CouchDB Weekly News, June 06
Weekly CouchDB meeting – summary
- 1.6.0 release status: the vote had passed last week, binaries for Mac and Windows are ready for testing. The release will be very soon, stay tuned!
- BigCouch merge: significant process has been made; testing is highly important now. We want to encourage everyone to help with testing COUCHDB-1843 branch, especially :5984 API iface. Info: to run the bigcouch from merge branch: clone couchdb.git, checkout 1843-feature-bigcouch, ./configure && make && dev/run. Please report any errors you find during testing on dev@ Mailing list or on IRC #couchdb-dev.
- Bylaws, Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement: all PMC members are asked for reviewing and commenting the Bylaws and the Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement. A thread about approval models and vetoes will be started on the mailing list.
Releases in the CouchDB Universe
- cores 0.8.5 – CouchDB resources with validation
- PouchDB 2.2.3 – including various fixes and new features (see release notes)
- stork-odm 0.1.8 – providing a layer of document management over CouchDB
- nano-repository 0.0.2 – making using CouchDB via Nano even easier
- Couch-Daemon – now with regexp enhanced black- and whitelist support and bug fix; the changes also had influence on Couchmagick, Dimensionist, Massage Couch
- steelmesh-appsync 0.1.0 – Steelmesh CouchDB -> local filesystem synchronization engine
- cores 0.8.5 – CouchDB resources with validation
- docuri 4.0.2 – rich document ids for CouchDB
Opinions
- How to backup / restore demo data on Cloudant or CouchDB in sbt tasks
- Mini-Tutorial: Saving Tweets to a Database with Python and CouchDB
Use Cases, Questions and Answers
- Google Groups: Are opening and closing connections to remote CouchDB handled automatically by PouchDB?
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB automatic archiving
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB and Couchbase Document Keys
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB for event sourcing
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB filtered replication - remove a document
- Stack Overflow: Mobile app using PouchDB-CouchDB and MySQL
no public answer yet:
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB call update handler within validate document
- Stack Overflow: I am using ajax PUT call to insert data into CouchDB but get 79byte file
- Stack Overflow: Getting the numbers of different fields in couchdb
- Stack Overflow: Change in id but the value same in CouchDB
- Stack Overflow: CouchDB crashes when bound to public ip
For more new questions 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!
- 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.
We'd be happy to have you!
Events
- June 10, Hamburg, Germany: CouchDB Meetup #2
- June 10, Bristol, United Kingdom: South West Data Social
- June 11, Dortmund, Germany: OpenTechSchool Learners Meetup
- June 12, Berlin, Germany: Time to relax! – CouchDB Hack Night
- June 16-17, San Francisco, USA: CloudantCON | tickets (discounted rate)
- ApacheCon Europe will be from November 17-21 in Budapest. The Call for Papers is now open and we would like to encourage you to consider if you want to talk about CouchDB there.
Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills
- Senior Software Engineer, San Francisco, CA, USA
… and also in the news
- The Illusion of Motion
- How much Data do you really need?
- "I never thought I'd say that "I'm freaking in love with a NoSQL database!" but then I found @CouchDB" (Ryan Tablada on Twitter)
Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.