Django Week in Review -- ATTN: Adrian Holovaty

[Clint Ecker]

Hey everyone.  I've got a draft prepared of my first Django Week In Review for tomorrow.  I know that it's extremely long compared to previous WIRs, but I'm trying to catch up for about 2 month's worth here ;)

I've not been able to get in contact with Adrian this past week to arrange for posting access on the site, so I hope that perhaps he'll see this (or someone else who can help me) and get ahold of me off-list.

Here's my draft: http://clintecker.com/django-wir-06252007.html

Let me know what you guys think of the tone, my wordiness, how I split up the post into "random weblinks," changeset roundup, and SoC stuff, and anything else that comes to mind.  Again, please keep in mind that this sort of length probably won't be typical.

Clint

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[Marty Alchin]

Looks good to me, but I do have one thing to mention (and it's nothing
you did wrong, don't worry):

I'd prefer to be mentioned as Marty Alchin instead of Gulopine R.
Holiture, as that (nade-up) name has a long, strange history[1], and
it would probably just serve to confuse people. I do sign my emails as
Gul, and I use Gulopine a lot, but I'm trying to get away from it in
my professional life.

Now that I realize how easily it can be confused, I'll be changing the
name of my blog to avoid further confusion.

All in all though, I'm impressed with the comprehensiveness of your post.

-Gul

[1] http://gulopine.gamemusic.org/2007/06/whats-up-with-that-name.html

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 21:21 -0500, Clint Ecker wrote:
[...]

> Let me know what you guys think of the tone, my wordiness, how I split
> up the post into "random weblinks," changeset roundup, and SoC stuff,
> and anything else that comes to mind. Again, please keep in mind that
> this sort of length probably won't be typical.

Nice work. A couple of things that jumped out:

- The fourth and fifth points in the first section both say 2006
instead of 2007.

- Without wishing to second-guess your choices for changesets of
the week, the change in [5516] is only a very minor
backwards-incompat change, so not sure if it's worth
highlighting in bold and everything (I debated a bit whether to
even note it as such, since the behaviour that changed isn't too
useful).

- You mentioned the blog post from Silver Stripe Software but
didn't provide a link to the article. I presume you mean this
post: http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/51

Regards,
Malcolm

[Clint Ecker]

Good catch. I just wanted to make it clear that it was backward-incompatible.  I really had to scrape to find some interesting changesets for the week as I'd already gotten the big ones in the main section.  I'm not sure whether I should scrape the 3 items in that section or move in the bigger ones from the main section (oracle merge, for example) into the Changeset section.

Thanks for the pointer on the URL, I'll add it.  Sometimes when you look at the same thing for a while you just glaze over stuff like that ;)

Clint

[Clint Ecker]

Thanks,

I'll change that and keep it in mind for future stuff :)

Clint

[SmileyChris]

I suggest we rename this to something like "Django status report" or
"Django activity".
Then if a week (or 10) is missed, no-one can complain ;)

[Benjamin Slavin]

On 6/24/07, Clint Ecker <clint...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let me know what you guys think of the tone, my wordiness, how I split up
> the post into "random weblinks," changeset roundup, and SoC stuff, and
> anything else that comes to mind.

Hi Clint,

The only correction/addition I have is that's Paul Collier's GSoC
project isn't included. [0]

Other than that, this your piece very well done. It's great to have
"the roundup" back.

Thanks for your contribution,
- Ben

[0] http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/527c44781ee071f0/76751ba96c9deb2b

[Marc Fargas]

Hi,
Just a quick note, on:
[...]
[5502] -- Stefane Femgier submitted a patch that correctly sets the
mime-type for admin media content, and was integrated into the trunk the
week.
[...]

Maybe it should read "into trunk this week" not sure about the "the
trunk" but "the week" doesn't make sense (although English isn't my
primary language ;)

Cheers,
Marc

[Clint Ecker]

Ah, I think I had meant: "integrated into the trunk this week"

Thanks for the catch!

Clint

On 6/25/07, Marc Fargas <tele...@telenieko.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Just a quick note, on:
> [...]
> [5502] -- Stefane Femgier submitted a patch that correctly sets the
> mime-type for admin media content, and was integrated into the trunk the
> week.
> [...]
>
> Maybe it should read "into trunk this week" not sure about the "the
> trunk" but "the week" doesn't make sense (although English isn't my
> primary language ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>

> El dom, 24-06-2007 a las 21:21 -0500, Clint Ecker escribi�:

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 6/25/07, Clint Ecker <clint...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah, I think I had meant: "integrated into the trunk this week"

FWIW, both Jacob and Adrian are on trips this week. I'm not sure who
else could grant you blog posting permission.

I'm sure they'll respond as soon as they can.

[Adrian Holovaty]

On 6/25/07, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, both Jacob and Adrian are on trips this week. I'm not sure who
> else could grant you blog posting permission.
>
> I'm sure they'll respond as soon as they can.

Sorry, I've been offline for the past couple of days. Clint, I'll
e-mail you offlist to set things up.

Adrian

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[Bjørn Stabell]

Great work, Clint! These updates are going to be a lifesaver!