Re: Upcoming sprint to update Django's tutorial

2012-07-17 Thread Marijonas Petrauskas
+1! Few other thoughts - It would also be nice to have best practices regarding version control system file layout (eg. local settings pattern). Besides, I think that tutorial (and overall Django) recommendation to use absolute paths for project-relative locations (templates, static dirs) in setti

Re: Upcoming sprint to update Django's tutorial

2012-07-17 Thread Luke Granger-Brown
I think it would be good to make a new documentation page suggesting various best practices - speaking from my point of view, it was hard for me to figure out what I *should* be doing, because everyone was doing it differently and each method had their own pros and cons. I ended up using a mishmash

Re: Upcoming sprint to update Django's tutorial

2012-07-17 Thread Alex Ogier
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > I was wondering if people would be opposed to an opinionated tutorial? > For example: you should use virtualenv and pip, south, should handle > requirements this way, should prefer factories over fixtures, should > have this project director

Re: Upcoming sprint to update Django's tutorial

2012-07-17 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > I was wondering if people would be opposed to an opinionated tutorial? > For example: you should use virtualenv and pip, south, should handle > requirements this way, should prefer factories over fixtures, should > have this project director

Re: Upcoming sprint to update Django's tutorial

2012-07-17 Thread Jeremy Dunck
Thanks for the pointers to existing tickets. I was wondering if people would be opposed to an opinionated tutorial? For example: you should use virtualenv and pip, south, should handle requirements this way, should prefer factories over fixtures, should have this project directory layout, etc. I