Hi Tim, You make some good points. Basically, my situation is that I want to use some features of Django v1.10 for a project at my company, but I am unable to because I use django-formtools for a FormPreview, and it is not compatible with v.1.10. I am also worried about using Django for future projects given that there seem to be problems finding people to contribute to what seems to be an important package. Whether I contribute depends on the answers to several questions: (1) How much work is necessary to get formtools compatible with v1.10? (2) Would my contribution make a difference, given that I would be a new contributor, and I don't have a ton of time to give? (3) Is there another package that people are using for FormPreviews that I'm not aware of? I couldn't find anything else that was more up-to-date than django-formtools. (4) Is this a sign that people simply aren't using Django for this task, and are maybe instead using some kind of Javascript library instead? If you have any information these questions, please let me know.
Thanks, Eric On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 6:04:59 PM UTC-7, Tim Graham wrote: > > Is the situation bad enough that you would volunteer to maintain the > project? > > The Django team is a collection of volunteers (excepting me) who work on > Django. It seems that no one on the team or reading this mailing list has > time or interest in maintaining the project. We need to clarify the > maintenance status, but that doesn't necessarily mean continuing the > project in its current form if there's little interest. > > Absent volunteers, another idea could be for an interested freelancer to > start a kickstarter-style fundraiser to raise money to fund some time to > work on some issue in the backlog. At least it would help determine if any > users think the project is worth paying for. > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 7:28:59 PM UTC-5, > [email protected] wrote: >> >> This is really bad. django-formtools used to be part of the core of >> Django. Is this getting the attention it deserves from the Django >> Foundation? >> >> On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 9:55:48 PM UTC-7, Asif Saifuddin wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> In case there is lack of active maintainers for the project then you >>> could add me to the list of maintainers. I do contribute to django eco >>> system regularly. >>> >>> my github activities: >>> >>> github.com/auvipy >>> >>> >>> And about moving to jazzband, I do take part in django-admin2 >>> maintenance there with the two other old maintainers, The fact is moving it >>> to jazzband haven't increased the active co maintainers. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Asif >>> >>> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 5:45:59 AM UTC+6, Tim Graham wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> django-formtools seems neglected. It's been several months since the >>>> release of Django 1.10 but a compatible version of formtools hasn't been >>>> released to PyPI. >>>> >>>> Personally, I don't know if it's important to maintain it as an >>>> "official project." An alternative could be to "donate" it to JazzBand ( >>>> https://jazzband.co/) and see if the community maintains it. >>>> >>>> If you have an interest in this package (especially if you want to >>>> maintain it), let us know. >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/5e728ee6-f722-4286-ade5-facfb81d3899%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
