Re: Proposal: Revised form rendering

2010-07-11 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
I agree with Eric and my experiences back it up. Most of the people who want to custom form widgets are the ones who are unprepared to dig into Django/Python code. The easier we can make creating/extending form widgets the better. This looks like what I'll be sprinting on at DjangoCon. :) Danny

Re: Proposal: Revised form rendering

2010-07-12 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
ontrols are out of the hands of the designer and in the hands of the developer. Until I get around to refactoring django-uni-form, Daniel Greenfeld pydanny.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To pos

Re: Digest for django-developers@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 1 Topic

2012-01-13 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
atomic. I leave all the magic stuff to smart people. ;) -- 'Knowledge is Power' Daniel Greenfeld http://pydanny.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to djang

Feature request: read-only admin view

2012-01-28 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
hed by django.contrib.admin. I think this is is the better, easier way to go because it keeps Django's core scope smaller. Which makes advancement of the framework easier for the hard-working people who contribute to it. -- 'Knowledge is Power' Daniel Greenfeld http://pydanny.bl

Re: Proposal: upgrading the choices machinery for Django

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:41:23 AM UTC-7, Adrian Holovaty wrote: > 2012/4/3 Ɓukasz Langa : > > Explicit choice values:: > > > > GENDER_MALE = 0 > > GENDER_FEMALE = 1 > > GENDER_NOT_SPECIFIED = 2 > > > > GENDER_CHOICES = ( > > (GENDER_MALE, _('male')), > > (GENDER_FEMALE, _('femal

Re: Digest for django-developers@googlegroups.com - 3 Messages in 2 Topics

2012-06-23 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
s stuck on Django 1.3, which has some security implications. 2. django-nonrel is unsupported. It switched maintainers and the current maintainer is not working on it. 3. [pydanny opinion warning] django-nonrel wasn't adopted in Django core because it lacked adequate documentation and tests. 4. [pyd

Re: Django-nonrel patches

2012-06-26 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
On Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:31:41 PM UTC+8, Cezar Jenkins wrote: > > I'm only lightly involved in the project, but there is some misinformation > going around about it. > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Daniel Greenfeld > wrote: > >> >> >> We eva

Re: The Django packages rss is broken

2012-07-19 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
When we changed over to Heroku for hosting and went with the 'www' prefix, somehow the redirects to the new location have been failing. I submitted the changed url to https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ but it hasn't picked up the change. I'll try again. On Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:41:28

Re: end of "coming soon" in the tutorial? - tutorial 5 feedback needed!

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
I'll toss in our own djangopackages.com as well as a resource. :-) On Monday, September 17, 2012 10:00:39 PM UTC+2, AJHMvanRatingen wrote: > > I'm not an expert in packaging, I've released a few apps, but my novice > eyes caught some things: > * Bullet 6 under "Packaging your app" mentions the ma

Re: Why doesn't DjangoProject.com downloads provide a Windows installer like web2py does?

2012-12-23 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
is to make the Python installation story on Windows easier. It's not the fun or easy answer, and maybe we need to convince Microsoft to throw money and resources at the problem. Since Python and Django supported on Azure, this may be the perfect time to make such a request. -- 'Knowledge

Re: make the source code of the django tutorial available ?

2013-01-16 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
mprovement besides an official working implementation of the app. Off the top of my head here are a couple of items: 1. The new tutorial intros are nice but missing some pieces. I'll document this in tickets soon. 2. Page 2 of the tutorial is too long. People start copy/pasting very early, an

Re: deprecation of AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE

2013-03-03 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
I agree that email-as-username should be a built-in User abstract model (or something) in Django. It's an incredibly common use case and for once I think Django could use some additional functionality. +1 to email as username model in core. Danny On Sunday, March 3, 2013 10:21:55 AM UTC-8, Flo

Ticket #25236: Remove ifequal from the template language

2015-08-06 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
No modern project uses ifequal. No one recommends it. I argue it is taking up valuable bytes in the project. Let's remove it. Reference https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25236 In there you'll see Tim Graham mentions that older Django projects may push back on it, and suggests that a good me

Re: four NoSQL backends you want? :)

2010-10-01 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
step towards NoSQL > in Django. NoSQL != cloud, so I changed the name, slug, and description for http://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/cloud/ It is now: http://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/nosql/ Perhaps it should even be nosql-backends? Daniel Greenfeld -- You received this message because

