Re: GSoC Proposal: Auto-generation of Models from Data

2008-03-28 Thread Sage La Torra
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Colin -- > > Neat ideas! > > My main point of feedback is that you're dealing with a *HUGE* problem > -- dabbledb represents literally years of work, and trying to > reproduce that in a single summer is seri

Re: Porting Django to Python 3.0 as a GSoC project

2008-03-28 Thread Sage La Torra
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Michael Radziej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > [ugly stories about other source transformer tools and > > how they failed deleted] > Actually, the translator was successful. I'm not talking about any specific project, I'm mentioning my opinion of mac

Re: Porting Django to Python 3.0 as a GSoC project

2008-03-27 Thread Sage La Torra
I'll throw in my 2 cents too: I think machine based translation is iffy at best. I'm not the most up-to-date on py3k, but I have experience with other such projects (I wrote a Perl 5 to Perl 6 translator for Summer of Code 2006). This is just my opinion, but I think it would be best for Django (a

Re: Porting Django to Python 3.0 as a GSoC project

2008-03-26 Thread Sage La Torra
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > A few days ago, Martin Löwis mentioned here and on the python-3000 list that > he had started porting Django to Python-3000 > > (http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thr

Re: [GSoC Proposal] PAM Auth backend for Django

2008-03-26 Thread Sage La Torra
Thanks for the proposal! For what it's worth, I'm not a Django mentor, but I am a two-time Summer of Coder. I just wanted to know if you had a timeline in mind? One of the harder parts of Summer of Code is the 'Summer' part, so it can pay off to have a proposed timeline. It also gives your mentor