On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:06 +0000, ogghead wrote: > Regarding official Oracle support in Django... > > Wednesday night 10/18, the Front Range Pythoneers > (http://www.fr.co.us.pythoneers.org/) had our monthly meeting. Over a > few pints and a delicious meal, we decided to stop mumbling about a > code sprint day and just do it. We have several veteran Oracle > developers who use cx_Oracle all day long, and most of us have created > Django sites or at least worked through the tutorial. > > So, an announcement: > On November 4th at 9 a.m. at Bivio Software (http://www.bivio.org/) in > Boulder, Colorado Pythioneers and Pythonistas will caffeinate and code, > with the goal of producing a single patch file that can be applied to > the current Django subversion sources to enable Oracle support. > Oracle-specific changes must be confined to the > django.db.backends.oracle package. > > We have at least six confimed sprinters, and likely a few more. Tom, > Malcolm, and anyone else who's had a hand in this, let me know if you > think this is a productive idea before we get committed to it. We will > need to communicate a lot with you all to make sure we haven't missed > any branches or patches that already exist, and to get your pointers > before we dive in. We could also make it a "virtual" sprint if others > outside of the area want to pitch in remotely.
Cool! :-) Since November 4 is a Saturday (early Sunday for me), I can be available on IRC if you want to make a sprint channel (or an open-mic VOIP setup or something). I think you might need to spread your changes a little wider than just the backend (some management.py changes), but that's something that will become apparent on the day. This is a really good idea and nice to see somebody picking up the challenge. Now I just need to find a machine around the house somewhere that I can resurrect and install Oracle again for testing. The last one had the magic smoke escape and she don't turn on no more. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
