Hello David
On Jun 16, 2008, at 17:36, David Pitman wrote:
G'day,
I've been playing with CouchDB for a couple of weeks and will be
using it
for a couple of projects - but I need to have the security /
authentication
features available before I can go too much further with using it in
the
real world.
And a proxy/filter/middleware in front of CouchDB doesn't solve your
needs?
I'm very keen to help with making this happen if I can, before I
have a go -
- is this feature currently being worked on? If so, is further
help
required?
Nobody is currently working on this. We are still pretty much in the
design-
phase and not really there either since we are working on more pressing
things at the moment. Other folks have voiced interest in heling out,
but
haven't followed up yet.
- any tips for where and how to start? (I've read everything I
can find
via Google)
There's the general technical overview here:
http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/docs/overview.html and
http://www.automatthew.com/2008/01/planned-security-model-for-couchdb.html
includes a nice summary, but that is rather a suggestion
than a fixed and agreed-upon guideline. Any input is always appreciated.
- I am totally new to Erlang - am I likely to be able to contribute
anything useful to the project given that I'll have to learn the
language as
I go?
Yeah. Get Joe Armstrong's 'Programming Erlang' book and you are
good to go.
Thanks for all the good work on CouchDB so far - pretty nifty to say
the
least... If I've posted this to the wrong place - please let me
know where
it should have gone!
We're glad you like it and appreciate your desire to help.
Cheers
Jan
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