Mailing-List: contact dev-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
Received-SPF: neutral (nike.apache.org: local policy)
Subject: Re: How to make equivalent of WHERE on JOINed table in CouchDB?
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1077)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
From: Jan Lehnardt <jan@apache.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B256341.6080000@rogerbinns.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:53:01 -0800
Cc: user@couchdb.apache.org
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <4CA374F1-9465-4890-8591-2869A75FDCA7@apache.org>
References: <6adfa88d0912121238p3d31e20bn710d23357f80656e@mail.gmail.com>
 <4B240052.1050606@rogerbinns.com>
 <825006E0-851D-4086-A941-2F6FD6FC1678@apache.org>
 <4B256341.6080000@rogerbinns.com>
To: dev@couchdb.apache.org

Great feedback. Moving to dev@

Thanks Roger.

Cheers
Jan
--

On 13 Dec 2009, at 13:57, Roger Binns wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>=20
> Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>> The worst that could happen is that
>> people stop asking questions and I certainly don't want that.
>=20
> That is likely to happen with crossposting too because people are less
> likely to answer and they certainly won't go an answer in all =
locations so
> some of them won't have answers.

I think I'm willing to take that risk :)


> Anyone searching those locations first
> will then see a lack of answers and assume that CouchDB is dead or =
stagnant.

If people are really interested in CouchDB, they quickly discover the
active community. If they stop looking after one empty question, I don't
think they really care :)


>=20
>> The underlying problem is probably that the mailing list archives =
lack
>> any sort of features that people find useful on StackOverflow. Maybe
>> there's an angle to solve this in a nice way.
>=20
> How about fixing the home page to have a link about getting help in =
the "Get
> Involved" section.  (Currently you are encouraged to come up with =
patches
> which is a little too much at the beginning!)
>=20
> I've created a wiki page with what I think should be pointed to:
>=20
>  http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting%20Help
>=20
> I think it would be best if a Google Custom Search was created which
> automatically included the relevant locations (mailing list archive, =
wiki,
> bug tracker) and hosted on the front page of couchdb.org.
>=20
>  http://www.google.com/cse/
>=20
> BTW it is probably also worthwhile making the front page of =
couchdb.org
> indicate that the project is actually alive.  There is no date on the =
page,
> there is no "news" feed or even a link to news and pages like the =
roadmap
> have no dates and are out of date anyway.
>=20
> Roger
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
>=20
> iEYEARECAAYFAkslY0EACgkQmOOfHg372QQuLwCgoEfC6hDDDWVDD8ztrEDkhtl3
> WVsAoOATGBKZpUnhR+sIJEQ/3MMk1uKk
> =3DmxFM
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>=20