Anyone want to take over maintaining Instant Django?

[cjl]

Djangoholics:

I no longer have the time or interest to maintain my little project:

http://www.instantdjango.com

If anyone would like to take over the project, I would gladly give it
away. Right now it costs a few dollars in shared hosting a month, and
a few more dollars for the downloads I host with AWS. If you take over
the project I will give you the domain, but I'm not going to pay the
hosting.

I'll also give you my 'build' script, but it no longer works correctly
because the Python core devs broke the Windows installer, and mocked
me when I reported the bug.

The project website gets a hundred or so hits a day, and several
thousand downloads a month. It also ranks highly for a few different
google searches related to Django.

Let me know if you have any interest. It wouldn't take much effort to
maintain, I just can't do it anymore.

-cjl

[Alexander Jeliuc]

It is your child. :(

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[Sithembewena Lloyd Dube]

Hi there. While I cannot extend on it for a while yet, I have a few thoughts on why one would keep this site "alive".

Please email me some stats like total running costs, average monthly hits? Would be nice to see Google Analytics stats.

Thanks.

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[thusjanthan]

Hi,

I wouldn't mind taking it on. I can host it on my hosting server and
maintain your child for you. Do let me know and we can exchange the
information.I am an eager new learner of django but am creating an
enterprise level application for a university at the moment and will
get up to speed rather fast.

Cheers,
Thusjanthan.

[!!CONDORIOUS!!]

Hello Cjl,

I can host it for you and spend some time keeping it up to date. I
have built windows installers before so I could probably fix the
installer issues.

Cheers,
Condor

[Andy McKay]

On 2010-07-13, at 7:37 AM, cjl wrote:

> I no longer have the time or interest to maintain my little project:
>
> http://www.instantdjango.com

> I'll also give you my 'build' script, but it no longer works correctly

> because the Python core devs broke the Windows installer, and mocked
> me when I reported the bug.

Is the source for building it in some sort of source control eg: github?
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[cjl]

Thanks for the replies.

To be clear, I'm not looking for hosting, I'm looking for someone to
take it completely off my hands. This means doing whatever you want
with it, but I would hope it would at least mean keeping it up to
date. This only takes and hour or two whenever a new version of Django
is released, but I no longer have any interest in doing it.

@Andy - The "build" script is a windows '.bat' file. Basically, you
put all the components that comprise Instant Django into a folder, run
the '.bat' file, and in builds the Instant Django download. This got a
little harder to do after the Python dev's broke the MSI installer.
Prior to Python 2.6 you could install Python from the command line
into a self-contained temporary directory, without touching the
underlying host system. This is no longer possible, and I couldn't
convince anyone that mattered that it was a problem.

Anyway, I'll email the people who have expressed an interest directly
with further details.

-CJL

[Thanos Vassilakis]

I would be quite interested. I use instant django so might work out
for me.

Thanos

[Sid]

I would be willing to take it on or we can also do it as a community
effort?
Instant Django is how i got started into web dev and now i'm a full
time django freelancer so would love to give some love back.

-Sid
http://sidmitra.com

[Victor Hooi]

Hi,

Whatever happened to this?

@sidmitra - did you manage to take over maintainership of this project?

If not, @cjl - do you still have the scripts for this?

Cheers,

Victor