Thanks Russell this is great.
On 20 Mar 2013, at 7:29 AM, Randall Leeds <[email protected]> wrote: > This is truly great stuff. > > I just spent a while playing around with that public instance. I > particularly love being able to dig into the gigan views and specify > the view options. > > Thanks for the tremendous effort! > > On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Russell Branca <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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
