On Monday, 1 June 2015 03:32:26 UTC+2, Rotund wrote: > > I actually think this is a great idea. In my mind it parallels Drupal's > "block" idea. (This is actually what I keep hoping DjangoCMS is.) > > That stated, it is more of a construct. I think a great idea is to make an > extension module. >
Thanks! And I definitely think this should be developed as a separate module. > I don't know how long you've been in this community, but Django is now > quite stable and people rely on their APIs. Your bold ideas really need to > be tested by fire before they go into the Django proper. There's been lots > of discussion about a year ago to remove/reduce a lot of the contrib. > > Being in Django is where things go to die. Once an API is released to the > public, it takes a fair amount of work to remove/change it. You don't even > want to know how long it took to get schema migrations into Django. South > had been the defacto way for quite a few years. That stated, Andrew had to > make some changes to South due to design decisions that were made earlier > in South. Before that, there was other projects like django-evolution > (which just got an update 2 months ago). > I've been in the community a long while, so I know how things usually work. My hope for this is that there would be a strong need in the community to solve these kinds of problems. This doesn't mean that the process will be any different, or take less time. > So, I followed the Drupal group for a while. The thing the Django > community really needs is a couple good opinionated groups of how to put > together a good Django site. Drupal has Lullabot (who have quite a few core > devs on staff). Django is not going to be the people telling people how to > use Django. You seem like a great person to start this for Django. Note > that you'll have to have a thick skin and create some pretty great sites in > your own right to prove out your ideas to others. You'll also need to get > your ideas out via things like blog posts, tutorials, and podcasts. > > I would like the Caktus, DjangoCMS, FeinCMS, etc people to do the same. > This would help people to see some different ideas on how to use and extend > Django. > This is a neat idea and I would really want to read those blog posts. Maybe that's the way to go. I don't see my set of ideas to be THAT opinionated. None of them force you to change your existing sites. I see them as tools, that someone that needs heavier javascript features will definitely need. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/d6499ef5-b0d3-4ffb-9deb-77148e9386a7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
