Personally, if the author/maintainer of any library claims it is maintained/up-to-date, I say trust them. Most people are pretty honest about the status of their projects. But it does require a positive response to really make this claim.
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Aaron Watters <arw1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Chris McDonough <chr...@plope.com> > > wrote: > > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks > > seems to be the place where folks > > > are registering their respective web frameworks. > > > > > > I'd like to move some of the frameworks which are > > currently in the various > > > categories which haven't been active in a few years. > > In particular, I'd > > > like to move any framework which hasn't had a release > > since the beginning of > > > 2008 (arbitrary) into the "Discontinued / Inactive" > > framework category. I'd > > > be willing to do the work to make sure I wasn't moving > > one that actually > > > *did* have releases past that but just hadn't updated > > the page. > > > > > > Any dissent? > > > > > > - C > > Why not call them "apparently stable" > versus "under active development"? Is the > cgi module "discontinued"? > > I'm a little sensitive on this topic > because people tell me that Gadfly is "inactive" > or "discontinued" > but it still does what it does > as documented very well. > > Frequent releases may actually be a sign of > bugginess and bad design. > If you suspect a project is really dead, maybe you > could try to contact the authors and ask about > what they think. > > -- Aaron Watters > > === > BTW, I think "Release early, release often" is nonsense > because it means you are probably releasing > something buggy and unstable which will just alienate > your users, who will never come back to see the better > version. > > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/ianb%40colorstudy.com > -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker
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