Re: organizing docs

2012-09-12 Thread john.tiger
@Noah glad you like the idea of a docs team (it will let the core team concentrate on the db inner workings) I propose that we set a couple of menu buttons on the main page - maybe as a start: - docs -- couchdb api docs (or whatever you are working on) -- definitive guide

no communication ? signs of a dying project

2012-09-18 Thread john.tiger
I've tried to get things going on documentation (probably the biggest reason couchdb is not more popular) - I put an initial outline forward - then nothing - no response. this is not how to build a successful contributor community. Certainly not like active great projects like nodejs,

Re: no communication ?

2012-09-18 Thread john.tiger
On 09/18/2012 09:25 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: Also, from experience, the best chance to get things moving here is starting, and showing some work. This usually gets other people excited and contributing. Like everywhere else :) thks for fast communication:) sure, I'm just trying to get us

Re: Weekly CouchDB IRC meeting

2012-09-24 Thread john.tiger
uh, poll times are in what time zone ? - guess I've already missed most of them - mon am is not a good time with work constraints - GMT 0 is a pretty good time (late Europe, late aft US, early morning Asia (i think) or something like that - Mon-Thurs - just set a time, those who can will

Re: Part2: What's up dev? About couchapps.

2012-09-24 Thread john.tiger
we tried last winter to do a couchapp - gave up after never really getting it to work - forget kanso - forget the garden thing someone mentioned - they are all too complicated all we wanted was straight forward design docs to load up (no node, no python, just vim ...) and real good docs to

Re: couch has docs!

2012-09-26 Thread john.tiger
okay, thks - now what is plan - if docs go into /couchdb/docs then should stuff in wiki be ported over ? having both docs and wiki is confusing unless really clear what goes into what. On 09/26/2012 03:02 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: Hi, After much hand-wringing gnashing of teeth, we now

Re: couch has docs!

2012-09-26 Thread john.tiger
On 09/26/2012 03:47 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: On 26 September 2012 23:44, john.tigerjohn.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: okay, thks - now what is plan - if docs go into /couchdb/docs then should stuff in wiki be ported over ? having both docs and wiki is confusing unless really clear what goes

Re: couch has docs!

2012-09-26 Thread john.tiger
maybe it's late, but I cannot figure out the docs build from linux make html did not work, neither did python conf.py - what am i missing ? On 09/26/2012 03:02 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: Hi, After much hand-wringing gnashing of teeth, we now have a /docs/ branch in git[1], [2], and

Re: couch has docs!

2012-09-27 Thread john.tiger
On 09/27/2012 12:39 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: On 27 September 2012 07:07, john.tigerjohn.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: maybe it's late, but I cannot figure out the docs build from linux make html did not work, neither did python conf.py - what am i missing ? Hi John, Thanks for giving it a

Re: couch has docs!

2012-09-27 Thread john.tiger
On 09/27/2012 01:28 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:07 PM, john.tigerjohn.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/27/2012 12:39 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: On 27 September 2012 07:07, john.tigerjohn.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: maybe it's late, but I cannot figure out the

Re: couchdb pull request: Many fixes to $.couch

2012-10-23 Thread john.tiger
thks for info - not entirely sure how this will integrate with the upcoming CORS commit but when that appears, we will try to use all of it in a non-couchapp html5 program - previously we could not get things running with lots of cross-domain errors, etc. Should make for a good test and a

Re: Futon.Next

2012-10-25 Thread john.tiger
2 thoughts: 1) would suggest to base it on erica rather than introduce a nodejs dependency (though encourage any nodejs based alternatives) 2) some talk on irc yesterday re version number - would strong recommend that futon.next be versioned in sync with couchdb - I've seen other projects

Re: [EVENT] couchdb dev meeting, today 2012/10/31 - 08:00 PM UTC

2012-10-31 Thread john.tiger
On 10/31/2012 06:04 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: Thanks Benoit, this is very useful! :) On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:25 , Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: Just a friendly reminder. We have a couchdb dev meeting on 8PM today when giving times - please indicate time zone - assume this is same

Re: CORS support

2012-10-31 Thread john.tiger
On 10/31/2012 05:52 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: Hello all, So I finally committed my patch about CORS support following the current W3C working draft [1]. This patch support simple and preflights requests for a couchdb node. Configuration can also be done for a specific vhost. okay, what am I

Re: Futon.Next Proof of Concept

2012-11-01 Thread john.tiger
On 11/01/2012 03:28 AM, Simon Metson wrote: Haven't run it yet, but the structure looks pretty good. The key decisions so far seem to be: - build with grunt - backbone - require.js (yes?) - LESS And I take no issue with any of those. Great! Garren has a change to the deployment script (to

