On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks again for your feedback, James! I'd love to hear more from other > developers on this matter.
I have to say I agree with James on this one. SoC projects out to be stuff that can *finished* in a couple of months; Django on 3.0 is a long process, and a sorta-kinda version just isn't worth anyone's efforts. > I have a different view of GSoC projects. I don't think it should be an > isolated, "end of summer, end of story" project. I'm really glad you see it that way -- my dream for SoC is that students stick around and become contributors. However, that's something that's impossible to predict so we have to be pragmatic in what projects we accept. I have no reason to doubt your commitment, but something as big and open-ended as this project just isn't a good match. The biggest problem is maintainance. I don't think we've got the collective time and energy to maintain two parallel versions of Django -- even if one version is automatically generated with 2to3. It's hard enough maintaining 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 side-by-side; 3.0 isn't yet worth the effort. We've committed to 2.3 compatibility in Django 1.0, and that's what we'll do. Once that's behind us, we can start dropping older versions until we're ready to make the big jump. Jacob --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
