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[John Rowland Lenton <john.lenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!

Because of scaling and security improvements, the Ubuntu One server-side
CouchDB servers are running CouchDB 1.0, which is the version in Ubuntu
10.10, rather than the 0.10 that is in 10.04 LTS. While this upgrade
enabled replication to scale to the number of users we have and allowed
us to open the service to users in 10.10, the replication protocol
changed between the two versions, and thus users on 10.04 are currently
unable to synchronize their Couch databases using the Ubuntu One
service.

We are asking for an exception to the LTS update rules to update the
couchdb package to 1.0. We have done some testing of the upgrade at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/CouchDBSRU but there is the concern that
people are using CouchDB in 10.04 via something other than desktopcouch,
and that the upgrade could potentially break these applications. In
order to address these concerns we are asking from input of the wider
Ubuntu developer community and of people using CouchDB in Ubuntu 10.04
LTS ("Lucid").

We've created a one-step anonymous survey to gather the data. Please
find the time to answer the simple question presented at

    http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/couchdb

Aditionally, please feel free to forward this to people who might want
to provide feedback on this issue.

Thank you,

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