Re: CORS support

2012-11-03 Thread john.tiger
On 11/03/2012 12:15 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: bump. Anyone tried it ? we are trying it today - delayed by not realizing we needed to run autoconf (should be in docs)

cors branch testing

2012-11-03 Thread john.tiger
a few questions so far: 1) where does cors_enable=true get set - tried to do sudo ./configure --cors_enable that didn't work 2) ini file ? is that a windows thing ? - also would be helpful to have an example of that 3) using autoconf gave the following: configure.ac:22: error: possibly

Re: CORS support

2012-11-04 Thread john.tiger
On 11/04/2012 01:34 AM, Simon Metson wrote: Hi John, we are trying it today - delayed by not realizing we needed to run autoconf (should be in docs) It is, in the DEVELOPERS file (which took me a while to notice, too). okay and with @randall's suggestion ./bootstrap seemed to work okay -

Re: cors branch testing

2012-11-04 Thread john.tiger
On 11/04/2012 06:09 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: cors_enable=true is a setting in default or local.ini not a configure argument. okay, got it, ignore my reply to Simon - will continue on. we'll test with the default for all cross domains - then would like to figure out from your instructions

Re: cors branch testing

2012-11-04 Thread john.tiger
On 11/04/2012 06:09 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: cors_enable=true is a setting in default or local.ini not a configure argument. - benoît On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:44 AM, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: a few questions so far: 1) where does cors_enable=true get set - tried to do

Re: cors branch testing

2012-11-04 Thread john.tiger
On 11/04/2012 08:19 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: do not see any cors_enable in either default or local ini - easy enough to add but want to be sure if it should already be in the ini files in this build or that I don't

Re: cors branch testing

2012-11-04 Thread john.tiger
/default_dev.ini local_dev.ini Cheers Jan -- On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:09 AM, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.comwrote: On 11/04/2012 08:19 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 4:07 PM, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: do not see any cors_enable in either default

Re: [REMINDER] Today's meeting

2012-11-07 Thread john.tiger
On 11/07/2012 08:34 AM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: useful reminder. thanks! Any topic in view? cors testing - maybe others have results to discuss, sorry we're so slow on this - got the branch built and running - within hours should be trying it out with calls - where are we on go - no go

Re: We should be at ApacheCon North America in February 2013

2012-11-08 Thread john.tiger
since we're fairly close (by western US standards) and I've been formulating a presentation on how I believe that the right stack for modern mobile apps is not mvc but html5, css3, jquery, REST based db - I will submit this before Sunday meanwhile need to continue working on implementing and

cors testing build

2012-11-11 Thread john.tiger
just went to compile on another debian testing machine I'm getting that spider monkey version is too new ? xulrunner-devel-10.0 that same version formerly compiled the stable couchdb package. maybe something else is at play here ?

Re: cors testing build

2012-11-11 Thread john.tiger
On 11/11/2012 02:33 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: On 11 November 2012 21:36, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: just went to compile on another debian testing machine I'm getting that spider monkey version is too new ? xulrunner-devel-10.0 that same version formerly compiled

Re: cors testing build

2012-11-12 Thread john.tiger
On 11/12/2012 10:59 AM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: On 12 November 2012 00:06, john.tiger john.tigernas...@gmail.com wrote: removed the xulrunner stuff - ran configure with libmozjs (as per wiki) - still same newer version error - this is on Debian Testing amd64? i386? i386 but hopefully w

Re: cors testing build

2012-11-12 Thread john.tiger
On 11/12/2012 03:36 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: ./configure --enable-js-trunk thks on debian testing i386 configure runs okay but make breaks couch_js/util.c: In function ‘couch_print’: couch_js/util.c:216:33: error: invalid operands to binary == (have ‘jsval’ and ‘jsval’) make[4]: ***

Re: Let’s ship 1.3.0 now.

2012-11-13 Thread john.tiger
this feels rushed - not a good thing with an enterprise thing like a db - does couch have big users that need the as is 1.3 features asap or even sponsors that are wanting to ship every 3 mos regardless ? If not, why not wait and rally troops to make sure cors features are set, documentation

Re: [jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1593) Raise erlang/OTP minimum version to R13B04

2012-11-29 Thread john.tiger
On 11/29/2012 04:05 AM, Robert Newson (JIRA) wrote: [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1593?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanelfocusedCommentId=13506395#comment-13506395 ] Robert Newson commented on COUCHDB-1593:

1.3 branch with cors ?

2012-12-02 Thread john.tiger
what is appropriate branch to test ? does 1.3 or master have cors merged in ? we could not get earlier cors branch to build due to spider monkey depend - running on debian testing