What you think about GAE framework?

[Anton Danilchenko]

Hello developers and users!

Can you tell us, what you think about GAE framework project? What is good, and what is bad in current project situation? I see that we have many things to do, but we need set priorities for our tasks. And you can help us in this!

Please, tell us about difficulties in understanding project (where located documentation? why this is not work? etc). And tell us about what we can do to make project more comfortable for you?

This is really important question. Take a 5 minutes of your time. Thanks!

[Niklas Rosencrantz]

Hello friends and collaborators,
I say you are on the right track and you make the right choices. The greatest advantage with GAE framework I found was it is much easier than other frameworks to get started. Just the way we like there's no manage.py and no buildscript - it's just ready to deploy. With tipfy and others you must configure much more and I got confused trying other frameworks. I see in the groups people ask for facebook and twitter integration. Perhaps you may consider this a priority? Also making available translation in yaml files is a very good idea. Please keep up the good work.
Thanks,
Niklas

[Anton Danilchenko]

Thanks Niklas!

Now we not focused on improve authorization with OpenID and OAuth. Instead we have our local "easy to use" registration and authorization mechanism. We focused on integration registration with reCaptcha.

Next thing in priority - improve comment application. Now we need show splash window with comments list, where data will loaded on AJAX. Also, comments posted with AJAX requests.

Next, we need migrate our current (old) gaeframework.com data to new framework version. But we have not tools to do this easier. Now we search tools for automatically migrate datastore data, if we have changed models structure. We planned to use special file history.yaml where we can describe full history of changes in models structure, what need to do to transform old models to new models. We need run new version of gaeframework.com site, where people can register and post comments with local account registration.

Finally, we need complete admin application. Now we have repair this application and test it. After few days we will commit changes to server. We need create easy, flexible admin interface for manage models in any application. This is similar with Django admin, but more simple and with inline records editing (via AJAX).

After all, we need create forum application (similar with blog). Now I add all actual tasks to our issue tracker http://code.google.com/p/gaeframework/issues/list

If you want to help us in coding, or in documentation writing - please contact with me.

[Niklas Rosencrantz]

That's great to know Anton! I hope you can make a reasonable way to
add an OAuth provider. All other frameworks I tried you got to program
to add an OAuth provider. My idea is that to add an OAuth provider
like friendfeed, linkedin or another, most convenient would be set up
the framework so that an OAuth provider can get added to my GAE
Framework deployment with no coding and just add the provider some
other way like yaml files or config files. I hope you understand what
I mean.
Yours truly,
Niklas

[Anton Danilchenko]

Hi Niklas!

Can you switch our discussion about this feature to this issue. Thanks!

[Anton Danilchenko]

GTUG presentation for googlers - "GAE framework - easy way to Google App Engine and Python".

On Russian - https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVtkvHqcP5ElZGdiemR2N2RfMTA3Y3dzY2poZ3o&hl=ru

On English - https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AVtkvHqcP5ElZGdiemR2N2RfMTIxZ2tiM2doY2I

[Niklas R]

On 26 Jan, 11:55, Anton Danilchenko <anton.danilche...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Niklas!
>
> Can you switch our discussion about this feature to this issue<http://code.google.com/p/gaeframework/issues/detail?id=7>.
> Thanks!
With pleasure I starred the issue. Thanks!

[Anton Danilchenko]

Hello Nikplas!

Please, set selected task to yourself. I have added you to project as member.

[Anton Danilchenko]

You can find yourself here http://code.google.com/p/gaeframework/people/list

[Niklas R]

Thank you Anton. I want to add this GAE framework to already deployed
apps for integration advantages. I use a primitive SHA1 password check
for my own "accounts" but didn't add a session object. Therefore
adding the GAE framework to apps is awaited to abstract away custom
account programming. I hope it's doable and definitely shall
contribute here so that using authentications get convenient for
programmers, users and admins. Sincerely! /Niklas