djangoplugables.com: the blog

Ideas and Plans, Post-DjangoCon

Bryan Veloso — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:04:45 -0700

Just an update from the trenches about what’s going to be happening here soon!

Well the Django Plugables team (“team” being, just me) is back from Silicon Valley after an awesome DjangoCon and I wanted to just provide a little update of what’s going on around here, considering my last post was around the time that queryset refactor hit.

Lots of changes are going to hit the site soon, including enhancements that have been requested like comments, tagging, voting, etc. I’m working on support for Git repositories, specifically ones hosted at GitHub (using their API). I’m also looking for help to support other SCMs, like Bazaar and Mercurial. If you have a little time and want to help out, by all means check out the code at GitHub

Finally, I encourage you to take a look at ticket #8941 and give your thoughts on it. I’ve said to the BDFLs that I want this place to be one of the “pseduo-official-blessed-etc” sites in the Django community. The main obstacle at the moment is integrating all of the different djangonoun sites. So if you have an idea on that, we’d love to see it!

Queryset Refactor

Bryan Veloso — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:33:20 -0700

A few words about the merging of queryset-refactor to trunk and some obvious warnings as well.

As Django starts the final stretch to 1.0, there’ll be a lot of changes to the core code. One of those updates came tonight with revision 7477, queryset-refactor.

If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you’ll already know that the merging of this branch is not only a substantial step towards the 1.0 milestone, but it is also a complete overhaul of the way Django works with different database backends. Now you can do things like subclass models and OneToOneFields actually work!

But why is this being posted here? Well, simple. The refactor brings along a lot of backwards incompatible changes, so before you update your source, just make sure you’re not risking the total annihilation of your project.

Keep your eyes here as the project developers start to update their code to work with the refactor.

Hello World!

Bryan Veloso — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:55:29 -0700

A post of an introduction, thank yous, and what’s to come.

Howdy everybody! I’d like to be the first to welcome you to Django Plugables! By now most of you have already explored the site and I’m pretty psyched that so much has happened already via a twitter, a flickr photo and a few blog posts. Hell, I haven’t even done my own write up yet.

If you’re gawking at the fact that it’s simple, it is. I’m not a code monkey but I’m a designer with pretty good hold on the framework. The fact that I was able to go from idea to execution in 5 days has to count for something, right? :) Even so, I’m very grateful for all the support the site has gotten over the past few days. Especially from my colleagues at Sidebar, Eric Florenzano, Jannis Leidel and Justin Lilly (just to name a few).

Anyway, as it says on the front, what you see here is by no means feature complete. I’ve had larger plans for this from the beginning, but intentionally stopped myself from intentional feature creep since I felt the site as it is could stand alone. But why leave it at that?

Things I’ve already been working on:

Feeds — Right now there are feeds for recent commits and recently added projects, feeds for each project will be coming soon.
Tagging — djagno-tagging is in, I just have to actually tag everything in some semantic manner.
Voting — Along the lines of iusethis.com.
Comments — I’ll be integrating OpenID first, then a user registration system if needed. I don’t want to make everybody create YAL (yet another login).
Git and other SCM support — This is a hard one because it depends on python modules being available. :/
Project Statistics — Stuff above and beyond what Google Code or Trac shows. Can anybody say Ohloh?

If you have any ideas, questions or comments, please feel free to stop by the newly created Get Satisfaction area dedicated to Plugables. I hover over that thing like a hawk, so you won’t have to wait long for a reply. ;)

Thanks everybody! I’m looking forward to making this place awesome. :D