On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Kevin Howerton <kevin.hower...@gmail.com> wrote: > "You seem to be suggesting that a fork will somehow magically fix the > speed of Django development. I ask you: who is going to work on this > fork?" > > I think a hostile fork is almost a certain outcome if development > continues as it has. Not only is the resistance to make backwards > incompatible changes in future releases a bad policy for the quality > of the framework, but the behavior in trac has a negative effect on > community contributions. [...] > Personally I believe my time might be better spent developing a fork, > than arguing over clear flaws in architecture decisions that "can't be > changed".
Django is BSD licensed; no one is going to stop someone from making a fork if they want to. That no one has done so is, IMHO, a good sign that the Django codebase and development process is considered solid by the community. Solid, of course, can sometimes be boring. :-) There's nothing wrong with public experimentation; why not push a Django branch up on GitHub with some features you find interesting? You don't have to "fork" in order to develop your own branch; we've been maintaining an internal branch of Django at The Onion for a couple of years now, but we still track upstream aggressively. Sometimes I wonder if a long-running experimental playground branch (or branches) on GitHub would be a healthy way to direct some of the energy and interest in less conservative changes; as pieces matured there, they could be considered for the mainstream trunk, and trunk would in turn remain nice and stable. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@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.
