On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > About "enterprise": > > For me "enterprise" always meant "business and non-profit" as a way to > emphasize "non-profit" since that is what I have major interest in. It > looks like many people read "enterprise" as large and bloated > businesses.
I think that's right, especially in the world of frameworks. The meaning of "enterprise" here has been established (polluted?) by Enterprise Java, which is a large and bloated framework (or pile of frameworks). (Java is the new Cobol.) I understand what you mean by "enterprise", but it's definitely not what readers are going to understand. At the moment, I don't have a better idea. But I'm sure we can come up with one. > I have nothing against changing the slogan (and we have have a poll > like we did for the logo) but I stand by original intention: web2py > targets businesses and non-profits as opposed to the occasional > hacker. I claim this because our goals are backward compatibility, > easy of development and security. Other frameworks like those that > require programming at the WSGI level and release a new version under > a different name every six months, seem to target python experts with > above average hacking abilities. > > I also want to challenge the notion that I am the only web2py > developer. If you look at commits in the last 6 months, there has been > way more code contributed by Jonathan, for example, than by me. The > new template.py was written entirely by Thadeus. A lof of the code > from contrib was created by Mariano. It is true that I have know > web2py longer than other and I may know some inner working details > better than other, but for every web2py module, there is somebody who > know is at least as well than me if not better.
