Assuming nothing's changed in the last few weeks, there are 2 issues
which cause the PouchDB tests to fail against master: COUCHDB-3017 and
COUCHDB-3034.

Both could be addressed in the test suite by using different database
names for each test, but that's quite a disruptive change.

On 2 September 2016 at 03:15, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Nolan, you state that it's 'failing for known reasons.' Is that
> reasons in PouchDB or anything you need to push back on us? We'd like
> to know ASAP as we're very, very close to releasing 2.0 now.
>
> I have zero PouchDB knowledge so I'm hoping you can give us a short
> summary of what you think is wrong.
>
> All the best,
> Joan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nolan Lawson" <no...@nolanlawson.com>
>> To: dev@couchdb.apache.org
>> Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2016 7:56:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: Getting libraries to test RCs
>>
>> We have been testing CouchDB master in PouchDB for months now, but as
>> an allowed failure because I believe it’s failing for known reasons.
>> We test both using Node.js and the browser.
>>
>> Node: https://travis-ci.org/pouchdb/pouchdb/jobs/156198210
>> Browser: https://travis-ci.org/pouchdb/pouchdb/jobs/156198211
>>
>> For anyone who wants to run the Pouch test suite against CouchDB,
>> it’s just:
>>
>> git clone https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb.git
>> cd pouchdb
>> npm I
>> COUCH_HOST=http://localhost:5984 BAIL=0 npm t
>>
>> BAIL=0 will tell it to run the full test suite and not stop on any
>> failures. That way you can inspect the failures and see if they’re
>> serious or not.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nolan
>>
>> > On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Anyone on this list who could help with this? The work items are
>> > fairly self-explanatory and not very big individually <3
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Jan
>> > --
>> >
>> >> On 10 Aug 2016, at 09:37, Jan Lehnardt <j...@apache.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hey everyone,
>> >>
>> >> from Joan’s excellent blog post about testing Release Candidates:
>> >>
>> >>> To our valued CouchDB application and library developers: please,
>> >>> please run your software against each of the options below.
>> >>
>> >> — https://blog.couchdb.org/2016/08/08/release-candidates/
>> >>
>> >> I think we can be a little more proactive about this for CouchDB
>> >> client libraries: let’s open issues on all the CouchDB-compatible
>> >> client software we care about to test an RC.
>> >>
>> >> Since there are a lot of projects, and we don’t necessarily know
>> >> which one we “care” about, we should try to be clever about it.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe something like this can work:
>> >>
>> >> 1. We prepare an issue text explaining the thing: Heya, CouchDB
>> >> team here, major new version coming up, you should test it like
>> >> so: <include instructions to test against a 3-node cluster. Maybe
>> >> even provide a cluster to do this, or Cloudant can sponsor
>> >> something?
>> >>
>> >> 2. Post this message with a call to action on user@c.a.o, the
>> >> weekly news, and our other (social) media channels.
>> >>
>> >> 3. Ask people who submitted an issue to report back with a link.
>> >>
>> >> 4. Collect the link in an issue or JIRA (this could be done in 3.,
>> >> but then everybody needs to be added to the wiki write group, and
>> >> that’s just extra overhead we don’t need). Maybe we borrow a gist
>> >> for this, or a Google doc.
>> >>
>> >> That way we encourage client software to check out RCs and we can
>> >> keep track, while the community helps to select which software to
>> >> encourage to test 2.0 compat, and helps spread the word and the
>> >> burden is not left with just a few folks.
>> >>
>> >> What do you think?
>> >>
>> >> Best
>> >> Jan
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Professional Support for Apache CouchDB:
>> > https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/
>> >
>>
>>

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