You could just include the necessary info in the README, or make a wrapper script that does it for them - although I tend to stick with READMEs where possible as they consume less time.
If the code is coming straight out of production, there's a few tips I'd recommended; * Ensure that you test the code outside of the production environment against a test project, and make sure it works as expected. * Triple check that you haven't left any private info in the code * Provide a (reasonable) amount of documentation Personally, I tend to opt for this license; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL There are many places you can put your code (GitHub, my most favourite), and others such as BitBucket and Google Code - again it's down to personal preference. Here is an example of a project I open sourced a while back... at the time I thought it was done well, but I later realised it needed a serious amount of re-writing and documentation - which I still haven't got around to doing; https://github.com/foxx/django-cutemodel Others may be able to offer a bit more advice, but the above is a head start at least! Hope this helps! Cal On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Joshua Russo <josh.r.ru...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have project that I have been working and I was contemplating open > sourcing it but I ran into a little hang up. How to handle the database > authentication. The settings file obviously needs to be included but I > don't want to advertise the production database login. How is this > generally handled? > > Also, are there procedures that need to be followed to "properly" open > source a project, or is it really just choosing a licence and dubbing it so? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/LJU31pYrcXgJ. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@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. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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.
