Arguing for convention over configuration

2005-09-02 Thread kmh
Hi there, Django rocks. Or should I say it swings? (Probably a tiresome quip already - sorry!). Thanks to all the developers for your excellent work, not only in creating a fine web development framework, but also in establishing the beginnings of a great community to support it. In playing a

Re: Django "add-ins": blog, discussion board, wiki, etc.

2005-09-02 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 9/1/05, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The man to talk to is Wilson Miner, [EMAIL PROTECTED], who's also the > guy who designed Django's admin and djangoproject.com. I assume source is included, and modification rights are granted?

Re: Django "add-ins": blog, discussion board, wiki, etc.

2005-09-02 Thread Simon
How would these be installed? i.e. would they come prepackaged in the default Django install, or would it be a download later as need requires? If it's the second case, then would it be worth looking into a install application eg - something like - django-plugin.py install plugin-name.tgz applic

Random Field idea

2005-09-02 Thread Brant Harris
I think it'd be duckey to have a FolderField that would work just like a ForeignKey except that when you looked at the field in the admin interface, it looked like a directory structure. So if I had a parent = FolderField("self") in a model, and looked at the model in the admin interface I could

Re: database_check / Ticket #12

2005-09-02 Thread Martin Maney
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:19:38PM -, Tim Keating wrote: > Arguably, making the canonical descriptor of your data structures the > database (which AFAIK is how Rails does it) has advantages over making > it the code and building the db from that. However, I don't foresee > django changing to t

Re: database_check / Ticket #12

2005-09-02 Thread Tim Keating
> Yes indeed. Like for example that it is in general NOT a single-step > process! Sometimes you *have* *to* make a partial change, futz with > things, then complete the change. The sane way to do that, IMO, is to > manipulate the database using a language designed for database > manipulation (e

Trac Timeline change?

2005-09-02 Thread Boffbowsh
Any chance of having ticket summaries added to the Timeline somehow? At the moment, all there is is "component changed, component changed, component changed." For what ticket? Would be nice to see at a glance what ticket has been modified