Its been some while now since there's been a real Fauxton update, and I wanted to take this opportunity to make a few exciting announcements.
First off, I want to say thank you to the CouchDB community as a whole for the fantastic uptake and collaboration on Fauxton, especially Garren Smith and Ryan Ramage, who have been knocking stuff out left and right. As of this afternoon, Fauxton has been brought into the master branch and further development will happen there or in topic branches. We're pushing for a preview or experimental release in the CouchDB 1.4 release, so please check things out and add any bugs, ideas or feature requests to JIRA. Also, Ryan has setup a live preview of Fauxton at: http://fauxton.iriscouch.com/fauxton/_design/fauxton/index.html and any topic branches named fauxton* will show up as separate databases, ie the branch fauxton-cool-feature will show up as the database fauxton.iriscouch.com/fauxton-cool-feature. Speaking of branches, the cloudant-labs/couchdb fauxton branch has been retired. The Apache CouchDB master branch is now the single source of truth for Fauxton, and likewise, JIRA is the place tracking tickets, under the Fauxton component. We've started adding various tickets to JIRA for open issues and future development, variety of different things if people are looking for We've also been hard at work making it easier to get up and running with Fauxton. All dependencies are now declared in package.json, and with Garren's new dev server, you don't need to build a local version of CouchDB to develop fauxton. The new steps are basically: $ npm install $ ./bin/grunt dev and you're up and running. All and all, Fauxton is cruising along. There is plently left to be done and plenty of room for more hands, so please do take Fauxton for a test drive and dive in! Fauxton code and readme: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/tree/master/src/fauxton JIRA Fauxton component: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB/component/12320406 -Russell
