On 5 Mar 2009, at 09:31, Jason Smith wrote:

> Hi, all.  I had a thought the other day and wanted to share:
>
> What are the chances that the free software movers and shakers could  
> successfully lobby CouchDB to be included in the Freedesktop.org  
> system?

"A couch on every desktop" sounds like a worthy cause and I think it  
makes sense to spend time on this :)


> Consider DBus, which is a mandatory component of Linux (actually,  
> Freedesktop) desktops, is now understood by all developers, leading  
> to more and more apps talking to each other over DBus.  I suggest  
> that having a document DB built in to all Linux desktops would be  
> true innovation for Linux development (especially since the GNOME  
> pundits want to move to "web-aware" desktops).
>
> If there is any chance in Hell that it could gain traction (I'm  
> enthusiastic but skeptical--IMHO "Linux desktop innovation" is a  
> myth, but I digress), I'd definitely volunteer to write code, as I  
> have relevant experience.  I'm thinking of two components:
>
> 1. Similar to DBus, you have one CouchDB process per user that runs  
> when he logs on and exits when he logs out.  (Maybe have a system- 
> wide CouchDB too but I'm not sure if there is a need.)
>
> 2. (I'm surprised this doesn't exist already) A DBus CouchDB client  
> API, so that nobody has to learn or use HTTP in their code, just the  
> well-known DBus.

So DBus is somehow more well known than HTTP? :)

Cheers
Jan
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>
> Given 1 and 2, any desktop app could just assume a private (for that  
> user) DB in the same way they assume a per-user-session DBus bus  
> today.  So, in summary, I'm asking if it's desirable that modern  
> distros bundle a document DB (Couch) for all apps to build from.
>
> -- 
> Jason Smith
> Proven Corporation
> Bangkok, Thailand
> http://www.proven-corporation.com
>