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CouchDB Weekly News, July 9, 2015

Major Discussions

[PROPOSAL] Workflow with forked repos (see thread)

A new proposal on @dev is kicking-off the “plan to sync the couchdb-jiffy fork up to the current master” because of useful improvements for scheduler, tests, Windows build in the recent versions of jiffy.

[PROPOSAL] Fauxton config and the new config API (ongoing, see thread)

When several issues for multi-node-setups occurred with the config section in Fauxton, it was proposed “that the UI communicates in a direct and clear way that another (maybe external) tooling is necessary as soon as you’re dealing with a cluster.” and that “for ‘clusters of one’, we can just show the config screen.” Other opinions are, that with 2.0 “limiting the web UI to cluster-of-one setups is perfectly fine” and thus noone would be losing capability.

Continuous Integration Redux (ongoing, see thread)

Last week on dev@ it was announced that efforts to grow a CouchDB CI team have been initiated, especially in regard of the upcoming 2.0 release: Testing on multiple operating systems, different operating system versions, dependency versions and configurations (and Windows!) will be required.

Help is needed! Looking for people interested in assuming ownership of the CouchDB Continuous Integration operations (See the thread for details and requirements. The discussion continues.)

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Stack Overflow:

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

Use Cases, Questions and Answers (PouchDB)

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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!

  • “Money can be a bridge to the freedom of exploring Musts. And it often doesn’t require much. But it does require determination. Money can be used to buy you a day, a week, month of time to work on a Must, which may amount to nothing. Or it can be used to buy a sweater, a suit, a car — the value of which is obvious and low risk.” – The Crossroads of Should and Must
  • “Peterson told BuzzFeed News, ‘There’s a lot of lip service about women in tech. People say someone should do something, but when they have other events like these, they are not actually awarding money. It’s just so that a bunch of people can feel like they’re Mark Cuban. But with this event, they put their money where their mouth is.’” – Women Rule The Tech Scene At D.C. Startup Competition
  • “I sat in a state of wonder. At a time when I had forgotten the possibility of pleasure, Pépin had effortlessly, instinctively brought me back to life. Without knowing it, he had extended a hand to a drowning man. For dessert we had crème brûlée and an apple tart, coffee, and one more glass of wine. And then I was shaking that hand again, the other clasped warmly atop mine. And then I was out on the street, dazed and floating.” – The Chef who saved my life
  • “This means half my time and mental energy is spent debating my inner self, just to keep moving forward. Think about that. Think about how much time you spend on solving a problem and then try to solve that same problem if every other second you had to argue with someone about a completely pointless and random thing. It becomes really hard to get into a flow space for solving hard problems with this going on. // Depression is a daily struggle. Some of us have the upper hand on our depression right now, but I can assure that many will eventually slip, needing more understanding, and maybe some help some time in the future.” – On Depression
  • “While around half of all webpages are in English, only about 28 percent of the people using the internet speak English as a first language. Interesting, right? There are billions of people who use and browse the English web, but are not native speakers.” – Designing for non-native speakers

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CouchDB Weekly News, July 02, 2015

Major Discussions

Building CouchDB 2.0 (see thread)

Here are a few more todos, all 2.0-tagged issues on JIRA and open
Pull Requests listed, in addition to the list that was shared in the ML last week. Near goal: Get a first feature complete version of CouchDB 2.0 out as a Release Candidate or Beta release.

Continuous Integration Redux (see thread)

On dev@ efforts to grow a CouchDB CI team have been initiated to be able to guarantee quality across many platforms and configuration. This is crucial especially in regard of the upcoming 2.0 release, testing on multiple operating systems, different operating system versions, dependency versions and configurations (and Windows!) will be required.

Help is needed! Looking for someone or a group of people that are interested in assuming ownership of the CouchDB Continuous Integration operations (See the thread for details and requirements. The discussion now goes further into structure and optional tools of the future CI system.)

Recover space imposed by 4K minimum document size? (see thread)

A user@ dealt with an issue with compaction used via the _utils UI and the database exceeding the size of the posted documents disproportionately, which was solved by triggering the compaction directly from the API with curl.

ApacheCon Core & Big Data EU (see thread)

This year ApacheCon has grown to two events – Apache: Big Data (September 28 – 30th) and ApacheCon: Core, (October 1-2) both in Budapest. Call for talk proposals for ApacheCon ended on July 1st. Several talk submissions have entered by CouchDB contributors and members. The idea of a small summit or BarCamp Apache space could be realised during the events is likely to be pursued.

[PROPOSAL] Fauxton config and the new config API (see thread)

Last week we got a new API endpoint: _node/<fqdn>/_config
While working with the API and explaining the new config section in Fauxton to people issues for for multi-node-setups became clear. The proposal for the config section in Fauxton: Detect if we are running in “Single Node Mode”.

parsing json (see thread)

On user@ it was asked which tool is used in CouchDB to parse the JSON-documents: couchdb-jiffy ia a C-implementation of a JSON parser, though there is a discussion to move back to mochijson2 (native Erlang). Also view results are serialised by SpiderMonkey’s native JSON.stringify();.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

Opinions and other News in the CouchDB Universe

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

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)

no public answer yet (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!

  • “The system itself is rather loosely organized with no one really “in charge.” As computer coordinator Ross Lenet put it, “It’s amazing it even works at all.” – In 1993, This Is What I Wrote About The Internet Coming To My High School
  • “Few things are hurting the tech industry more than that surprised look on your face when you meet someone who doesn’t conform to your idea of who works here. For all of the things that we say about how you don’t have to be a stereotypical computer nerd to be in this industry, it’s precisely through our surprised reactions we suggest otherwise.” – Stop Acting So Surprised: How Microaggressions Enforce Stereotypes in Tech
  • “Additionally, coding camps are not doing enough to bridge the bias and legitimacy gap their graduates will face in job searches. A ‘brogrammer’ just out of devcamp can talk about how quickly he is sure to pick up RSpec and still get the position. A queer woman will be looked at as if she is saying she doesn’t know how to open Terminal.” – Programmer Legitimacy: Earned, Bought, or Borrowed?
  • “The day that Facebook decided my name was not real enough and summarily cut me off from my friends, family and peers and left me with the stark choice between using my legal name or using a name people would know me by. … there’s a twist: I used to work there. In fact, I’m the trans woman who initiated the custom gender feature. And the name I go by on Facebook? That’s the name that was on my work badge.” – My name is only real enough to work at Facebook, not to use on the site
  • “I couldn’t be happier that all gay couples can now access each other’s Social Security benefits, file their taxes jointly, adopt children, and more easily emigrate to be with each other. I just wish marriage weren’t the only path to these benefits.” – I’m Pro Gay Equality. Pro Marriage? Less So.
  • “The logical conclusion seems to be that simply spending money on diversity initiatives meant to attract the attention of non-white, non-male potential hires once their careers are already underway is a bandaid on a larger cultural problem.” – The 21st Century Has Really Not Been Great For Women And Minorities In STEM

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