Re: High Level Discussion about the Future of Django

2010-04-18 Thread Mike Scott
I agree almost whole-heartedly with the perception that David portrays. His feelings almost mirror mine. Albeit I haven't submitted contributions to the django development process I've been involved with a number of issues and come away with similar feelings viewing the process. I love what those

An opportunity for Django community

2010-06-23 Thread Mike Scott
I've watched the video of the keynote speech, and the following struck me as an "opportunity for django". Ala the speech given. http://www.google.com/buzz/ianbicking/BRWDjsMCGWQ/I-like-the-original-proposal-move-PyPI-stuff-into#127681396096 Thoughts? -- You received this message because y

Re: Improving the truncatewords filter (and a +1 vote for filters with multiple arguments)

2008-06-04 Thread Mike Scott
Marty: If you read his post you'll see he is infact getting a 500 Server error, and not a spam filter error. 500 Server errors happen when something goes wrong, not when spam is filtered. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Marty Alchin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM,

Re: Improving the truncatewords filter (and a +1 vote for filters with multiple arguments)

2008-06-05 Thread Mike Scott
Ahh my greatest apologies - not expected behaviour, nor compliant behavour. Teach me for skim reading. On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Scott wrote: > >> Marty: >> >> If you read his post you'll see he is infact

Re: Django releases

2008-06-10 Thread Mike Scott
> > I'd trade your controversial part for an alternative: merge mewforms-admin > back to trunk now. It's been as 'usable' as old admin for months. Sure, > it's got a couple of dozen 'blocking' bugs in the tracker but none of them > are all that serious. Current admin, as you note, also has some

Re: Ordered ManyToMany

2008-06-26 Thread Mike Scott
Could this not be further discussed? I understand the need to be toolkit agnostic, but could we not take a similar approach as the Ext js framework, where by you can use one of many existing frameworks as your base. Then the django community can build connectors as demanded. I understand there a

Re: Spam detection

2008-06-26 Thread Mike Scott
Jacob, I think its the fact that we see "internal server error" and just miss the message which is very nicely hidden after it. Alot of django developers know what a 500 means, but generally don't expect to see it for a spam block. Maybe the page after the block submission needs to be changed.

Re: MySQL BINARY WHERE Clauses

2008-07-21 Thread Mike Scott
David, We know you know the difference, but you should also know how much we love detail. More detail is also needed here. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:29 PM, David Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to seem harsh Karen, but I understand the differences in the > user lists. This is

Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-19 Thread Mike Scott
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Simon Willison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Aug 19, 1:39 am, "Tom Tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (And you know, I still think we'd be better off with > > "django-YES-THIS-ONE" and "django-NO-THE-OTHER-ONE". Or perhaps a tad > > more seriously, somethin

Re: DjangoCon meetup Friday Sept 5

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Scott
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Jonathan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > TWID guys? I'd be happy to combine groups. I just don't know who > that is. > "This week in django" crew - http://www.thisweekindjango.com/ only the premier podcast resource for django-aholics. Get in touch with one

Re: DjangoCon meetup Friday Sept 5

2008-08-21 Thread Mike Scott
err, link doesn't seem to work with www for me, so try: http://thisweekindjango.com/ On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Mike Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Jonathan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> TWID

Re: ANNOUNCE: Django 1.0 released

2008-09-03 Thread Mike Scott
Congratulations!! Was wondering if you could get a hold of adrian and get him to update the python packages stuff to the latest version? Otherwise looking good! :) On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:07 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > The Django team is pleased to announce the release of

Announcements regarding djangocon video's availability

2008-09-21 Thread Mike Scott
Hi Guys, I wasn't sure where/who to get in touch with regarding this but I was hoping that on both the djangocon and django blog websites announcements could be made to the effect of announcing the availability of the djangocon videos from google now on youtube. I think it would be great to let ev

Re: Django model version control

2008-10-01 Thread Mike Scott
Please move this conversation to django-users. Django-developers is for the discussion pertaining to the maintenance and development of the django framework itself. On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Erik Allik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nevermind the previous e-mail. > > On 01.10.2008, at 17:10

Re: auto_now_add and auto_now

2008-10-13 Thread Mike Scott
Thierry, Firstly django-developers is not the place for this discussion. Secondly this question has been asked, and solved many times. If you search through the django-users archives I'm sure you'll find plenty of solutions. There are solutions out and about in the blogosphere too. Cheers, Mik

Re: Django documentation index redesigned

2008-11-17 Thread Mike Scott
+1! Just one suggestion - if the final "bateries included" could be split into contrib apps, and core library that'd be nicer. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After months of being frustrated (and hearing other people being > frustrated) with our n

Re: RequestContext rarely used (branched from Feature reviews for 1.1)

2008-11-17 Thread Mike Scott
For all three of our projects in django, we've gone through and used our own exended version of render_to_response, which uses RequestContext by default. Its such a blessing. On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:42 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Yuri Baburo

Re: Dropping Python 2.3 compatibility for Django 1.1

2008-11-26 Thread Mike Scott
I'm +1 for the reasons of lack of upstream support. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42 PM, mrts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 26, 3:20 am, Julien Phalip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 26, 11:43 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 a

