On 05 Jan 2014, at 12:09 , Hans J Schroeder <h...@cloudno.de> wrote:

> I recently tried the new plugin system. It is a great feature. But I guess
> something needs to be done with the version checking. Checksums are too
> restrictive. Actually I couldn't install any plugin, although it would run,
> for instance geocouch 1.3 on CouchDB 1.5. With the current pace of
> releasing CouchDBs, Devs would also be forced to update all their plugins
> at the same pace. NPM is much more flexible with regard to versioning.

Excellent point. I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2023

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> 
> - Hans
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 14 Nov 2013, at 17:33 , Brian Mitchell <br...@strmpnk.co> wrote:
>> 
>>>>>> # 4. plans for 1.6 release #
>>>>>> 19:15:31 [Kxepal]: btw. any plans for 1.6 release?
>>>>>> 19:15:46 [awenkhh]: when is 1.6 release scheduled for?
>>>>>> 19:15:46 [Kxepal]: one feature we have: stable Fauxton and replacement
>>>>>> Futon withit. any other goals?
>>>>>> 19:16:37 [Kxepal]: awenkhh: theoretically, there is release per one
>>>>>> month schedule, but practically month or two
>>>>>> 19:16:57 [Kxepal]: so it might be "holidays" release
>>>>>> 19:17:04 [awenkhh]: ;-)
>>>>>> 19:17:04 [Humbedooh]: a christmas couch :)
>>>>>> 19:17:18 [Kxepal]: yea!
>>>>>> 19:17:18 [Humbedooh]: Manger 1.6
>>>>>> 19:17:18 [nslater]: awenkhh: we should kick it off in one month
>>>>>> 19:17:25 [nslater]: but completing it may take longer because hols
>>>>>> 19:17:34 [jan____]: I’d like to work more on plugins and get the node
>>>>>> query server improved
>>>>> 
>>>>> Should have this somewhere here:
>>>>>> 19:22:46 [strmpnk]: jan____: any milestones for that in mind or just
>>>>>> general progress?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I do think we should make sure experimental code doesn’t dwindle in
>> the tree, not that these new additions are at all old. Having some
>> intermediate milestones before we make these things stable would be
>> interesting.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For the plugins, it’d be good to have some contributed plugins users
>> can easily activate to test the system.
>>>> 
>>>> I agree, src/couch_plugins/README.md has a quasi roadmap that I want to
>> work
>>>> towards. The only edit for now would be that I’d like a registry that
>> can be
>>>> update independently from CouchDB releases. Would you be interested in
>> helping
>>>> out with that? Or anything else around plugins?
>>> 
>>> I'm definitely interested to hear more. I'd love to help out with
>>> getting a common place for contributed couchdb things to be indexed
>>> and published. Plugins seem like an ideal testing ground. How do you
>>> imagine a plugin registry working?
>> 
>> I’ve filed a JIRA issue here:
>> 
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2015
>> 
>> (and more for plugins at
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2015?jql=component%20%3D%20Plugins%20AND%20project%20%3D%20COUCHDB%20AND%20resolution%20%3D%20Unresolved%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC
>> )
>> 

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