Re: Unicode SlugField

[Florian Apolloner]

Hi,

it surely won't change in 1.5 since we already released an alpha.

Cheers,
Florian

[Russell Keith-Magee]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Florian Apolloner <f.apo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

it surely won't change in 1.5 since we already released an alpha.

That's incorrect -- it's still possible. Alpha is the freeze for "big" features. Little features can still be added up till the release of the beta. A minor enhancement to an existing field would definitely fall under the category of a minor feature.

However, this all hinges on someone getting:

 1) consensus on a design,

 2) a commit-ready patch that implements that design.

Reading the ticket, we haven't yet achieved (1). The most recent comment was 9 months ago, and hasn't been followed up. For the record, that comment doesn't "promise" anything -- it's just saying that if a change is going to happen, it couldn't happen any sooner than 1.5 (since 1.4 was already out, and a change like this *won't* be back ported).

So - if you want this, now would be a very good time to do exactly what the ticket says, and lead the discussion advocating it.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)

[Claude Paroz]

Le jeudi 1 novembre 2012 14:32:12 UTC+1, Russell Keith-Magee a écrit :

However, this all hinges on someone getting:

 1) consensus on a design,

 2) a commit-ready patch that implements that design.

Reading the ticket, we haven't yet achieved (1). The most recent comment was 9 months ago, and hasn't been followed up. For the record, that comment doesn't "promise" anything -- it's just saying that if a change is going to happen, it couldn't happen any sooner than 1.5 (since 1.4 was already out, and a change like this *won't* be back ported).

So - if you want this, now would be a very good time to do exactly what the ticket says, and lead the discussion advocating it.

For me, changing the outcome of validate_slug is not an option, like Paul wrote on the ticket. I'd suggest:
  a) creating a new validate_uslug validator (better name anyone?)
  b) allowing a custom validator to be passed to the SlugField constructor

Claude