On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> As everyone knows, it's been a while since I spent much time on Satchmo. I > recently spent some time getting myself back in the swing of things and > hope to start making some forward progress with Satchmo. To be clear, I > still would appreciate any and all efforts to help but wanted to let folks > know I'm going to start plugging away in the days/weeks/months ahead. > > That's good to hear! > Since I've been out of the loop a while, the biggest thing I would like to > do is get Satchmo working with Django 1.6. I have made some updates to the > supporting packages and updated them in PYPI and would like to get a newer > version of Satchmo out there as well. > > A couple of thoughts I've had: > - Should we migrate from using PIL to Pillow? It looks like pillow is > being updated more and is more installable so this seems like a > straightforward suggestion but I am curious if anyone has any concerns with > this approach. > +1 . I've used Pillow on a couple (non-Satchmo) projects and it's been everything I hoped PIL would be -- which is installable yet stable after installation. > - I am considering wrapping django-signals-ahoy into Satchmo. It would be > one less dependency and since it is relatively simple, I don't see the > harm. Any thoughts here? > That's probably a good idea, since no one has updated it since 2009. Whatever happened to Bruce anyway? > - Are there any other watchouts people have after they have started using > Django 1.6 with respect to Satchmo? > > Finally, I'd appreciate any help with triaging bugs in bitbucket. If you > have bugs or issues that are still valid, feel free to update tickets. > > Please chime in with thoughts or issues. I'd love to try to get a little > momentum going again. > > I have one thing that has always bugged me.... getting a Price for a Product has always been difficult. I can see the current scheme is good for T-shirt sizes, etc. But can there be a column for "base_price", etc so that people that have one price per item don't have to get another object and query the database for it? That way, they get the Product and have the Price. Anyway, glad you are back. > Thanks, > Chris > > -- > Mike > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Satchmo users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Mike Hostetler SquarePeg Systems http://www.squarepegsystems.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
