Thursday Apr 17, 2014

CouchDB Weekly News, April 17

Blog Posts

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

Bigcouch Merge : work on branches has started again and will make good progress

: work on branches has started again and will make good progress rcouch Merge : code reviews have been restarted; more help with testing is needed; discussion around Windows support, will be continued on Dev-Mailing list

: code reviews have been restarted; more help with testing is needed; discussion around Windows support, will be continued on Dev-Mailing list Advocate Hub : onboarding at the moment, next steps will be sent to marketing mailing list soon

: onboarding at the moment, next steps will be sent to marketing mailing list soon 1.6.0 release : release candidate 3 (rc3) is being prepared now

: release candidate 3 (rc3) is being prepared now COUCHDB-1986: the issue is being investigated, will be updated soon if its status changes

Major Discussions

1.6.0 changelog review (see thread)

A discussion around what exactly should be included in 1.6.0 (see changelog and documentation for details).

Handling the Welcome Request (see thread)

How to handle the welcome message that appears from a root request and direct the "/" request to another URL (setup: version 1.5 on a Windows machine).

authentication_redirect is not working (see thread)

How to handle the redirection of users after login to other databases that service page requests (and avoid errors; setup: public application with CouchDB-based authentication).

Vote: Release Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc2 (see thread)

The vote was aborted because of an issue brought up by the test suite.

Modeling Relationships and providing Transactional Integrity (see thread; ongoing discussion)

… and the question if _bulk_docs is transactional (hint: it's not)

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

openSUSE has issued a security update for CouchDB which fixes a vulnerability that can be exploited to cause a DoS

couchbeam 1.0.3, that helps you access and manage multiple CouchDB Nodes

MyCouch 1.0.0, a simple asynchronous CouchDB and Cloudant client for .Net

follow 0.11.0, a robust, fault-tolerant CouchDB changes follower

docuri 1.0.1 - rich document IDs for CouchDB

Proxee, an API proxy that stores data in CouchDB

Opinions

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Get involved!

rcouch Merge : Erlang hackers and CouchDB users, we need your help with testing and review of the rcouch merge. It's easy! Find the how-to in this post.

: Erlang hackers and CouchDB users, we need your help with testing and review of the rcouch merge. It's easy! Find the how-to in this post. Here's a list of beginner tickets around our currently ongoing Fauxton-implementation. If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to contact us in the couchdb-dev IRC room (#couchdb-dev) – Garren (garren) and Sue (deathbear) are happy to help.

around our currently ongoing Fauxton-implementation. If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to contact us in the couchdb-dev IRC room (#couchdb-dev) – Garren (garren) and Sue (deathbear) are happy to help. You want join us for the updates of CouchDB-Python for Python 3? Take a look at issue 231.

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

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If you want to get into working on CouchDB:We'd be happy to have you!Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.

Posted at 09:46AM Apr 17, 2014 by Noah Slater in News | |