On May 21, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Jannis Leidel <lei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'd like propose to combine all the django-localflavor-* packages - that were > moved out of contrib a while ago - into a new "django-localflavor" package. > None of the current maintainers would lose the commit bit. I'm ready to do > the heavy lifting for that. > > Ever since the localflavor apps were removed from contrib I've seen many > stale ones, lingering on Github, only collecting issues and pull requests, > without much guidance. We have been missing maintainers since the removal > from contrib, even if some of the core developers helped out every once in a > while. Recently we added a few more maintainers for each of those packages > since they asked for it, which is great. But frankly I think that's not > enough. Up until now only 7 of the 44 localflavor on github.com/django have > been re-released on PyPI as separate packages. In other words, we have a > success rate of handing over the maintainership of ~15%. I think that's > because there is a lot of maintenance friction for each package. > > With the split in packages we also broke the maintenance of translations of > those localflavors, by removing those apps from the previously well > established workflow using Transifex and left it to the maintainers to find a > way. Especially for that kind of app a rather glaring mistake, IMO. > > We also stopped being able to re-use code between localflavors, for example > cryptographic code about ID validation, which in my opinion is a security > liability that alone should be reason enough to have only one package. > > There was also never a clear plan for releasing or deprecation of localflavor > packages, which is the opposite to what we've been doing in the past with our > release policy. > > So what I propose to fix this is simple: > > - combine the localflavor packages into one Python package again, call it > django-localflavor > - give all the individual country maintainers also access to that package > - have a central documentation, e.g. django-localflavor.readthedocs.org > - update the Django docs to point to that package > - ask the maintainers of the 7 already released packages to point to the > newly created django-localflavor > > What do you think? > > Jannis > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > This sounds ok to me. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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