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| title: " CouchDB Weekly News, June 06" |
| id: 6b34d617-8a43-4a9d-b12b-2a71d260f10b |
| date: '2014-06-06 16:04:07 -0400' |
| categories: couchdb |
| tags: [] |
| permalink: couchdb/entry/couchdb_weekly_news_june_06 |
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| <h4>Weekly CouchDB meeting – <a href="http://wilderness.apache.org/archives/couchdb-meeting-04_06_2014-1388.html">summary</a></h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li><strong>1.6.0 release status</strong>: the vote had passed last week, binaries for Mac and Windows are <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@couchdb.apache.org/msg32998.html">ready for testing</a>. The release will be very soon, stay tuned!</li> |
| <li><strong>BigCouch merge</strong>: significant process has been made; testing is highly important now. We want to encourage everyone to help with testing <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1843">COUCHDB-1843</a> 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.</li> |
| <li><strong>Bylaws, Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement:</strong> all PMC members are asked for reviewing and commenting the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40511017">Bylaws</a> and the <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=41812010">Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement</a>. A thread about approval models and vetoes will be started on the mailing list.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h4>Releases in the CouchDB Universe</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/cores">cores 0.8.5</a> – CouchDB resources with validation</li> |
| <li><a href="https://github.com/daleharvey/pouchdb/releases/tag/2.2.3">PouchDB 2.2.3</a> – including various fixes and new features (see <a href="http://pouchdb.com/2014/06/01/pouchdb-2.2.3.html">release notes</a>)</li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/stork-odm">stork-odm 0.1.8</a> – providing a layer of document management over CouchDB</li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/nano-repository">nano-repository 0.0.2</a> – making using CouchDB via Nano even easier</li> |
| <li><a href="https://github.com/jo/couch-daemon">Couch-Daemon</a> – now with regexp enhanced <a href="https://github.com/jo/couch-daemon/pull/11">black- and whitelist support</a> and <a href="https://github.com/jo/couch-daemon/issues/9">bug fix</a>; the changes also had influence on <a href="https://github.com/jo/couchmagick">Couchmagick</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jo/dimensionist">Dimensionist</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jo/massage-couch">Massage Couch</a></li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/steelmesh-appsync">steelmesh-appsync 0.1.0</a> – Steelmesh CouchDB -> local filesystem synchronization engine</li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/cores">cores 0.8.5</a> – CouchDB resources with validation</li> |
| <li><a href="https://www.npmjs.org/package/docuri">docuri 4.0.2</a> – rich document ids for CouchDB</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h4>Opinions</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/wieckmedia/couchdb-utils">How to backup / restore demo data on Cloudant or CouchDB in sbt tasks</a></li> |
| <li>Mini-Tutorial: <a href="http://geduldig.github.io/twitterdb/index.html">Saving Tweets to a Database with Python and CouchDB</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <h4>Use Cases, Questions and Answers</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Google Groups: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pouchdb/LLZIyLjorLQ"><span id="t-t" class="GKA2MROCBDC">Are opening and closing connections to remote CouchDB handled automatically by PouchDB?</span></a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23907966/couchdb-automatic-archiving">CouchDB automatic archiving</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23942914/couchdb-and-couchbase-document-keys">CouchDB and Couchbase Document Keys</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23969378/couchdb-for-event-sourcing">CouchDB for event sourcing</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23983739/couchdb-filtered-replication-remove-a-document">CouchDB filtered replication - remove a document</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24034681/mobile-app-using-pouchdb-couchdb-and-mysql">Mobile app using PouchDB-CouchDB and MySQL</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><em>no public answer yet:</em></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23913309/couchdb-call-update-handler-within-validate-document">CouchDB call update handler within validate document</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23917425/i-am-using-ajax-put-call-to-insert-data-into-couchdb-but-get-79byte-file">I am using ajax PUT call to insert data into CouchDB but get 79byte file</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23950772/to-get-the-numbers-of-different-fields-in-couchdb">Getting the numbers of different fields in couchdb</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23968138/change-in-id-but-the-value-same-in-couchdb">Change in id but the value same in CouchDB</a></li> |
| <li>Stack Overflow: <a class="question-hyperlink" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24006715/couchdb-crashes-when-bound-to-public-ip">CouchDB crashes when bound to public ip</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <div id="question-header">For more new questions about CouchDB, see <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=couchdb%20) ?">these search results</a>.</div> |
| <h4>Get involved!</h4> |
| <p>If you want to get into working on CouchDB:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>We have an infinite number of open contributor positions on CouchDB. <a href="https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pulls">Submit a pull request</a> and join the project!</li> |
| <li>Here's a <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2178?jql=project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Fauxton%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20cf[12310270]%20%3D%20%22New%20Contributors%20Level%20%28Easy%29%22">list of <strong>beginner tickets</strong></a> around our currently ongoing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8b4kXBF01s">Fauxton</a>-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.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>We'd be happy to have you!</p> |
| <h4>Events</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li>June 10, Hamburg, Germany: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c8vu4a1n8b6aj27e0q1349kog74">CouchDB Meetup #2</a></li> |
| <li>June 10, Bristol, United Kingdom: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/south-west-data/events/174779262/">South West Data Social</a></li> |
| <li>June 11, Dortmund, Germany: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-dortmund/events/174124652/">OpenTechSchool Learners Meetup</a></li> |
| <li>June 12, Berlin, Germany: Time to relax! – <a href="http://www.meetup.com/CouchDB-Hack-Night-Berlin/events/174508342/">CouchDB Hack Night</a></li> |
| <li>June 16-17, San Francisco, USA: <a href="http://www.cloudantcon.com/">CloudantCON</a> | <a href="https://cloudantcon.eventbrite.com/?discount=CCPARTNER_CDB">tickets (discounted rate)</a></li> |
| <li>ApacheCon Europe will be from November 17-21 in Budapest. The Call for Papers <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/apachecon-europe/program/cfp">is now open</a> and we would like to encourage you to consider if you want to talk about CouchDB there.</li> |
| </ul> |
| <h4>Job opportunities for people with CouchDB skills</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/15299301?trk=api*a177321*s185509*">Senior Software Engineer</a>, <em>San Francisco, CA, USA</em></li> |
| </ul> |
| <h4>… and also in the news</h4> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://paulbakaus.com/tutorials/performance/the-illusion-of-motion/">The Illusion of Motion</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.polyglotprogramminginc.com/how-much-data-do-you-really-need/">How much Data do you really need?</a></li> |
| <li>"I never thought I'd say that "I'm freaking in love with a NoSQL database!" but then I found <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CouchDB">@CouchDB</a>" (Ryan Tablada <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanTablada/status/471860818191986688">on Twitter</a>)</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p><em>Posted on behalf of Lena Reinhard.</em></p> |
