GSoC 2015: Django Best Practices Update

[Asif Saifuddin]

Hi,

Having a new thread for my gsoc project idea 2015. Analyzing for more then a month I have decided to work on django best practices updates project. Tim graham and Russels suggestions helped me to have some ideas related to this project. In this thread I hope to have a in depth discussion for the proposal. 

Background:

Over the years, as Django has evolved, the idea of what constitutes "best practice" has also evolved. However, some parts of Django haven't kept up with those best practices. For example, contrib apps do not use class based views.

In short, Django has been bad at eating it's own dogfood. The contents of contrib should be audited and updated to make sure it meets current best practices.

Objectives:

* Anallyzing django contrib apps to figure out which needs overhaul

* Introducing Class Based views and class based generic views in the contrib apps where necessary

* Drawing update path with backward compatibility in mind

Apps Need to be reviewd:

admin, auth, content-type, flatpages, gis, sitemaps, sites, staticfiles, syndication

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this is incomplete draft 

I found the following tickets helpful. Any other related old tickets?

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17209,  https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17208, https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16256

[Tim Graham]

Please put some more time into fleshing out the details of your proposal. As it stands now, you haven't presented much to discuss. Looking for related tickets is part of your job in researching and writing the proposal.