CouchDB Weekly News, November 05, 2015

CouchDB Weekly Meeting (see summary)

  • CouchDB 2.0: As one of the final steps until the beta version, there’ll be a CouchDB testing party to collaboratively fix the javascript test suite. The idea: Who wants to help out can do so, and get help to help where needed. Everyone interested is welcome!
    The fixing party will be held every week – until done – on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 19:00 UTC, in the IRC #couchdb-dev room.
  • Fauxton: The team has been working on a notification center that logs all the notifications displayed on the dashboard and this is a prototype.

Major Discussions

Is your business build on CouchDB? (see thread)

Robert Kowalski is collecting companies who use CouchDB, in order to:

  • showcase logos and user stories of successful CouchDB development for a new website on http://couchdb.apache.org
  • solicit private feedback about making CouchDB better
  • help companies to hire experienced CouchDB developers
  • identify new CouchDB core contributors from other companies

You can submit your company or the ones that you know of  in this github repo, by making a pull request, or by simply writing Robert.

[ANNOUNCE] CouchApp ML (see thread)

There ow is an official mailing list for all discussions around CouchApp! To subscribe, write to couchapp@couchdb.apache.org. Everyone who is interested in the feature, likes to its discuss future developments and perspectives, is very welcome to join. Further information for everyone interested in the topics and discussions around it, find this article on Medium: “Applications in CouchDB”.

CouchDB / NoSQL Benchmarking (ongoing, see THREAD)

Previously shared: A CouchDB user created a tool for benchmarking and would like some feedback from the community. The github project can be found here. For further insights, this and the following thread, where he separately shares his test results.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

no public answer yet:

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

no public answer yet:

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

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!

  • “Ditto wants to create a safe community where a large variety of topics can be discussed. Great discussion doesn’t require personal attacks, or extremely harsh or offensive comments, so Ditto wants to do without them. Ditto is brand new, and we could use your help in our first public testing phase. While creation of public communities will be disabled during the testing phases, we’d like to know what communities you think should be included on Ditto.” – Introducing Ditto: A Link Aggregator For An Inclusive Community
  • “…, while some people may read to escape, marginalized youth read to be affirmed. That affirmation comes not from sanitizing their lives but depicting the fullness of their humanity. Telling the truth about their issues — both personal and political — honors their resilience and sends the message that they, too, can thrive.” – How Walter Dean Myers Taught Me to Stop Writing White
  • “I think people should be able to interact with whomever they please without being judged by people for using a smartphone to do so.” – Stop saying technology is causing social isolation
  • “But other people, as it turns out, actually aren’t thinking about us quite as judgmentally or intensely as we tend to anticipate. Not nearly, in fact. There’s a long line of research that shows how consistently and regularly we overestimate others’ interest in our affairs.” – Why you should really start doing more things alone

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CouchDB Weekly News, October 29, 2015

Major Discussions

CouchDB / NoSQL Benchmarking (see thread)

A CouchDB user created a tool for benchmarking and would like some feedback from the community. The github project can be found here.

Sharing CommonJS modules across design documents / databases? (see thread)

Considering storage for modules, a user wants to know if he has to duplicate the library across all design documents and databases needing it.

Question about replication. (see thread)

A user describes a scenario for CouchDB replication and wants to know, if to expect conflicts and how to prevent those: “I want to make a one-time replication from instance B to A, (after review) so that all documents, modified at B be replicated to A, overwriting modifications made meanwhile at A.” The answer is here.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

PouchDB

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

… and in the PouchDB Universe

CouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

no public answer yet (Stack Overflow):

PouchDB Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

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

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!

  • “MolCraft is a world where the majestic helices of myoglobin rise above you. Where you can explore this massive molecule and its iron centre that carries oxygen around your muscles. Or, if you prefer you can fly down a pore through which water molecules normally flow across cell membranes.” – How Minecraft could help teach chemistry’s building blocks of life
  • “One way to address the lack of diversity in tech is to expose kids to computer science as early as possible.” – New website showcases profiles of people of color working in tech
  • “These fleeting online occurrences can make an already difficult grieving process even more complicated and bizarre—mainly because it’s more difficult than you might expect to decide, finally, what to make of these things, or what to do about them. My Street View discovery was the best, but it was also the worst. ” – The Ghosts in Our Machines
  • “An article will contain a narrative about the event that is currently occurring but also will contain more evergreen information such as background context, key players, etc. But the reliance on the form of the article as the atomic unit of news means that all of that information has essentially been treated as ephemeral. ” – The Future of News is not an article
  • “Daniel Craig is the Bond we deserve, a Bond who takes seriously the job of embodying a savage yearning for a lost fantasy of the 1950s. It is about masculinity, yes, but also about Britishness, about whiteness and about heterosexuality, about the loss of certainty in all of these in a changing world.” – The tragedy of James Bond

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