Django version classifiers in PyPI for packages

2010-11-06 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
of use to them or if it needs to be updated to the latest code base. Thanks! -- 'Knowledge is Power' Daniel Greenfeld http://pydanny.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group

Re: [GSoC] Revised form rendering

2011-04-03 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
y done his homework and put a lot of thought into this critical part of Django. I'm not a core developer my vote doesn't count, but I'm giving it anyway. +1 from me. Daniel Greenfeld pyda...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Timezone-aware storage of DateTime

2011-06-05 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Which means the task of moving data from one database to another, or applying non-Django tools to the data suddenly has become much more complicated - to the point that non-Django people looking at the database will rightly wonder why the framework is obfuscating data. Daniel Greenfeld

Re: Django Docs for Forms - Alternative Pattern from Advanced Django Forms Usage talk?

2011-10-23 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
One of the things that I think would be wonderful is to see this and other issues such as server specific settings actually described in a Django best practices document. And not as part of the wiki. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developer

Re: Deprecate admindocs?

2013-07-25 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Can we assume it will be separated out? While none of us on the list use admindocs or care, a decent number of beginners seem to like to use it. --Daniel Greenfeld On Thursday, July 25, 2013 7:21:08 PM UTC+2, Julien Phalip wrote: > > On Jul 25, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Aymeric Augustin <

Re: Proposal: Implement CORS & OAuth/OAuth2

2013-07-29 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
7;ve had this request several times for security-related packages, database connectors, and other things. We're not sure about the API yet, but there you go. -- 'Knowledge is Power' Daniel Greenfeld Principal at Cartwheel Web; co-author of Two Scoops of Django; Maintainer of Djang

Re: Proposal: A diagram showing Class Based View inheritance and mixins.

2013-08-19 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Seth, I like it a lot. Is there any chance you can provide a focused version per Class-Based View? Daniel Greenfeld On Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:03:59 PM UTC+2, Seth Moon wrote: > > I believe it would be beneficial to the Django developers and users if the > documentation included

Re: Django Tutorials

2013-10-28 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Javair, Not to put a fine point on it, but did you actually bother to look at djangobook.com? It says: "A warning about this edition" on the front page and then goes into asking that users not work on it. Is this why you don't want to work on it? Daniel Greenfeld On Monday, O

Re: GSOC 2014 Project Proposal

2014-02-22 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
t happen, just as it would be nice to see djangobook.com taken off the wikipedia page until it does get updated. In the meantime, unless no core developer objects, after getting yet another emailed question about mod_apache deployment (thanks to http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter12.html)

Re: GSOC 2014 Project Proposal

2014-02-24 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
27;ll find some attempts). Fourth, because of the third issue, we risk complaints of plagiarism. The content already exists, it's just a matter of finding it. GSOC funding for code examples that already exist? No. No. No. Bad idea! Daniel Greenfeld On Monday, February 24, 2014 2:28:41 AM UTC-

Re: GSOC 2014 Project Proposal

2014-02-25 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
2013. I can only guess that djangobook.com will be updated as well. I apologize for not considering the ownership issues in my first email in this discussion. Daniel Greenfeld On Monday, February 24, 2014 8:39:41 AM UTC-8, Daniel Greenfeld wrote: > > After due consideration, I think up

Re: Pull django-registration into contrib?

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
ocumentation of django.contrib.auth. --Daniel Greenfeld On Friday, August 1, 2014 9:17:30 AM UTC-7, Collin Anderson wrote: > > It seems to me, in any case, the first step is to get django-registration > actively maintained again. James Bennett is welcoming proposals of people > to take over

Re: Requiring GitHub login for actions on Trac

2014-08-10 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 2:37:01 AM UTC-7, Aymeric Augustin wrote: Using GitHub for auth a giant +1 from me. For me, this ranks up with the SVN to Github move as a: "Why hasn't this been done already?" Daniel Greenfeld co-author Two Scoops of Django -- You received this

Re: Proposal new Django Admin css style

2014-08-17 Thread Daniel Greenfeld
Thanks for the mention, but I haven't had time to work or maintain that for months. I'm not sure how it works with the upcoming Django 1.7. Also, for the sake of simplicity, the default skin for it is bootstrap 3. Any CSS in there is per skin, and probably doesn't belong in this discussion. On