Seems reasonable to me On Aug 26, 1:21 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been wondering of late if we need to cut a new release. I have a > few reasons: > > 1) Its been six months since the release of 0.96, and we've made some > good progress since then; > 2) The current trunk seems to be in pretty good condition, and Malcolm > is about to land a big refactor of query.py which could lead to some > temporary instability; > 3) Malcolm has hinted that he has a stash of backwards incompatible > changes that he has been queuing up to make in one big hit prior to a > release (If I have misunderstood you here, Malcolm, I apologise) > > However, most importantly: > > 4) The max_length issue is starting to get ridiculous. So far, the > running ticket count is: 5254, 5252, 5240, 5210, 5208, 5194, 5184, > 5162, 5159, 5144, 5119, 5117. For every user that has gone to the > trouble to post a ticket, there is probably a whole lot more that have > tried, failed, and said "Perfectionists with deadlines? Rubbish! Can't > even get their tutorials right!" > > Newforms-admin is still a little bit off being able to land, so the > previously announced schedule for the deprecation of oldforms would > probably need to be pushed back by a release. > > However I don't see any other way to kill the max_length problem. One > the one hand, the max_length problem is is an RTFM issue - but on the > other hand, if multiple users keep making the the same error over and > over again, there comes a point at which you have to question whether > the documentation is really the problem. > > Comments? > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-)
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