Major Discussions

Improved CouchDB logo (see thread)

Discussion about improving the existing CouchDB logo or changing the logo to a new one with the release of CouchDB 2.0. The first suggestions for a new logo have been submitted to the thread this week.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• pouch-mirror 0.0.3 – helps you create a local slave mirror of any CouchDB database for lightning-fast reads and secure writes
• pouchdb-dump-cli 1.3.0 – tool to dump a PouchDB/CouchDB database
• pouchdb-load 1.2.1 – load dumped CouchDB/PouchDB databases on the client
• feetoff 1.0.0 – Pre-emptive authentication monitoring for CouchDB
• pouchdb-replication-stream 1.0.0 – PouchDB/CouchDB replication as a stream
• seq-file 1.1.0 – a module for storing the ever-increasing sequence files when following couchdb _changes feed
• souch – simple Node.js client for CouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• IBM Cloudant Will Power Local Data Centers, Apple Apps
• Using PouchDB for Offline / Data Sync

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Stack Overflow: CouchDB Error 500: function_clause error in HTTP request
• Stack Overflow: How to insert an auto increment / sequential number value in CouchDB documents?
• Stack Overflow: pouchdb: replicate from geocouch within bounds
• Stack Overflow: What information is stored in a CouchDB ‘tombstone’ record?

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: couchdb/nano multipart insert
• Stack Overflow: Storing json object in Padrino CouchDB model
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB view collation issue
• Stack Overflow: Requests timeout in CouchDB replication
• Stack Overflow: How do I read simple data from CouchDB with CouchRest and Sinatra?

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!
• 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 Committers

• Christian Hogan  (IRC nick: xinnar; Apache ID: ocelotpotpie; Twitter; GitHub) has been elected as a CouchDB Committer.
• Ben Keen (IRC nick: benjaminkeen; Apache ID: benkeen; Twitter; GitHub) has been elected as a CouchDB Committer.

Welcome to CouchDB, Christian and Ben!

Events

• November 13, Edmonton, AB, Canada, SMAC Edmonton: Introduction to Cloudant, a NoSQL database-as-a-service
• November 17, Denver, CO, USA, HTML5 Denver Users Group: Creating CouchDB Apps
• November 17-21, Budapest, Hungary: ApacheCon EU 2014 with an entire CouchDB Track
• February 7, 2015: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; ticket sale is now open

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Ruby on Rails Lead Developer, Tartu / Tallinn, Estonia
• Ruby Developer, Arnold, MD, USA
• Software Engineer C#/.Net, Oxford, UK

Time to relax!

• “There’s this idea that productivity means accomplishing tasks as quickly and efficiently as humanly possible. But what if productivity means accomplishing a task with as much creativity, elegance, and ingenuity as possible? I call this approach …” – Punk rock productivity
• “I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how actual progress on a project doesn’t always match the impression of progress—sometimes a lot of code has changed but nothing looks very different, while other times a small change in code gives the sense that the whole project has moved leaps and bounds.” – Show your work: Demonstrating progress on your projects
• “Trying to juggle a balance between career and balance is hard, especially because we’re always contactable and always on the go. Shutting off from everything can be tricky but we’ve got some tips that will help to lower your blood pressure.” – How to relax

… and also in the news

• A Teenager gets grilled by her Dad why she’s not that into Coding
• Making Tech Spaces Safe for Diverse Faces
• “I feel relaxed already while reading about CouchDB!” (@amrfaissal, on Twitter)

Major Discussions

How does Indexing really work? (see thread)

Question: A user took a look at their Futon and their indexer working on various design documents, and asked how Indexing in CouchDB really works.

Answer:

• Each design doc is being processed by an independent couchjs JavaScript interpreter.
• If users want all views to be processed with exactlfy the same delta, they have to put them all in the same design doc. Then they are trading off parallelism (# of ddocs, and # of CPU cores potentially) for synchronicity.
• Another point to consider is that, if all views are in the same doc, an edit to any of them will cause recalculation of the all views in that doc. This might be good – maybe these views never change! It really depends on the user’s development and deployment model.

Deprecating _externals (ongoing discussion; see thread)

Discussion about the idea of deprecating the entire _externals feature. Suggestion to either document it straight up, along with all of the admonishments required for people who expect it to operate the same as in 1.x, or to remove it. The discussion is still ongoing.

Improved CouchDB logo (see thread)

Discussion about improving the existing CouchDB logo or changing the logo to a new one with the release of CouchDB 2.0. A design team is now working on suggestions for alternatives, these will be discussed as soon as they’re finished.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

• add-cors-to-couchdb 0.0.3 – add CORS to CouchDB
• couchdb-rev 0.0.8 – a script that will let you setup revisions for CouchDB designs
• slipcover 0.2.65 – Lite wrapper for CouchDB
• shatap-replication-couch 1.0.1 – remove all replication docs in CouchDB
• express-pouchdb 0.7.2 – Express submodule with a CouchDB style REST interface to PouchDB
• microanalytics – a web-analytics CouchApp

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

• IBM Cloudant Will Power Local Data Centers, Apple Apps

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

• Use Case: Installing CouchDB and Futon on Ubuntu 14.10
• Use Case: Install CouchDB on a CentOS Linux VPS
• Stack Overflow: Return User Specific Data from CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB: Login with “Remember me” function
• Stack Overflow: Importing large datasets into Couchbase
• Stack Overflow: How to access ALL documents in a CouchDB database?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB: OS process timed out

No public answer yet:

• Stack Overflow: CouchDB local.ini log setting getting overwritten
• Stack Overflow: How to best define routes in express.js for resources and views in CouchDB
• Stack Overflow: Is it possible to replace one CouchDB Database with a new one with the same name?
• Stack Overflow: CouchDB replication file size

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!
• 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

• November 04, Hamburg, Germany: CouchDB Meetup
• November 13, Edmonton, AB, Canada, SMAC Edmonton: Introduction to Cloudant, a NoSQL database-as-a-service
• November 17, Denver, CO, USA, HTML5 Denver Users Group: Creating CouchDB Apps
• November 17-21, Budapest, Hungary: ApacheCon EU 2014 with an entire CouchDB Track
• Announcement: CouchDB Day 2015, Hamburg, Germany; pre-registration is already open

New PMC Member

• Robert Kowalski joins the Project Management Committee. Robert has made outstanding, sustained contributions to the project. Welcome to the Couch, Robert!

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

• Experienced Node.js Developer, Cologne, Germany
• Principal Application Software Engineer, San Diego, CA, USA

Time to relax!

• “When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it: meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.” – What motivates us
• “Everyone is different. When it comes to talking about mental health more than anything, we only have our own experiences to draw from. We can’t know what it’s like to be anyone else, so comparing how you feel with others is a weird thing.” – You’re Not Alone
• “Staying in touch with distant co-workers and team members takes real work. When everyone is camped out in a home office or a coffee shop, you can’t count on casual walks down the hallway to reveal morale problems or frustration.” – Building beyond our Means

… and also in the news

• When Women stopped Coding
• “Making my first steps with AngularJS and CouchDB as a team. Awesomeness in a box!” (@schdahle, on Twitter)