Hey Benjamin, shouldn't it read
"... JavaScript for *creating* MapReduce indexes ... " then to make it even clearer? Cheers Andy On 26 February 2014 17:40, Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > There's a larger effort to rethink/rewrite the CouchDB Website--which is > greatly needed, so super fabulous that we're endeavoring to do that. :) > > Before we get there (or as we walk that road), there's some low hanging > fruit that I think we can and should pick first. I'd like to start at the > top, and work my way down a section at a time. > > The first line on the website (ignoring navigation) reads this way > currently: > > Apache CouchDB^(TM) is a database > that uses JSON for documents, > JavaScript for MapReduce queries, > and regular HTTP for an API > > However, that's incorrect (JavaScript isn't used for querying) and has > confused many people--including some analysts and tech bloggers in the wake > of the Cloudant/IBM announcement. > > So, to correct this and make that section tighter, I'd like to propose the > following: > > Apache CouchDB^(TM) is a database > that uses JSON for documents, > JavaScript for MapReduce indexes > and regular HTTP for its API > > Screenshot of this new text in place is here: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ld6im36ql74jbo9/Screen%20Shot% > 202014-02-26%20at%2011.22.21%20AM.png > Short: http://bit.ly/1mBwAmj > > It's a small iteration (by design), but hopefully clears up the common > confusion around indexing vs. querying. > > Thoughts welcome. > > Thanks! > Benjamin > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