Re: Visual recognition of Django website

2007-09-18 Thread Mike Scott
I second Todds suggestion. I'm also just +0 on the whole affair. While it would be nice I think it has far surpassed the effort needed. On 9/19/07, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 00:29 +, Johann C. Rocholl wrote: > > On Sep 17, 10:17 am, "Justin Lilly" <[E

Re: Missing patch files on code.djangoproject.com

2007-09-18 Thread Mike Scott
Also Jacob, on the documentation the link ot the contenttypes docs have gone missing. As well as a few other documentation files that don't seem to be on the index link. Is this intentional? On 9/19/07, Todd O'Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 15:51 -0500, Jacob Kaplan-

Re: Django 100% threadsafe with DB?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Scott
Istvan, It should be threadsafe - the way web applications and web loads work mean that lots of simultaneous connection will mean that it pretty much becomes a threaded application, and for that reason I think more research should be done into this sort of operation? On 9/26/07, Istvan Albert <[E

Re: Non-Western person names

2007-09-28 Thread Mike Scott
This is something that has been a gripe of mine in a current project, where by originally we had organisations as users, rather than users themselves. I think what should happen is the django user class should have a "displayname" field, for which defaulted to the username if none was provided, if

Re: Adding a hook for pre-runtime setup (ticket #5685)

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Scott
Can I throw a hat in the ring and suggest a post-send-request hook? I have an existing script in PHP which used shutdown_functions() and was looking for ways to do this in python. Certain use cases for this arise. (Though could be easily solved by sending to a queue server like django-queue). If

Re: Adding a hook for pre-runtime setup (ticket #5685)

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Scott
Ah, Sorry all. Knew I missed it. Thanks Ben. I might go about documenting all this sometime then. We really need to improve those docs :) On 10/9/07, Benjamin Slavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 10/8/07, Mike Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I throw a

Re: Suggestion: DEPs - Django Enhancement Proposals

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Scott
+1 from me, this also a document that developers can look at and plan around very succinctly. On Dec 1, 2007 3:02 PM, Simon Willison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's an idea that's been kicking around in the back of my head for > far too long: Django Enhancement Proposals, or DEPs. At the mo

DB API - the limiting syntax, is it magic?

2007-11-30 Thread Mike Scott
nteresting development for a python developer to come into Django for the first time and discover this. Regards, Mike Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this

Re: DB API - the limiting syntax, is it magic?

2007-12-02 Thread Mike Scott
James, I'm think what I'm getting at more is not the fact that its "magical", maybe that is the wrong choice of word. But my opinion is more of the fact that it doesn't conform to the rest of the django database commands. I do think you put it aptly in asking do we want to be more SQL-style or Pyt

Better Support for static file serving via django

2007-12-11 Thread Mike Scott
ompressing and obfusicating it. Is this an approach the bulk of the Django community are interested in taking or is it something that we should leave to the things that do it best, ie: Apache and the like. Regards, Mike Scott --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received th

Re: Django weekly updates?

2007-12-15 Thread Mike Scott
http://groups.google.com/group/django-newsroom I just created this group, If Rob, Michael could ping me when they're joined and I'll give them higher permissions. Lets see what the newsroom can do! On Dec 16, 2007 1:53 AM, Richard D. Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007 11:48 AM,

Re: Trying to add a ticket on documentation

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Scott
If Adrian or one of the others with access could update the new ticket page, and add a link to register that would make these issues disappear. Right now people just get confused and shy away more than they ask. On Jan 10, 2008 1:54 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008

Re: : default settings for unit tests

2008-02-13 Thread Mike Scott
Further to this I'd like to point out that SQL lite is a very limited database in respect to the other offerings. Encouraging such a practice, in my opinion, is a really bad idea. Just my 2c. Mike On Feb 13, 2008 3:55 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008 1:5

Re: Unfair ticket management

2008-03-31 Thread Mike Scott
I'm not a fan of this discussion, I understand what you're saying, and the simple importerror test should suffice, otherwise its going to get to a point where we're going to have to keep a list of python libraries that can't be used for app names. Its not going to work like that. As far as I'm con

Re: mod_python issue

2008-04-13 Thread Mike Scott
This mailing list is for the development of django itself. Your issue is with mod_python and is probably better answered at http://mailman.modpython.org/mailman/listinfo/mod_python It has nothing to do with django itself. If you have any issues with django, then the first port of call (and oft

Re: Queryset-refactor branch has been merged into trunk

2008-04-26 Thread Mike Scott
Congratulations Malcolm, You very much deserve a big pat on the back for the entirety of the work you have done. We've been testing on 3 of our websites the QS-RF branch, with little to no issues, and lots of benefits. Regards, Mike Scott On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Russell Keith-

Re: QSRF Related

2008-04-29 Thread Mike Scott
check these things BEFORE you do a svn update, rather than after. Regards, Mike Scott On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:25 PM, David Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been extremely busy over the last few weeks, and have rarely had > the chance to check the mailing list. I

Re: Multiple database support

2008-05-23 Thread Mike Scott
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Simon Willison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Replication - being able to send all of my writes to one master > machine but spread all of my reads over several slave machines. > Thankfully Ivan Sagalaev's confusingly named mysql_cluster covers this > problem neatl