Re: [GSoc 2012]: Want to work on keeping django code uptodate with the best practices

2012-03-10 Thread Karthik Abinav
Hi, Thanks a lot for the hints and suggestions .I shall soon come back with a detailed groundwork on the various areas that django could make use of its own feature set. On 10 March 2012 14:04, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On 10/03/2012, at 3:48 PM, Karthik Abinav wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I

Case-insensitive collations and ModelMultipleChoiceField?

2012-03-10 Thread David Lindquist
I may have found a bug in Django but wanted to run it by the core developers before I filed a ticket. It concerns validation of a ModelMultipleChoiceField when using a case-insensitive database collation (in our case, a MySQL database with collation set to 'utf8_general_ci'). First some background

Re: authentication by email

2012-03-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 10/03/2012, at 1:52 AM, Joe & Anne Tennies wrote: > While, I generally agree with the current approach, especially this close to > release. I'm going to play devil's advocate for a bit. > > Schema migrations have been talked about for quite a while. There are at > least 3 external implement

Re: [GSoc 2012]: Want to work on keeping django code uptodate with the best practices

2012-03-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 10/03/2012, at 3:48 PM, Karthik Abinav wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking through the google summer of code 2012 wiki page and found > the "Best practices updates" problem interesting and would like to work > towards it. It would be really nice, if someone could explain in more detail > as t

Re: Just a crazy idea..

2012-03-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 10/03/2012, at 1:13 PM, h3 wrote: > And this idea is just: a patch server. > > Imagine a site where developers can browse, upload, rate and comment > patches. Something like django snippets, but instead of snippets, it's > patches for django. > > A developer can upload a patch (linked or not