Summary of IRC Meeting in #couchdb-meeting at Wed Feb 26 19:12:09 2014: Attendees: deathbear, awenkhh, davisp, Kxepal, bigbluehat, chewbranca
- Preface - 1.6 release - Action: awenkhh check if 1986 is still actual on OS X and how recbuf fix affects on it there - Link: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1986 - marketing - Link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Promotion - Link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Weekly+News - BigCouch and rcouch merge - L10n - cwiki - cwiki - Action: Kxepal to push Fauxton review results to JIRA - Link: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/CouchDB+Home - Link: http://piratepad.net/n0pfiqDD9W IRC log follows: ## Preface ## ## 1.6 release ## [Wed Feb 26 19:12:53 2014] <Kxepal>: this would be most important one since we delayed it by 3 months already [Wed Feb 26 19:13:43 2014] <Kxepal>: the reason why was COUCHDB-1986 issue which makes test suite fall on BSD systems: OS X and FreeBSD 10 for instance [Wed Feb 26 19:14:04 2014] <Kxepal>: #link https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1986 [Wed Feb 26 19:14:48 2014] <Kxepal>: the hot fix was found recently (at least for freebsd): there is need to increase recbuf value for mochiweb socket at least by 4 times [Wed Feb 26 19:15:13 2014] <Kxepal>: the actual source of problem is still unknown [Wed Feb 26 19:15:36 2014] <awenkhh>: there have been voices on the dev ml to not hold the release back further [Wed Feb 26 19:16:20 2014] <Kxepal>: so there is need to decide 1) would we ship 1.6 with such hot fix 2) where it will be defined. there are two options: patch mochiweb's define and set this option in default.ini [Wed Feb 26 19:16:55 2014] <Kxepal>: or 3) continue for debugging and stall release for more [Wed Feb 26 19:17:57 2014] <awenkhh>: Kxepal any idea if you can find the problem in a reasonable short period of time? [Wed Feb 26 19:18:02 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh: right, no hold the release. I could recall that [Wed Feb 26 19:18:28 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh: it's possible to fix it in a seconds [Wed Feb 26 19:18:47 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh: btw. do you still have timeout issue on mac? [Wed Feb 26 19:19:04 2014] <awenkhh>: Kxepal: the last time I tested no [Wed Feb 26 19:19:12 2014] <Kxepal>: with 1.6 branch? [Wed Feb 26 19:19:20 2014] <Kxepal>: e.g. without Nick's patch [Wed Feb 26 19:19:40 2014] <awenkhh>: iirc both fixes have been in it [Wed Feb 26 19:19:51 2014] <awenkhh>: Nick's and Benoit's [Wed Feb 26 19:20:07 2014] <awenkhh>: I will retest it and report to @dev [Wed Feb 26 19:21:27 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh: no, there are no his commits on 1.6 (according quick log scan) [Wed Feb 26 19:21:54 2014] <awenkhh>: sry ... I have to check this [Wed Feb 26 19:22:00 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh: yes, retest please and try to apply the patch from comment on 1986 [Wed Feb 26 19:22:06 2014] <awenkhh>: ok [Wed Feb 26 19:22:15 2014] <Kxepal>: I wonder how it will affect to you [Wed Feb 26 19:22:37 2014] <awenkhh>: yes .. I will report ... [Wed Feb 26 19:22:58 2014] <Kxepal>: #action awenkhh check if 1986 is still actual on OS X and how recbuf fix affects on it there [Wed Feb 26 19:23:13 2014] <Kxepal>: thanks! (: [Wed Feb 26 19:23:17 2014] <awenkhh>: :) ## marketing ## [Wed Feb 26 19:23:51 2014] <awenkhh>: when done we should really decide to release 1.6 or not [Wed Feb 26 19:24:05 2014] <Kxepal>: awenkhh, bigbluehat - that is yours topic (: [Wed Feb 26 19:24:38 