On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Benjamin Young <byo...@bigbluehat.com> wrote: > Sphinx (for one...among many...), uses "_*" prefixed folders for it's > styles, templates, etc. So does Github's ghpages. ... > The point with "/_/" was to narrow the surface area of the API.
I'd like to point out that if the goal is to reduce API surface area to reduce collisions, using "_couchdb" for metadata is much less likely to collide than "_". It's also much more user friendly once the data is outside of CouchDB proper ("where is this doc._.id coming from?" etc.). Cheers, Eli