Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Thejaswi Puthraya
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:18:11 PM UTC+5:30, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > Hi folks -- > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. [snipped] > Any objections? > As the student (back then) who worked on

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Russell Keith-Magee > wrote: >> However, I'd argue against using /dev/null as a disposal mechanism. I don't >> think the code should ever completely disappear. If someone offers to take >> over, that's gre

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Val Neekman
Yep. +1 Val Sent from my mobile device. On 2013-03-07, at 11:48 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > Hi folks -- > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. > > My rationale is this: if you don't really care much a

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Thiago Avelino
+1 Cheers, Thiago Avelino On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote: > Yes. Aymeric, you covered every point I wanted to make. > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the Swype software keyboard. > --Richard Bronosky > On Mar 7, 2013 12:00 PM, "Aymeric Augustin" < > aymeric.au

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Bronosky
Django should have a boneyard. Here is the homebrew boneyard https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the Swype software keyboard. --Richard Bronosky On Mar 7, 2013 7:39 PM, "Jacob Kaplan-Moss" wrote: > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Russell Keith-Magee

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Bronosky
Yes. Aymeric, you covered every point I wanted to make. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 using the Swype software keyboard. --Richard Bronosky On Mar 7, 2013 12:00 PM, "Aymeric Augustin" < aymeric.augus...@polytechnique.org> wrote: > On 7 mars 2013, at 17:48, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > > This on

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-08 Thread shacker
Sorry, but -1 from me. Given the core premise that the job of a web application framework is to find the common features that many websites need to implement and make them easy to achieve, commenting definitely fits into this category. I run two sites that use Django comments heavily. Django c

RE: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Babatunde Akinyanmi
+1 Sent from my Windows Phone From: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Sent: 3/7/2013 5:48 PM To: django-developers Subject: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments Hi folks -- This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases.

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > However, I'd argue against using /dev/null as a disposal mechanism. I don't > think the code should ever completely disappear. If someone offers to take > over, that's great; but just because nobody volunteers to maintain the > project,

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Alex Gaynor
It's not like /dev/null'ing it erases it from the annals of history. I don't see what the point of creating an un-maintained repo is, if someone decides they want to maintain it at some later point it's pretty trivial to resurrect from VCS history. Alex On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Ma

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Manfre
On Thursday, March 7, 2013 1:05:53 PM UTC-5, Alex Ogier wrote: > > I think it can't just disappear. Even if you can't find a maintainer, core > should put at least a little effort to make sure that an API compatible > third-party application exists that is compatible at least through version >

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > Hi folks -- > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. > > My rationale is this: if you don't really care much about how comments > work but just want som

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Luke Granger-Brown wrote: > I've only tried using django.contrib.comments once, and it ended up not > being what I needed anyway, so I had to write my own comments module (Disqus > was out of the question) i had exactly the same experience. -- Javier -- You r

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Alex Ogier
I think it can't just disappear. Even if you can't find a maintainer, core should put at least a little effort to make sure that an API compatible third-party application exists that is compatible at least through version 1.8 when "import django.contrib.comments" stops working (basically, do the wo

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Luke Granger-Brown
+1 from me too - I've only tried using django.contrib.comments once, and it ended up not being what I needed anyway, so I had to write my own comments module (Disqus was out of the question) On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Carlos Aguilar wrote: > I think i can maintain comments if you want the t

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Alex Gaynor
Jumpin' on the +1 train. Choo, choo! Alex On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > > Hi folks -- > > > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of r

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Carlos Aguilar
I think i can maintain comments if you want the time you need. I only use few zinnia blogs, then, is not really important to me, but I suppose it is important for many others developers. Best Regards On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Aymeric Augustin < aymeric.augus...@polytechnique.org> wrote:

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Donald Stufft
On Mar 7, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > Hi folks -- > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. > > My rationale is this: if you don't really care much about how comments > work but just want some

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Aymeric Augustin
On 7 mars 2013, at 17:48, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. +1 > My rationale is this: if you don't really care much about how comments > work but just want something easy, then D

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Mikhail Korobov
A good idea, +1. четверг, 7 марта 2013 г., 22:48:11 UTC+6 пользователь Jacob Kaplan-Moss написал: > > Hi folks -- > > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. > > My rationale is this: if you don't really care mu

Re: Proposal: deprecate and remove django.contrib.comments

2013-03-07 Thread Carl Meyer
On 03/07/2013 09:48 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > This one's simple: I'd like to deprecate `django.contrib.comments`, > scheduling it to be removed in a couple of releases. > > My rationale is this: if you don't really care much about how comments > work but just want something easy, then Disqus