Re: Replace decimal prefix(kB) with binary prefix (KiB) for bytes

2015-01-12 Thread Aymeric Augustin
In that case I believe it's more important to be understandable by our target audience than to be technically correct. If we make the change we'll probably get bug reports pointing out KiB as a typo. I know that geeks love to feel smart by being more correct than the masses, so I expect this ch

Re: status of 1.8 release blockers

2015-01-12 Thread Tino de Bruijn
Congratulations! Looks like you've steadily moved it through. Tino On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Tim Graham wrote: > We did it -- all features are in or out for alpha. Please consider master > frozen for new features until we cut the stable/1.8.x branch later this > week. Feel free to commit

Re: status of 1.8 release blockers

2015-01-12 Thread Tim Graham
We did it -- all features are in or out for alpha. Please consider master frozen for new features until we cut the stable/1.8.x branch later this week. Feel free to commit code cleanups and/or bug fixes until then. On Friday, January 9, 2015 at 1:14:02 PM UTC-5, Tim Graham wrote: > > Here is the

Re: Replace decimal prefix(kB) with binary prefix (KiB) for bytes

2015-01-12 Thread Collin Anderson
I'd be fine changing MB -> MiB in just docs wherever needed, and then not using KB or MB at all because of their ambiguity. I've seen "KiB" and "MiB" around before, but I've never seen "Mebi" before today. On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 6:53:37 PM UTC-5, Markus Holtermann wrote: > > Hey folks,

Re: Replace decimal prefix(kB) with binary prefix (KiB) for bytes

2015-01-12 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
See also 19348 and 8733. https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19348 https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8733 My opinion hasn't really changed - my experience has been that Kibi and Mebi are prefixes that nobody outside standards organisations give a damn about. In the example you provide (FIL

Replace decimal prefix(kB) with binary prefix (KiB) for bytes

2015-01-12 Thread Markus Holtermann
Hey folks, I saw that the Django docs currently use file size units kB, MB, etc. that refer to a multiple of 1000 (1000, 100 bytes respectively -- https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#file-upload-max-memory-size ). But the numbers actually are to the power of 1024. To remedy inc

Re: simplifying the default template context_processors

2015-01-12 Thread Collin Anderson
Here's a PR for this change https://github.com/django/django/pull/3897 On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 4:58:53 AM UTC-5, Aymeric Augustin wrote: > > On 11 janv. 2015, at 09:43, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: > > > However, I'd still have some concerns about a project template that took > out all t