On Dec 30, 12:49 pm, Sean Brant <brant.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > The last thing that needs to happen is bulling this into core. It's no > good for the community and that could be part of the perceived > perceptions problem. Just because enough people bitch does not mean > that its a good thing. With that said the reason behind the ticket > being closed no longer seems valid. > > A template filter for shortening a string seems like a logical > addition to truncatewords. At the very least reassessing the ticket > status might be a good start.
I'll make this my last reply.. promise. :) But how is this bullying? I mean, there was a clean patch submitted, complete with unit tests, years ago. There is clearly demand, and has been for at least a few years. If anything, the bullying seems to be against the 'users' by the 'devs' rather than the other way around. It all seems like a bit of a mountain out of a mole hill. It is one tiny filter, with clear demand and no side effects to other parts of the system. I couldn't think of a lower risk patch. I guess my question is, what in the world is the minus? You satisfy a demonstrated need for a very low effort and with no side effects. As a last little quip, I have to say I do understand the resistance to change, and also fully understand how one becomes a bit entrenched in a way of doing things after working on a product for many years. But at the same time, you really have to appreciate what users, especially NEW users say about their experience. It is near impossible to get into that mindset again after you have used a system for a while. Yes, truncate is something that is easily worked around, but it is also something that lots of new users to Django seem to miss, and it is a shame to make them all reinvent that wheel again and again. That is all from me. ;) -Nic -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
