Hi Jan, I have a list with potentially blocking issues that are affecting Fauxton:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project+%3D+COUCHDB+AND+resolution+%3D+Unresolved+AND+priority+%3D+Blocker+ORDER+BY+key+DESC I can try to help you whenever I have time this week with /_setup_clusters, however my main project will be some internal stuff this week. Best, Robert On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > it is ApacheCon EU next week and CouchDB has a full track of great talks, > yay! \o/ > > http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/program/schedule > (Click on “Couch” in the side bar, to see all our talks :) > > I’m scheduled to give a CouchDB State of the Union kind of talk on Monday > morning and aside from where we are coming from and what the current state > is, I’d like to make some forward looking statements about CouchDB 2.0. > > The big news, of course, is the BigCouch merge and what this means for > CouchDB. There are also various bits and pieces about things that we have > done outside of that (the rcouch merge), as well as a few things that are > part of the merge, but are worth pointing out on its own (like better > compaction e.g.). > > I’d like to do one better though. Bob Newson has already mentioned a few > times that master is now in a state that it would be great if more people > could get their hands on it. > > To that end, I’d like to propose that we announce and release[1] a “Developer > Preview” version of master as it is now (+ the _cluster_setup) work. > > If you agree, what do you think we should be doing for this? > > My short list is: > 1. finish /_cluster_setup & Fauxton UI, to make cluster setup easier > 2. write “how to get started” guide > 3. figure out what a “release” could look like. > > > For 1. I can do on the backend, but I’d love some help from the Fauxton team > for the UI bits. > > For 2. I can do too, but any volunteers are welcome :D > > For 3. I only have a vague understanding of how to do releases in a 2.0 world > overall. Ideally, we have something that puts out nightly tarballs (easily > done on our CI server). A next step and nice to have would be pre-built > binaries for people to run, as well as a Docker/Vagrant/etc setup that people > can use. But I don’t know how far away all of these are for us at this point. > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > * * * > > Ideally, our Nov 17. Announcement says that everything is available right > away. > > Is there anything else that you think we absolutely need to do to make a > “Developer Preview” of CouchDB 2.0? Do you see any significant issues with > the things I outlined above? > > Is there anything in particular that I should be mentioning in (one of) my > ApacheCon EU talk(s)? > > Thank you for your help! > > Jan > -- > [1]: This doesn’t have to be an ASF, capital R, Release,d putting up some > tarballs somewhere would be fine. > > >
