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The Hindraf Gathering

The Hindraf gathering was a success, judging by a MalaysiaKini report:
About 10,000 protesters demonstrated under the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Twin Towers after their efforts to petition the British High Commission was thwarted by the police with tear gas and chemical-laced water cannon.

The protesters had attempted to gather outside the high commission early this [...]

CouchDB 0.7.0 Fedora Core RPM

A Fedora Core 6 RPM is available for CouchDB-0.7.0:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb-0.7.0-1.rpm
and it’s spec file:
http://ditesh.gathani.org/foss/couchdb/couchdb.spec
I’ll start the review process and attempt to get a sponsor to get the RPM into Fedora. Feedback is much appreciated.

FreeBSD CouchDB port

I was supposed to spend this week hacking up a PECL extension for SCTP, but on the heels of the CouchDB 0.7.0 release, I decided to write up and submit a FreeBSD port. Judging from the mailing list, Debian package and Gentoo ebuild are available too.
Tomorrow, I’ll attempt to get a Fedora RPM for the [...]

CouchDB 0.7 released

Here goes the release announcement:
Damien Katz and the CouchDB development team are proud to announce:
   CouchDB version 0.7.0 is now available at
   http://code.google.com/p/couchdb/downloads/list
This release is a major milestone in the project’s history.
Key features include:

  a REST API using JSON instead of XML for data transport,

  a JavaScript view engine based on Mozilla Spidermonkey,

  a GNU [...]

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