Re: Django 1.5.1 released

2013-04-07 Thread Josh Cartmell
Thanks for the extra details Jacob. I had a bit of time and thought it was an interesting challenge so I created a Google Script based twitter bot that tweets the title and links of everything posted to the Django Announce Google group. There may be bugs but so far it's working, you can check it

Re: Django 1.5.1 released

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > In short, no - Twitter isn't a particularly reliable source for updates. > Someone in the core team will usually tweet about the release, but since > it's hard to share logins to a single Twitter account, and the person who > owns Djang

Re: Django 1.5.1 released

2013-04-03 Thread Josh Cartmell
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation and the pointers to the best sources of information. I never realized the Django announce mailing list existed, it will serve my purposes perfectly as I'm sure it's intended to! Regards, Josh On Apr 2, 9:02 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Hi Josh, >

Re: Django 1.5.1 released

2013-04-02 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
Hi Josh, In short, no - Twitter isn't a particularly reliable source for updates. Someone in the core team will usually tweet about the release, but since it's hard to share logins to a single Twitter account, and the person who owns Django's twitter account won't always be involved in formally cu

Re: Django 1.5.1 released

2013-04-02 Thread Josh Cartmell
Thanks for the release! Kind of random question, but this seems like the best place to ask it. I used to use Twitter mobile notifications to keep up with Django releases, but I've noticed that the last three releases (since 1.4.4) have not been announced on Django's Twitter. Is this just an over

[ANN] Django 1.5.1 released

2013-03-28 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Hi folks -- We've just released Django 1.5.1, a bug fix release that cleans up a couple issues with last month's 1.5 release. The biggest fix is for a memory leak introduced in Django 1.5. Under certain circumstances, repeated iteration over querysets could leak memory - sometimes quite a bit of