Hi all,

I'm writing you today to report on the status of the recombination of the 
localflavor app I've proposed a little while ago on the developer list: 
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/vxCStIvpXc4/discussion

To recap: we've handled the handover of the localflavor app to the broader 
community badly to the extent that we only had 7 out of 44 localflavors 
re-released on PyPI. That's a ~15% success rate, which I believe stems from the 
increased maintenance friction of the small packages. We also lost the ability 
to use Transifex to handle translations and didn't provide a unified test 
support.

I've BCC'd the team owners of the relevant localflavors from Github in case 
they are not subscribed to the -developers mailing list and found out that 
there are two non-Django localflavor already on Github (Greek and Lithuanian) 
whose authors I've also reached out to separately.

I've given the maintainers of the django-localflavor-* apps access to the 
django-localflavor repo.

It took longer than expected to actually merge everything together again, since 
some packages had diverged drastically. But I'm happy to announce that the code 
is now ready for another look by everyone interested:

  https://github.com/django/django-localflavor

I've extended the documentation somewhat and decided to use Sphinx' autodoc 
extension for it -- I hope it's pleasant enough:

  http://django-localflavor.readthedocs.org/

184 Tests pass on Python 2.6-3.3, 1.5 and trunk:

  https://travis-ci.org/django/django-localflavor

There is a new Transifex project (under the umbrella of the Django hub, that 
shares translators and strings):

  https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/django-localflavor/

My next steps are:

- see if there are any side issues I overlooked
- collect author information for the AUTHORS file
- deactivate existing django-localflavor-* projects (probably going to use 
Github's new repo redirects)
- figure out how to handle already made PyPI releases of django-localflavor-* 
apps
- write some generic porting instruction for django-localflavor-* > 
django-localflavor
- update the Django docs to point to the new django-localflavor app
- update django-localflavor docs to be more specific about adding new 
localflavors, releases etc
- do PyPI release

Please let me know if you have any questions or if anything of the above 
doesn't make sense.

Thanks,
Jannis

PS: the one-time port script I used at the start can be found here: 
https://github.com/django/django-localflavor/blob/master/scripts/port.py

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