Stagnating Djangobook? Broken Atom feed?

[AndrewK]

I've been learning Django for a while, but I'm new to this group, so
if there's a source of news that I'm not aware of, where this has been
covered, please accept my apologies.

Does anybody know why the writing of the Djangobook seems to have
ground to a halt? I check it fairly frequently, and just tried to add
the atom feed to my RSS reader, only to find it's a broken link. The
javascript comment system seems to be broken now as well (Firefox
2.0.0.3 on WinXP).

I keep half-expecting to see a weblog post on http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/
saying, "Oh yeah - we've been busy doing xyz, so the book's been
shelved for a while."

Does anybody know what the status quo is on this? I'm not intending to
bad-mouth the project, which I think is great (I'm using it, after
all). I was just curious.

[vfo...@gmail.com]

I don't know for sure, but since some features will change rather
dramatically before 1.0 is released (admin-newforms for instance), I
imagine they decided to put the chapters that would be affected on
hold until feature freeze.

Vince.

On May 28, 6:48 am, AndrewK <andrew.kem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been learning Django for a while, but I'm new to this group, so
> if there's a source of news that I'm not aware of, where this has been
> covered, please accept my apologies.
>
> Does anybody know why the writing of the Djangobook seems to have
> ground to a halt? I check it fairly frequently, and just tried to add
> the atom feed to my RSS reader, only to find it's a broken link. The
> javascript comment system seems to be broken now as well (Firefox
> 2.0.0.3 on WinXP).
>

> I keep half-expecting to see a weblog post onhttp://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Hey Andrew --

The reason you haven't seen updates to the book is that we're in the
process of doing the final reviews for print. It's entirely
uninteresting work so we're not doing it publically.

Expect to see the first of the final chapters online in the next
couple of weeks; we'll be posting them as we send 'em off to Apress.

Jacob

[AndrewK]

Great - thanks for your replies, Jacob and Vince.

Looking forward to having that book sitting beside me :-)

[itsnotvalid]

I am hungry for the book.
But if the book is going for reviews, is there no more major changes
from svn-trunk to 1.0?
It is only such a case if a book could really come out.

[Rob Hudson]

I was kind of wondering the same... is the Django Book going to align
with Django 1.0?

[Matt Boersma]

On May 30, 9:29 am, Rob Hudson <treborhud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was kind of wondering the same... is the Django Book going to align
> with Django 1.0?

If it's going to press in June as Apress currently claims, then I'm
guessing "Pro Django" won't cover Django 1.0. Jacob? It is nice to
see that it mentions Oracle, so I hope that means our branch will be
merged before the book comes out...

(I just bought the excellent "Programming Erlang" book from Pragmatic
Programmers, and I wish there were a similar "get the PDF now, the
dead tree version later" option for the Django Book.) We'll buy
several copies when it is released.