Thursday May 08, 2014

CouchDB Weekly News, May 08

Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary

1.6.0 release : 1.6.0-rc.5 is out for testing, so for all systems go. 1.6.x CI is all green, a formal vote will be coming this week

: 1.6.0-rc.5 is out for testing, so for all systems go. 1.6.x CI is all green, a formal vote will be coming this week rcouch merge status : testing up to now showed it's functional, it will be suggested for integration branch merge

: testing up to now showed it's functional, it will be suggested for integration branch merge BigCouch merge status : a massive progress has been made this week. Soon branches will be rewritten to clean up the history, afterwards the community will be asked for help with testing.

: a massive progress has been made this week. Soon branches will be rewritten to clean up the history, afterwards the community will be asked for help with testing. Fauxton : agreement that Fauxton replaces Futon in CouchDB 2.0 (post merge) and that resolution of COUCHDB-1954 prior to that is critical. There'll be a thread on dev@ mailing list about this and release preparation.

: agreement that Fauxton replaces Futon in CouchDB 2.0 (post merge) and that resolution of COUCHDB-1954 prior to that is critical. There'll be a thread on dev@ mailing list about this and release preparation. Bylaws, Code of Conduct, Diversity Statement : everyone in the community is still invited to read the by-laws draft and join the discussion on dev@ mailing list (see thread); an initial Code of Conduct and Diversity draft will be posted next week

: everyone in the community is still invited to read the by-laws draft and join the discussion on dev@ mailing list (see thread); an initial Code of Conduct and Diversity draft will be posted next week Project release artefacts: the current state of what the project release artefacts are will be documented and publicized

Major Discussions

Discussion: Project by-laws (ongoing discussion; see thread)

The first draft of the by-laws has been modified and is still being discussed. It can be found here, your comments are very welcome.

How to get results in descending order by date and without ID field (see thread)

The docs for result orders can be found here. To remove the ID field, users can use a list function.

Release Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5 (ongoing testing and discussion; see thread)

The testing for all systems is still in progress. If you want to test, please follow this test procedure. The changes since last vote round can be found here.

Releases in the CouchDB Universe

PouchDB 2.2.0 – including persistent mapreduce, eventemitter api, replication works for huge datasets

highland-couchr 1.0.0 – streaming style API to CouchDB , using couchr under the hood

, using couchr under the hood massage-couch 0.1.0 – massage CouchDB documents with an OS daemon worker.

Opinions

Use Cases, Questions and Answers

Get involved!

Help us testing Apache CouchDB 1.6.0 rc5 ! You'll find all important information on release artefacts and test procedure here.

! You'll find all important information on release artefacts and test procedure here. 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.

Events

Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills

DevOps Engineer, New York, USA

Work for any of JS, UI/UX, Node, CouchDB experience (see tweet), can work remote

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The Meaning of Life - a talk (watch this!)

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

Posted at 06:17PM May 08, 2014 by Noah Slater in News | |