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Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code topics
From: Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
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I wouldn't point the points 8/9 too many questions to solve before I
thiink. However I have 1 other topic in mind: improve the stats so we
can have better  in feedback rt and possibility to store it on other
stats systems (graphite, statsd ...)

- benoit

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <dch@jsonified.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> GSOC[1][2] registration for ASF closes this weekend, and we'd like to
> get some proposals into it, viz http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html
> from last year.
>
> If you reply, please do so just to the dev@ list -- note I BCC'd
> users@ for some ideas.
>
> I've got a few suggestions to get the ball rolling, with numbers where
> taken from the future features list:
> https://gist.github.com/rnewson/2387973
>
> 6. implement a Domain-Specific Language to run within the Erlang VM,
> to support native speed filtering, validation, and indexing in
> addition to the current in-built JS and erlang ones. Maybe something
> that includes http://jsonselect.org/
>
> 8/9. Rewire CouchDB's HTTP layer to support websockets and spdy. I
> think this implies switching to cowboy, this could be too messy.
>
> 12. Extend CouchDB's query model (e.g.
> https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage) to
> support a richer syntax.
>
> 13/14. Implement partial reads and updates of documents,
>
> Make the javascript view engine faster. Could include v8 bindings,
> different / parallel communication approaches between erlang and
> javascript worlds, avoiding reparsing JSON roundtrips, and make it
> faster than the current spidermonkey implementation.
>
> Implement external storage of attachments and appropriate HTTP API
> hooks incl replication to allow hosting attachments outside the .couch
> files, either on local storage, or in cloud blob storage (S3, azure
> etc).
>
> Implement a view development sandbox, where you can easily prototype
> with a sub-set of documents without long build times.
>
> Add an optional HTTP compression layer to CouchDB. It would be really
> cool if you could do the compression during doc update (or view
> creation or something) so that it can be served directly next time.
> See https://github.com/lgerbarg/couchdb/tree/gzip-support for a prior
> implementation or https://gist.github.com/archaelus/76455 for a
> file-based approach, and
> http://visualstart.blogspot.co.at/2012/02/mochiweb-erlang-and-gzip.html
> for some other ideas.
>
> Develop a plugin API & rework the authentication layer to allow
> plugging in ErLDAP, nodejs with EveryAuth or PassportJS or in fact
> anything you like.
>
> Extend geocouch and/or couchdb with some of Volker's ideas (cue
> Volker). Or stuff like quadtrees, geohashes or hilbert curves.
>
> Finally, if you are interested in being a mentor, please speak up!
>
> A+
> Dave
>
> [1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013
> [2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/google-summer-of-code-discuss/yYM2ru4bTeo