HI Robert, thanks for raising this question (instead of me)!
I'd like to add one moment about releasing Fauxton in one of CouchDB 1.x: currently with Futon we ships not web admin interface, but also a couple of JavaScript libraries that was traditionally been used by various couchapps: jquery, jquery.couch, jquery.ui and others client library which is very handy for making rich and interactive show and list functions. That becomes common practice to reuse them in own couchapp instead of shipping them separately. So, if we tends to replace Futon in 1.x we have to keep all these libraries at all their current locations - otherwise we'll introduce breaking change. Releasing Fauxton with BigCouch as 2.0 gives us green light to remove all these JS batteries from CouchDB without guilty that we've broke something (since BigCouch already introduces some breaking changes afaik). So I'm +1 for release Fauxton as 2.0: this gives more time to make it better, this removes headaches with keeping our JS batteries, this makes 2.0 release more awesome. Seems like it would be much more easy way to go. For 1.x users Fauxton also remains available and we can (we should) provide instructions how to keep it up-to-dated (e.g. replicate it from http://fauxton.iriscouch.com/master or build from source). -- ,,,^..^,,, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: > The BigCouch Merge is doing well and there was the topic regarding the > Fauxton Release during the last meeting on Wednesday. I think there was > agreement, that Fauxton will be definitly replacing Futon in 2.0. > > After reading the log I had a short chat with Joan regarding the topic and > the BigCouch merge is from a gut feeling more a matter of weeks and not > months. > > Basically we can: > > - Release Fauxton as a 1.x > - Release Fauxton with BigCouch as 2.0 > > I would like to get with you into the discussion how we should release > Fauxton (1.7 or 2.0 - or maybe even on a patchlevel like 1.6.1), how far > the development of Fauxton is and what is definitely missing for a release > or blocking it, like "Clarify Futon/Fauxton transition" ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1954) > > Best, > Robert
