Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-30 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On Mar 27, 2:46 pm, "Jacob Kaplan-Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Ben Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >  What's the status on both of them? Do they still need to be finished? > > They are both defunct. > > >  Do you think they would be good GSoC projects

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-30 Thread Brian Armstrong
Thanks for that info :) That looks very interesting. I wonder if combining all three notions into one project is going to fit within the time constraints of one summer, especially when you include things like getting MtM fields working and testing. I think I'm going to definitely run with it, t

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-28 Thread mrts
Though search is of primary importance, object history is obviously very important as well -- both auditing (Audit Log pattern) and rolling back/comparing changes (Temporal Object pattern) are very common use cases (see Martin Fowler's treatment of these and some other patterns for things that cha

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-28 Thread Brian Armstrong
Interesting. I wasn't sure if it'd be valid since I believe in 2006 Search was a GSoC idea. I guess I assumed it wasn't going to be considered since it has been 2 years since and it's not on the list any more, but I did realize of course it doesn't exist. :D I think I will likely take your repl

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-28 Thread mrts
In my humble opinion a search abrastraction app bundled in django.contrib is a really high priority and has suitable scope for a SoC project. Qouting James http://www.djangosnippets.org/about/faq/: "Why isn't there a search system? Because no-one's yet written a good generic search system for Dja

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Brian Armstrong
Ben, I'd like to hijack, I hope you don't mind I'm also trying to get a good GSoC project to submit. If I understand right, even though a lot of commonly-used modules like registration and search have third-party apps out there, a few of them might still be fair game to try to implement in Djang

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Firshman
On 27 Mar 2008, at 19:46, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > Still, the last > 20% is enough work that a project making AuditTrail into a bonafide > extension might be good. Sorry, skipped over your last sentence before I sent the last message! I will investigate AuditTrail some more... Ben --~--~--

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Firshman
On 27 Mar 2008, at 19:46, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > > Starting from those branches? No. The state-of-the-art has moved on, > and we've gotten wiser about how we maintain open projects. Search, > for example, has a couple of third-party apps out there; working on > any of 'em would make a good pr

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Vsevolod Solovyov
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you think they would be good GSoC projects? > Starting from those branches? No. The state-of-the-art has moved on, > and we've gotten wiser about how we maintain open projects. Search, > for example, has a c

Re: TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Ben Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the status on both of them? Do they still need to be finished? They are both defunct. > Do you think they would be good GSoC projects? Starting from those branches? No. The state-of-the-art has moved on, and we'

TextIndexingAbstractionLayer and FullHistory branches for GSoC

2008-03-27 Thread Ben Firshman
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/TextIndexingAbstractionLayer http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/FullHistory I see both were on the GSoC list for last year, but neither have been touched in a year. On this list, the last mentions of both branches were a while back too, and nothing conclusiv