Jacob writes: > It's hard enough maintaining 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 side-by-side...
Do you maintain them side-by-side, or do you just reject patches that require new features introduced in 2.4 and 2.5? (I just assumed that you maintain 2.3 compatibility by testing on 2.3.) -- Daryl On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
