g. a token-ring are to be discussed further.

GSOC 2015 [Visualize document revision tree and navigate betweenthese revisions] (see thread) & [COUCHDB-2214] Dashboard as main page (see thread)

Nadeeshaan Gunasinghe’s and Dulanga Sashika, two undergraduates from the Computer Science and Engineering department at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, addressed the CouchDB mailing list for help with their proposals for Google Summer of Code 2015. Congratulations: Both have been accepted.

[VOTE] accept Nano contribution (ongoing, see thread)

Nuno Job wants to contribute Nano, a popular Node.js Client library for CouchDB to the ASF.

[PROPOSAL] CouchDB tests organization (see thread)

Plans to split up the various CouchDB test suites from the main repo into their repositories. Especially the JavaScript tests can then be shared among other projects like PouchDB.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• hapi-auth-couchdb-cookie 1.0.0 – CouchDB Cookie authentication plugin, inspired by hapi-auth-cookie
• pouchdb-full-sync plugin to fully replicate PouchDB and CouchDB databases, preserving all revision history
• couch-resolve-conflicts 1.1.0 – Assist in CouchDB conflict resolving.
• pouchdb-changes-like-wrapper 1.0.0 – Helper function that makes wrapping changes(), sync(), replicate() etc. using pouchdb-wrappers easier.
• couch-promised 1.0.0 – A promise-based wrapper around CouchDB.
• pouchdb-load 1.4.0 – PouchDB Load – load dumped CouchDB/PouchDB databases on the client.
• pouchdb-replication-stream 1.2.4 – PouchDB/CouchDB replication as a stream.
• mock-couch 0.1.3 – An http server pretending to be couchdb, for unit testing.
• clerk 0.8.2 – CouchDB library for Node and the browser.
• Couchbase Server 4.0 Developer Preview

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• gitwcsub was enabled on all ASF servers, what means that CouchDB website is now managed by git repository, not subversion one. Thus it’s now much easier to contribute and submit fixes: Pull requests welcome!
• Create a Drush command that wraps the CouchDB replicator.
• The Boston CouchDB Catchup was on April 30th: “Good times talking @fauxton and @Cloudant query/mango at the Boston @CouchDB meetup” (@rajrsingh, on Twitter)
• The state of binary data in the browser. Or:”So, you wanna store a Blob, huh?”
• Blog post: Connecting PouchDB to Cloudant on IBM Bluemix

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Triggerjob: CouchDB database driven REST events – a database-driven daemon and scheduler to extend CouchDB and Couchapps with asynchronous REST events.

Stack Overflow:

• Can CouchDB filter timestamps be used in a map or reduce function – some sort of Date.now?
• Change property of doc? By changing not the view, but the response of the view on client-side.
• How to arrange data in NoSQL, for a small invoice system with NoSQL database? More on data modelling.
• PouchDB: A way for database replication when the application is launched offline?
• With couchdb4j – a way to traverse the database of 1 GB and 110000 rows without without putting them all into view?

no public answer yet:

Stack Overflow:

• Decreasing insert speed with increased storage size (1GB) on CouchDB
• How to implement full text search in CouchBase Lite .Net?

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
• The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
• 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!

New Commiter

• Maria Andersson (Apache ID: mia; IRC nick: mar-ia) has been elected as a CouchDB committer. Welcome to CouchDB, Maria!

Events

• May 11, free online course (3 weeks): Functional coding with Erlang

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Junior Systems Administrator, Exeter, UK
• Senior full-stack JavaScript developer,  Berlin, Germany
• Operations Engineer, London, UK

Time to relax!

• “People who look like me can just kinda do programming for work if we want, or not do it, or switch into it later, or out of it again, or work quietly, or nerd-rant on how Ruby sucks or rocks or whatever, or name-drop monads. And nobody will make remarks about our appearance, about whether we’re truly dedicated hackers, or how our behavior might reflect badly on “our kind” of people. That’s silent technical privilege.” Silent Technical Privilege
• ““Taming the Trolls,” a panel at the Women in the World Summit, addressed a more pernicious brand of trolling—a variety that is vicious, violent, and flagrantly sexist.” What’s it like to be subject to incessant misogynistic trolling? Ashley Judd and Anita Sarkeesian speak out.
• “Glover began to consider selling leaked CDs from the plant. He knew a couple of employees who were smuggling them out, and a pre-release album from a hot artist, copied to a blank disk, would be valuable. (Indeed, recording executives at the time saw this as a key business risk.) But PolyGram’s offerings just weren’t that good. The company had a dominant position in adult contemporary, but the kind of people who bought knockoff CDs from the trunk of a car didn’t want Bryan Adams and Sheryl Crow. They wanted Jay Z, and the plant didn’t have it.” The man who broke the music business. The dawn of online piracy.
• “Four years ago, I wrote a rant about why Varnish has no SSL support (Why no SSL ?) and the upcoming 4.1 release is good excuse to revisit that issue.” SSL revisited.
• “I followed a nearly equal ratio of women and men, but retweeted men three times as often as I retweeted women. This, despite my knowing how underrepresented women’s voices are in the areas I obsess over, such as technology and policy and culture.” The year I didn’t retweet men.

… and also in the news

• How-Old.net
• Puppy room to relax stressed students.
• New web series: The impossibilities.

