Sorry if I sounded intrusive, what I meant was that prototyping with jQuery (or whatever other JS framework) may at the very least provide a quick way prove that a particular idea works (instead of a time- consuming plain-JS implementation). But it is of course for the BDFLs to decide if that is allowed or not.
On Mar 31, 4:30 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:02 PM, mrts <m...@mrts.pri.ee> wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 2:41 pm, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> Correct. Django has very deliberately made a decision to avoid > >> blessing any single Javascript toolkit. It is unlikely that this will > >> change simply because a GSoC applicant has proposed it. Proposals that > >> hinge on the use of JQuery (or any other toolkit) will not be looked > >> upon favourably. > > > From a conceptual point of view this is of course correct, however, > > from a pragmatic viewpoint this restriction *could* be lifted if the > > person who implements this can prove that admin refactor will be > > considerably easier by coupling jQuery. > > > At least a jQuery-based initial version can be provided and the > > decision to implement things with plain JS instead can be made later, > > before the eventual merge. > > mrts, it's not just correct from a "conceptual" point of view. It's > correct in every conceivable way. > > Please keep in mind that I'm one of the core developers, and as such, > I am in a fairly good position to be able to advise students on what > will be considered a strong proposal for the GSoC. We (the Django Core > Developers) _might_, at some point in the future, in consultation with > the community, pick a javascript framework to use for contrib.admin. > However, that decision isn't going to be made lightly, it's unlikely > to be made at the request of a GSoC student, and it certainly isn't > going to be made between now and the submission deadline for GSoC. > > It would be _exceedingly_ unwise to advise any student to base a GSoC > proposal on the use of JQuery (or any other framework, for that > matter). > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