2014] <awenkhh>: we startet to setup the marketing activities [Wed Feb 26 19:24:46 2014] <awenkhh>: *started [Wed Feb 26 19:25:06 2014] <awenkhh>: there are already some notes in cwiki [Wed Feb 26 19:26:06 2014] <awenkhh>: #link https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Promotion [Wed Feb 26 19:26:16 2014] <awenkhh>: #link https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Weekly+News [Wed Feb 26 19:26:43 2014] <awenkhh>: the idea is to start a list with recipients for news [Wed Feb 26 19:27:03 2014] <awenkhh>: they should receive updates on a weekly basis [Wed Feb 26 19:27:31 2014] <awenkhh>: nslater has also some staff info regarding this in between the next days [Wed Feb 26 19:27:31 2014] <Kxepal>: what about http://planet.couchdb.org/ and http://couchdbweekly.com/ ? [Wed Feb 26 19:27:44 2014] <awenkhh>: yeah - we need to reactivate them :) [Wed Feb 26 19:27:57 2014] <bigbluehat>: yeah, anyone know how with the planet? [Wed Feb 26 19:28:00 2014] <awenkhh>: so anyone is welcome to write blog posts [Wed Feb 26 19:28:08 2014] <bigbluehat>: pretty sure throwing something at dch is all thatâs needed for the couchdbweekly :) [Wed Feb 26 19:28:20 2014] <bigbluehat>: +1 for some collaborative link/post sharing thing [Wed Feb 26 19:28:28 2014] <bigbluehat>: that we can then funnel the great stuff out to press folks [Wed Feb 26 19:28:37 2014] <bigbluehat>: + twitter + whatever [Wed Feb 26 19:28:38 2014] <awenkhh>: yeah Dave will be back mid March [Wed Feb 26 19:28:40 2014] <Kxepal>: bigbluehat: I dig into ML and found that jan____ what the guy who set it up (: [Wed Feb 26 19:28:47 2014] <Kxepal>: s/what/was/ [Wed Feb 26 19:29:33 2014] <bigbluehat>: is it an Apache system? or something else? [Wed Feb 26 19:29:37 2014] <bigbluehat>: as in ASF [Wed Feb 26 19:29:40 2014] <awenkhh>: and not to forget about Ashley who wants to help also [Wed Feb 26 19:30:29 2014] <awenkhh>: I think we ares still in the setup stage but make good progress [Wed Feb 26 19:30:30 2014] <Kxepal>: I believe that it isn't ASF system: http://www.planetplanet.org/ [Wed Feb 26 19:31:00 2014] <bigbluehat>: yeah, I think keeping the stuff flowing through marketing@ for now is best [Wed Feb 26 19:31:01 2014] <Kxepal>: or may be it just hosted on ASF servers [Wed Feb 26 19:31:10 2014] <awenkhh>: but http://planet.couchdb.org/ is ? [Wed Feb 26 19:31:12 2014] <bigbluehat>: we may need to eventually setup a CouchDB marketing project on Jira [Wed Feb 26 19:31:18 2014] <bigbluehat>: or within Confluence once weâre over there [Wed Feb 26 19:31:42 2014] <awenkhh>: bigbluehat sounds good! [Wed Feb 26 19:31:57 2014] <bigbluehat>: letâs fork this https://github.com/glynnbird/birdreader :) [Wed Feb 26 19:32:31 2014] <bigbluehat>: we could change the UI a bit to focus on a post-by-post reading experience that matches the planet style [Wed Feb 26 19:32:43 2014] <awenkhh>: oh ... cool :) [Wed Feb 26 19:32:44 2014] <bigbluehat>: + a page for people to request theirs be addedâor route them to marketing@ for doing that [Wed Feb 26 19:35:46 2014] <Kxepal>: bigbluehat: interesting idea [Wed Feb 26 19:37:11 2014] <bigbluehat>: tnx. :) Iâll explore it some more and propose it on marketing@ [Wed Feb 26 19:37:57 2014] <awenkhh>: bigbluehat cool! [Wed Feb 26 19:38:13 2014] <bigbluehat>: :D [Wed Feb 26 19:38:20 2014] <bigbluehat>: k. we good on marketing@ discussion for now? [Wed Feb 26 19:38:27 2014] <awenkhh>: yes [Wed Feb 26 19:38:38 2014] <awenkhh>: next topic? ## BigCouch and rcouch merge ## [Wed Feb 26 19:49:37 2014] <awenkhh>: davisp &| rnewson could you give some short info [Wed Feb 26 