Re: Regressions tests: a suggestion

2006-06-18 Thread Michael Radziej
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > What I would like to propose is that we create a tests/regression/ > subdirectory for these slightly more mind-numbing but important tests. > Same sub-directory structure, etc, as the the modeltests/ directory, but > not in any way intended to be examples of good model

Re: One Grateful New Djangotist Agrees

2006-06-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Jun-06, at 5:01 PM, jorjun wrote: > I spent a great deal of time trying to get to grips with a competing > framework but my progress was painfully slow which one? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://avsap.org.in --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Yo

Regressions tests: a suggestion

2006-06-18 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
There are a couple of problem I am looking at where it will be nice to put in some regression tests just to ensure they don't reoccur. However, putting them in tests/modeltests/* doesn't seem like the right place, because we are simultaneously using that directory as a source for examples. This tr

Development Growing Pains: Patch Acceptance

2006-06-18 Thread Landon Fuller
What am I going to do is write an outsider's observation on one facet of the project's development process: patch acceptance and the number of committers. To qualify my "outsider" status: I'm a software engineer, but I've never written a webapp. I spent the past couple weeks researching web

Re: Proposal for documentation reform

2006-06-18 Thread Simon
I have to agree that the documentation for Django is lite years ahead of other frameworks I've looked at (no names! :-), but improvement is always a worthy goal. It is really fantastic to see other people writing up tutorials and documentation - it shows that people are really getting stuck in to

Re: Proposal for documentation reform

2006-06-18 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
[OK, this is longer than I intended. Sorry 'bout that. :-( Short version: yes, I agree. Focus on the organisation, too; we already have a lot of content; people apparently don't read the docs anyway; how we can kickstart this a bit; and some clues from other projects I've help on and hung around.

One Grateful New Djangotist Agrees

2006-06-18 Thread jorjun
I spent a great deal of time trying to get to grips with a competing framework but my progress was painfully slow. Now that i have switched to Django, I have been delighted with the productivity boost. The official documentation helped me enormously. As for improvements in Django documentation, m

Re: Proposal for documentation reform

2006-06-18 Thread Erik Stein
Hello -- I'm rather new to django so please forgive my ignorance. It's only some weeks that i work with django but i'm as productive as it could be thanks to this very well-thought and well-programmed framework. Mainly i am missing two aspects in the otherwise really great and useful doc