CouchDB Weekly Meeting (see summary)

• Fauxton: New features – Active Tasks layout (more changes to come), auto updater in Changes tab, press escape key to dismiss the notifications in fauxton.
• nano contribution to the Apache Software Foundation: incubator IP clearance and a vote over Contributors Licensing Agreement to come
• couchperuser: run IP clearance, research idea to create a markdown2ipclearance.xml script
• couchdb-docker: run IP clearance
• _bulk _get: backport couch implementation for json api, review and merge iilyak work on multipart api, finish /db/_bulk_get to match couchbase implementation.
• build script: help is needed to fix issue, especially with Windows support
• CouchDB 2.0 status: work is making progress. Bug fix in a branch of cassim, but other things (deleted docs, conflict handling) need to be addressed in the same code path. Cluster solution for config on backport needed, tbd on dev@.
• Other topics: see summary

Major Discussions

[Result] [Vote] CouchDB Logo – Round #3) (see thread)

• Constantin Angheloiu: 15.5
• Paul Davis: 9.5
• Old CouchDb logo: 2

See the whole vote results as CSV.
New logo and tweak options are being discussed in the PMC and on marketing@.

[DISCUSSION] Move Fauxton to its own mailing list? (see thread)

It was decided by consensus that a new mailing list notifications@ is established to outsource JIRA tickets and GH traffic and other automated notifications from dev@ to make the conversation here more “human”. Subscribe by writing an e-mail.

How to use an included document’s key? (see thread)

Question: A user asked how to use an included document and know the
“value of ancestor” for an application for pharmacists to keep track of their patients medication?

Answer: It has been suggested to use event elements to have one document for each patient visits to the pharmacy.

Cancel a replication? (see thread)

Question: A user asked how to cancel a replication if there is no document in the _replication database?

Answer: The aim of the replication is that at the end of the process, all active documents on the source database are also in the destination database and all documents that were deleted in the source databases are also deleted on the destination database as stated in the documentation.

Trying CouchDB 2.0 (see thread)

Question: A user wants to test CouchDB 2.0 on a cluster of three mashines and is facing issues with the Fauxton config and wants to know a way to manually fix it.

Answer: Ensure that admin credentials, couchdb/secret and erlang cookie are the same on all three nodes. Otherwise they won’t connect each other. Also, interact with /_cluster_setup with curl for now – a Fauxton update in on the way. If you rung it with dev/run script it automatizes these routines.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• socket-pouch – (Beta) PouchDB over websockets
• tagesdecke – a thin access library for CouchDB
• pouchdb-hoodie-api – Hoodie-like API for PouchDB
• store.pouchdb – ORM-style storage plugin for the PouchDb database
• pouchdb-ajax – Ajax module used in PouchDB
• pouchdb-binary-util – Binary utils used in PouchDB
• ember-pouch – PouchDB adapter for Ember Data. Ember Pouch is a PouchDB/CouchDB adapter for Ember Data
• node-couchdb-logger – Nodejs component to write to couchdb-logger-service
• couchdb-fixture – Initialize a couchdb database with fixtures meant for use with mocha
• flavor-utils – Utility functions to manipulate cheminfo flavor system on couchdb
• pouchdb-replication-stream – PouchDB/CouchDB replication as a stream
• couch-box – Asymmetric encrypted CouchDB documents, powered by NaCl
• angular-ega.couchdb-auth – CouchDB auth wrapper
• update-couch-designs – A command to insert design documents into a CouchDB database

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• News from Fauxton team: Improved Active Tasks page and new features such as an automated changes view update.
• Blog post: CouchDB Reverse Proxy and Middleware

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Use Case:

• How to finally delete documents in CouchDB with periodic cleanup instead of purge or periodic relocation

Stack Overflow:

• How to obtain count while using java client of cloudant?
• Data stored into the browser database using PouchDB is under user’s control to be cleared from the browser history
• Kendo UI DataSource adapter for PouchDB

no public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: Couchbase Lite to CouchDB Replication – No Data

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
• The CouchDB advocate marketing programme is just getting started. Join us in CouchDB’s Advocate Hub!
• 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

• April 30, Boston: CouchDB Catchup

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Developer rental marketplace, Berlin, Germany
• App (iOs or Android) and web developers, NoSQL (CouchDB), NodeJS, PHP developers (long term), Chennai, India (or remote)

Time to relax!

• “Those in power think that they’re being fair. They also believe they’ve reached the top of their field because they are better and smarter than others. Any challenge to these beliefs feels like a personal attack, and is met with a circular logic that reinforces the comfortable assumption that they sit atop a meritocracy.” – Now What? How to Create Fair Companies after the Ellen Pao Verdict
• “As developers we seem to have a tendency to get really religious about frameworks. We invest a bunch of time learning a tool and then hold onto it tightly. But, it doesn’t really buy us anything to be religious about tools. Simply converting to another big framework doesn’t protect us from a similar situation in the future, does it?” – Optimize for change. It’s the only constant.
• “A great decision is often not a revolutionary move. We were doing the technical work to enable this already. The team wanted to be deploying more frequently. All I did was provide the push, to raise the bar just a little bit higher and express my confidence that we would easily clear it. ” – The Best Decision I Made in 2014
• “Friends and family are the first line of support for people with emotional problems. While it is wonderful to be trusted, this often creates anxiety and dilemmas. Friends worry they will say the wrong thing. Tolerating another person’s pain and distress can be difficult. While there is no one right technique for every situation, here are some tips to keep in mind.” – How to be a friend

… and also in the news

• “dude in an interview asked me to implement incremental indexing, because he didn’t believe CouchDB’s built-in features were real.” (@garbados, on Twitter)
• The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can