On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What if we, the community, created our own site. djangoapps.com or
something. It would allow people to upload there own django apps.
People could rate and comment on the apps posted there. And it would
of course be written using django.
Yes.
A community-run app repository is something I've wanted from the view
beginning. I've held off doing anything about it until people get
some time to write some apps, but it's getting to the point where
said apps have been written, so perhaps it's time to start thinking
about this.
There's a few questions we'll need to address and issues we'll need
to address first, however:
- First, we'd need to decide on criteria for submissions into the app
repository. I think we ought to work to avoid overlap and go for a
"standard library" approach as opposed to something like CPAN. There
will probably need to be one or more arbiters who have the final say
on submissions... but see the next point.
- None of us here at the Journal-World should have any control
(beyond what any community member has) over accepting or rejecting
submissions. We sell a commercial CMS built on top of Django, and we
need to avoid even the possibility of our commercial interests
affecting a repository. I frankly can't picture anyone here trying
to influence the availability of Django apps because they compete
with Ellington (our commercial package), but I don't want anyone to
even suggest such a conflict. I'd be happy to host the repository on
our servers -- our bandwidth and storage is essentially free -- but
someone(s) from the community is going to need to be in change.
- We need to fix on a good structure for app packages. As a few
people have mentioned, the one that django-admin startapp creates may
or may not be good in the long term. Personally, I think it would be
cool to load apps from ZIP files (like JARs) so that an app is a
single package... If the app repository is structured well enough,
we could conceivably roll installing of apps from the repository into
django-admin -- "django-admin download gallery"?
This is a great idea; let's run with it.
Jacob
