Quick update: The maintainers of the non-Django localflavors (Greece and Lithuania) both agreed to join in, too! \o/
Best, Jannis On 09.06.2013, at 13:33, Jannis Leidel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" 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/django-developers?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" 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/django-developers?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
