Monthly Archives: August 2015

CouchDB Weekly News, August 13, 2015

Major Discussions

Brainstorm: A new CouchDB tag-line? (see thread)

On the marketing list a discussion on shortening and strengthening the current CouchDB tag-line was reopened. For many the term ‘replication’, as referring to the most distinctive feature of CouchDB, therefore should be part of the new line. The line “Apache CouchDB is a database that uses JSON for documents, JavaScript for MapReduce indexes, and regular HTTP for its API” has been compared to competitors’ tag-lines and contrasted with several suggestions.

Let’s cut a Nano release (see thread)

Last month Nuno Job and Pedro Teixeira and the YLD.io team donated the Nano client to the ASF. The official release has not been completed due to a few remaining issues and open questions, that were kindly summarised by Jason Smith.

The discussion tackles on updating the README of the ‘dscape-repo’ on Github to point to the ASF project and, furthermore, transferring the repository to the Apache account. For its release via npm or other package managers an official voting might be required.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

…and in the PouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers (CouchDB)

Use Case:

Stack Overflow:

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Use Cases, Questions and Answers (PouchDB)

Stack Overflow:

For more new questions and answers about PouchDB, 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

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “If you are an open source project maintainer, give this a shot. Add the label first-timers-only to your project so people can find it here. I think that we can be more friendly to newcomers in the open source community. You never know, you may find a new main contributor to the project or even a new life-long friend. Either way, the more people we get into open source the better. And by being open like this, we’re helping ‘Bring Kindness back to Open Source.’” – First Timers Only – A suggestion to Open Source project maintainers…
  • “However, black men accounted for 40 percent of the 60 unarmed deaths, even though they make up just 6 percent of the U.S. population. The Post’s analysis shows that black men were seven times more likely than white men to die by police gunfire while unarmed.” – Black And Unarmed
  • “Right now, you’re inaccessible. Tomorrow, your images might have descriptive alt text. Next week, your design might have an improved contrast ratio. Next month your header navigation might have a more usable structure, with better headings and links with active and hover styles. With each iteration, more and more people could have an effortless experience each day.” – Incremental Accessibility
  • “As my own buffer slowly returned, I felt the dirty windshield I’d been looking through starting to clear.…I worry sometimes that the buffer gets too thick. My old demons creep up on me, tell me that if I’m not living a painfully raw existence, I’m not a real artist.” – Meditation vs. medication: A comic essay on facing depression

… and also in the news

CouchDB Weekly News, August 06, 2015

Major Discussions

CouchDB Filtered Replication – Group of Doc’s Don’t appear to be batched (see thread)

A user has issues with a filter doing a simple check and making syncing from a couch instance to another much slower. The questions: “Does CouchDB filter replication not group docs and send 1 doc in each _bulk_docs call to the target host? Is there some configuration which would allow the filter replication to group docs to speed up replication?”

It is discussed if the replicator is faster than the filter function in this case, and if to request ‘filtered _changes feed’ to check the throughput speed.

A possible explanation states that the “replicator will dynamically choose ‘_bulk_docs’ batch sizes based on the number of documents that are ready to be transmitted to the source” and that it is currently “possible to set an upper bound on the size”, but not a lower. Though other referred issues imply that batch size doesn’t seem to be configurable.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Releases in the PouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

… and in the PouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers for CouchDB

Stack Overflow:

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

For more new questions and answers about CouchDB, see these search results.

Use Cases, Questions and Answers for PouchDB

Stack Overflow:

For more new questions and answers about PouchDB, 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 Committer

  • Bastian Krol (IRC nick: basti1302, Twitter: @bastiankrol) has been elected as a CouchDB committer. Welcome to CouchDB, Bastian!

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

Time to relax!

  • “I’ve had an engineer on salary at a bootcamp message me to explicitly “be friends with benefits” while I was in the interview process at the school he worked for. I would like to add that both men responsible for these unfavorable experiences are not bad people. They are both socially-accepted, “smart” and “normal” guys. This illustrates one of the industry’s deep underlying issues.” – You May Have Seen My Face on BART
  • “‘Segment the product by quality, value and personal image—ideas that all ended up leading to the thriving coffee market of today. Just when we thought we were out, they sucked us back in. (Meanwhile, the parallel rise of coffee and decline of tobacco could be a sociology thesis, in and of itself.)’ That little insight is part of a three-part series on the anthropology of coffee on the blog Anthropology in Practice.” – The anthropology of coffee
  • “The future belongs to all of us—or, ultimately, none of us—why does it matter if the vast majority of futurists are white men? It matters for the same reasons diversity drives market growth: because when only one type of person is engaged in asking key questions about a specialty—envisioning the future or otherwise—they miss entire frameworks for identifying and solving problems.” – Why Aren’t There More Women Futurists?
  • “‘It is important to recreate that ‘water cooler’ conversation that naturally occurs in a traditional office,’ […] Staying focused on work is important, but taking a moment to ask your colleagues about their weekends, hobbies, families and other personal activities strengthens those bonds and leads to a higher-functioning team.” – 5 ways to make working remotely actually work

… and also in the news