On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Richard Shebora <sheb...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Matt > > You are correct. The "drupal/joomla/plone/wordpress space" does exist > and it is where most people (non-developers) look first. These are > the people who need to perceive django in a more positive light if the > goal is to increase django market share. They are the people who hire > you and I. If not, it's a moot point. > > @Everyone > > I was not clear that I support everything Russ said, and that I am > most in favor of an "Enterprise" site that sets forth standards and > best practices which make apps more compatible and hence more > marketable.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but that's not what I meant by an "enterprise" site. The enterprise site I'm talking about is the list of stuff you can use to convince your pointy-haired, non-technical boss that Django is worth considering instead of J2EE, .Net or whatever other big $$$ "serious enterprise" framework they're being sold. This means reducing the risk factors from a non-technical perspective, or at least framing technical factors at a level that non-technical people can understand. Case studies show that other big companies are using Django, and benefited from using it; lists of contractors show that there are options when problems arise; and so on. The technical requirements for interoperability are a separate issue. It's certainly an issue that should be addressed, but I'm not convinced it requires a whole other site. What is needed in this area is for someone to condense the best practices that have evolved in Pinax (and other comparable large tools) into a coherent guide that can be integrated into Django's own documentation. If this is a project that interests you, I heartily encourage you to pursue it. On a historical note -- Pinax exists as a concrete manifestation of django-hotclub, which is/was a project to do exactly what you describe -- to define and document best practices for reusable Django apps. However, over time, the abstract idea of the Hotclub has taken a back seat to the practicalities of Pinax. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
