I have absolutely no pull in decision making, but maybe my message will count towards a "community voice".
I think that including an image thumbnail package that integrates into the database as easily as sorl.thumbnail and easy_thumbnail are is a great idea. From what I can tell, sorl.thumbnail was the de facto standard for getting thumbnails in to Django, and I think it has just as much of a place in Django contrib as some of the other contrib apps do. I don't think it belongs in the core, but contrib seems like an excellent place for it to go along with the other batteries in the pack. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Yo-Yo Ma <baxterstock...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no data to support the following assertion, but it's not too > unreasonable: More people probably need thumbnail images than they > need comments. Comments are most used on blogs, whereas thumbnails can > be used on blogs, e-commerce, photo hosting, social networking, > project management, et al. It's not to say that we don't need > "contrib.comments", just that I wouldn't want to lose easy_thumbnails. > > > On Sep 15, 11:32 pm, "David P. Novakovic" <davidnovako...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Actually, that really did sound negative. Sorry :) > > > > Is there a trac ticket open to address this issue? Generally it'd be > > better to get discussion happening over a ticket and if there are > > serious issues that need to be addressed then they can be discussed > > here. > > > > I know it'd be nice to get things like easy-thumbnails accepted into > > django.contrib , but the truth is that this probably falls outside of > > things that that should be in contrib. Contrib isn't really an easier > > way to get stuff into django, it still has to satisfy a bunch of > > conditions like the rest of the code in the core. > > > > The real question is not "can it be included?" but why is it a problem > > that this is a third party lib at the moment? Is there a strong case > > that it be better if it was part of django core or does it do its job > > just fine the way it is now? > > > > David > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, David P. Novakovic > > > > <davidnovako...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't want to sound negative, but answering your own question before > > > anyone else can doesn't change the answer ;) > > > > > D > > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Yo-Yo Ma <baxterstock...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> Is there any plans to incorporatehttp:// > github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails/ > > >> into django.contrib? I have seen so many apps/libraries come into and > > >> go out of existence (http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ThumbNailsfor > > >> instance mentions sorl-thumbnails which is no longer being developed). > > >> I just turned the key with easy-thumbnails and voila. It's like magic, > > >> but not. It's easy enough to see what's going on behind the scenes. > > > > >> This is something that, with the help of the core and other > > >> contributors, could be really great. It works for me as it it is, but > > >> it may not work for a more "enterprise" application that uses S3, etc. > > >> It might not be highly efficient (I wouldn't know). It might have bugs > > >> that I just haven't noticed yet. I'm mentioning all of this because I > > >> know somebody will say, "Why move it into Django if it's doing just > > >> fine as a separate project?". After experiencing the bliss I thought > > >> I'd drop a line here about it, and see what you guys thought. > > > > >> -- > > >> 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<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > >> For more options, visit this group athttp:// > groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- > 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<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > -- Brian O'Connor -- 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.
