Hey Franck! On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Franck Eyraud <franck+couchd...@nospam.yrnm.net> wrote: > > It seems that plugin discussions don't create passionate debates... It's a > pity because it is really a good feature, and since from what I understood > taht the couchdb core might be reduced in the future, plugins will be always > used more.
There is nothing to discuss - it's very useful plugin and great idea to implement! Don't think that nobody cares because there was no responses from devs: most of them on CouchHack now and focused on code, fork merges and CouchDB (: > Maybe creating a plugin is not a in itself problem. I watched the > interesting talk[1] from Jason Smith which is a very good start. And it made > me realize that writing a plugin is in fact equivalent to writing a bit of > code in couchdb core. > > So what I need is to learn what a couchdb developer knows : couchdb > architecture and API. > > Is there any resource online where I can learn this stuff ? A quick start > guide to develop in couchdb (especially for people who never used erlang > before) ? Or is the only way to dig inside couchdb git tree and try to > understand ? Before doing this, I want to be sure I won't loose too much > time. So please people who entered the couchdb project later, how did you > reach your level ? Actually, there are plans to have such in our docs for developers guide section, but currently there is no any "official" information about. But we're working on to fix this (: However, you may found some useful blog posts over Internet and projects that are already hacked into CouchDB. For instance, you would love to see similar project that implements custom authentication with 3d party service: https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth About how to start...locate interesting module, take a look on his commit history, find out interesting functions, write some tests about to check and ensure in his behaviour or read existed ones. After that, create your own test case - it will be all "red", but thats ok. Trying to make it "green" will be your goal during developing or hacking. Don't make it too detailed from start, but you'll be happy to extend and improve it while adding new functions and featured. Not the best plan, but something to start from (; But anyway, don't fear erlang, don't fear write stuff and see it broken: in most cases it's easy to fix things quickly after 5 minutes googling or reading erlang docs or lyse[1]. Happy hacking! [1]: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ -- ,,,^..^,,,
