def METHOD_NAME():
    """
    The number of nodes to force an update/read in bigcouch to make sure
    we have a quorum. Should typically be the number of copies of a doc
    that end up in the cluster.
    """
    return (3 if not hasattr(settings, 'BIGCOUCH_QUORUM_COUNT')
            else settings.BIGCOUCH_QUORUM_COUNT)