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Subject: Re: The ApacheCon EU Announcements
From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
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Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:07:13 +0100
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marketing@ only:

In addition to the technical discussion:

Cloudant have offered to issue a press release on our behalf about the =
Developer Preview.

Is this something we=E2=80=99d like to take them up on?

I=E2=80=99m +1. My only concern was to not use too many of these because =
we want to make a big splash with the 2.0 release, but they said it is =
fine because CouchDB hasn=E2=80=99t been the most vocal project in the =
past, so we can do this one.

Best
Jan
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> On 10 Nov 2014, at 15:01 , Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org> wrote:
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> Hey all,
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> it is ApacheCon EU next week and CouchDB has a full track of great =
talks, yay! \o/
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http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/program/schedule=
 (Click on =E2=80=9CCouch=E2=80=9D in the side bar, to see all our talks =
:)
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> I=E2=80=99m 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=E2=80=99d like to make some forward looking =
statements about CouchDB 2.0.
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> 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.).
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> I=E2=80=99d 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.
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> To that end, I=E2=80=99d like to propose that we announce and =
release[1] a =E2=80=9CDeveloper Preview=E2=80=9D version of master as it =
is now (+ the _cluster_setup) work.
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> If you agree, what do you think we should be doing for this?
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> My short list is:
> 1. finish /_cluster_setup & Fauxton UI, to make cluster setup easier
> 2. write =E2=80=9Chow to get started=E2=80=9D guide
> 3. figure out what a =E2=80=9Crelease=E2=80=9D could look like.
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> For 1. I can do on the backend, but I=E2=80=99d love some help from =
the Fauxton team for the UI bits.
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> For 2. I can do too, but any volunteers are welcome :D
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> 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=E2=80=99t know =
how far away all of these are for us at this point. Can anyone shed some =
light on this?
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> * * *
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> Ideally, our Nov 17. Announcement says that everything is available =
right away.
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> Is there anything else that you think we absolutely need to do to make =
a =E2=80=9CDeveloper Preview=E2=80=9D of CouchDB 2.0? Do you see any =
significant issues with the things I outlined above?
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> Is there anything in particular that I should be mentioning in (one =
of) my ApacheCon EU talk(s)?
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> Thank you for your help!
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> Jan
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> [1]: This doesn=E2=80=99t have to be an ASF, capital R, Release,d =
putting up some tarballs somewhere would be fine.
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