19:51:22 2014] <davisp>: Most of the outstanding stuff is captured in the JIRA BigCouch component here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB/component/12321810 [Wed Feb 26 19:51:27 2014] <davisp>: Anything you want to know in particular? [Wed Feb 26 19:52:29 2014] <awenkhh>: I have already asked rnewson about the status yesterday and I was wondering if it is possible to say how far you are ... just to get an idea [Wed Feb 26 19:53:24 2014] <awenkhh>: I mean you have already made real great progress what is awesome :) ## L10n ## [Wed Feb 26 19:57:27 2014] <awenkhh>: I have the feeling, that translating the docs is on one hand hard and on the other hand not that much fun as some translators have expected :) [Wed Feb 26 19:57:55 2014] <awenkhh>: the progress is ok in the German lang but I can't see that many progress in the other languages [Wed Feb 26 19:58:48 2014] <awenkhh>: so we have to find a way to motivate the existing translators more and expand the team also [Wed Feb 26 19:59:37 2014] <awenkhh>: I hope I can work with Kxepal on integrating the first translated pages (what will be German) soon [Wed Feb 26 19:59:52 2014] <awenkhh>: and then adding a link to all pages in the docs to the translation tool or somewhere eles [Wed Feb 26 20:00:00 2014] <awenkhh>: *else [Wed Feb 26 20:00:14 2014] <awenkhh>: that's the status so far from my side ## cwiki ## ## cwiki ## [Wed Feb 26 20:04:58 2014] <awenkhh>: the new wiki is here https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/CouchDB+Home [Wed Feb 26 20:05:50 2014] <awenkhh>: there are already some pages but no structure for now. Kxepal, bigbluehat and me are working on this here http://piratepad.net/n0pfiqDD9W [Wed Feb 26 20:05:57 2014] <awenkhh>: #link https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/CouchDB+Home [Wed Feb 26 20:06:05 2014] <awenkhh>: #link http://piratepad.net/n0pfiqDD9W [Wed Feb 26 20:06:33 2014] <awenkhh>: everybody is invited to join the new wiki and help transferring the contents from the old one [Wed Feb 26 20:06:54 2014] <awenkhh>: if you need rights for editing just pin nslater Kxepal or awenkhh [Wed Feb 26 20:09:38 2014] <chewbranca>: awenkhh: not sure if deathbear or garren are around to comment on Fauxton stuff [Wed Feb 26 20:10:23 2014] <deathbear>: I don't really have anything to say about it. kxepal gave us a bunch of great feedback that we we going to start working on [Wed Feb 26 20:10:35 2014] <deathbear>: and then we have a bunch of new stuff we are starting to iterate on too [Wed Feb 26 20:10:46 2014] <deathbear>: Garren is on vacation this week [Wed Feb 26 20:11:15 2014] <awenkhh>: deathbear great - do you need any help? [Wed Feb 26 20:12:48 2014] <deathbear>: kxepal said he'd make us jira tickets for the issues that he found. There are a bunch. We'll just plug away at them. [Wed Feb 26 20:13:14 2014] <awenkhh>: deathbear ok great [Wed Feb 26 20:13:34 2014] <awenkhh>: Kxepal nearly done :) I tried to take your part :) [Wed Feb 26 20:13:44 2014] <Kxepal>: deathbear: that's right. sorry, I was full in 1986 debugging [Wed Feb 26 20:14:06 2014] <Kxepal>: #action Kxepal to push Fauxton review results to JIRA [Wed Feb 26 20:14:17 2014] <deathbear>: thanks Kxepal [Wed Feb 26 20:14:23 2014] <bigbluehat>: +1 Kxepal [Wed Feb 26 20:14:32 2014] <bigbluehat>: let me know if you need help with those [Wed Feb 26 20:16:01 2014] <Kxepal>: bigbluehat: thanks, but I think no need any. it's quite routine work [Wed Feb 26 20:17:02 2014] <bigbluehat>: cool. [Wed Feb 26 20:20:29 2014] <Kxepal>: ASFBot: meeting end Meeting ended at Wed Feb 26 20:20:29 2014
