Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread shacker
Since you're at Berkeley, stop by the Graduate School of Journalism some time to see the Django sites we run and meet the devs (look me up). Would also be interested in campus Django meetings (any alternative to the relentless Drupal push on campus :). ./s -- You received this message because

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Paul McMillan wrote: > I'm Paul, one of the core devs for Django. I'm curious which class > you're enrolled in and what your requirements are. I'm always excited > to see new people looking to get involved in the project, and I happen > to be VERY local. Hi Paul &

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Paul McMillan
Hi Jamin, I'm Paul, one of the core devs for Django. I'm curious which class you're enrolled in and what your requirements are. I'm always excited to see new people looking to get involved in the project, and I happen to be VERY local. If you wanted to meet up some evening in one of the libraries

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Paul McMillan
Alec, I'm glad you're excited about this issue, but let's keep discussion of the installation issue on the other thread (and/or the ticket tracker). It would be best if we didn't go tasking new volunteers with big projects the community hasn't agreed on. The ticket tracker, and the issues there,

Re: prefetch_related - new feature suggestion

2011-09-27 Thread Johannes Dollinger
Am 27.09.2011 um 05:18 schrieb Luke Plant: > On 27/09/11 03:23, Alex Gaynor wrote: > >> I'm not a fan of this, for a few reasons, firstly: because it feels >> wrong for a QuerySet to execute multiple queries. This isn't a deal >> breaker, just something that struck my conceptually initially. S

[NoSQL] Sub-object queries / refactoring JOIN syntax into model fields

2011-09-27 Thread Jonas H.
Hallöchen, some non-relational databases (e.g. MongoDB) have support for arbitrarily nested objects. To make queries that "reach" into these sub-objects, the Django-nonrel developers find it appealing to use JOIN syntax. For instance, if you had this person in your database {'name': 'Bob',

Re: prefetch_related - new feature suggestion

2011-09-27 Thread Peter
I'd just like to chime in to say this should definitely be part of core - it's a common requirement, and whilst it could be a third party app, it certainly feels much more at home in core. On Sep 27, 1:13 pm, Luke Plant wrote: > For me, QuerySet is at a level of abstraction where I don't think it

Re: prefetch_related - new feature suggestion

2011-09-27 Thread Luke Plant
Hi Alex, Just replying to your other objections, now I've had some time to think about them: On 27/09/11 03:23, Alex Gaynor wrote: > I'm not a fan of this, for a few reasons, firstly: because it feels > wrong for a QuerySet to execute multiple queries. This isn't a deal > breaker, just somethin

Re: prefetch_related - new feature suggestion

2011-09-27 Thread koenb
On 27 sep, 05:18, Luke Plant wrote: > On 27/09/11 03:23, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > Would you like to share your solution? I found it pretty difficult to > come up with anything that: > > 1) could be done on a per-query basis and > 2) didn't require changes to the code that would use the QuerySet >