Preface
Thanks for purchasing this book! If it was a gift, then congratulations. If, on the other hand, you downloaded it without paying, well, actually, we’re pretty happy about that too! This book is available under a free license, and that’s important because we want it to serve the community as documentation—and documentation should be free.
So, why pay for a free book? Well, you might like the warm fuzzy feeling you get from holding a book in your hands, as you cosy up on the couch with a cup of coffee. On the couch...get it? Bad jokes aside, whatever your reasons, buying the book helps support us, so we have more time to work on improvements for both the book and CouchDB. So thank you!
We set out to compile the best and most comprehensive collection of CouchDB information there is, and yet we know we failed. CouchDB is a fast-moving target and grew significantly during the time we were writing the book. We were able to adapt quickly and keep things up-to-date, but we also had to draw the line somewhere if we ever hoped to publish it.
At the time of this writing, CouchDB 0.10.1 is the latest release, but you might already be seeing 0.10.2 or even 0.11.0 released or being prepared—maybe even 1.0. Although we have some ideas about how future releases will look, we don’t know for certain and didn’t want to make any wild guesses. CouchDB is a community project, so ultimately it’s up to you, our readers, to help shape the project.
On the plus side, many people successfully run CouchDB ...