I think Markus is currently working on this idea, along with Ian Foote, who has contributed some precursor work to make the idea possible (deconstructed expressions). The current PR is https://github.com/django/django/pull/8056
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 05:39:11 UTC+11, akki wrote: > > Hi > > This is in regards of this thread that was posted a few days back - > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-developers/8qvrKfZaP2o > > I think "extending support for expressions into indexes" would make a good > candidate for the ideas page. This post > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/3c8AvB3X6mk/gbkbbwEuCAAJ> > by > Josh mentions steps to be followed to accomplish this task in a nutshell > (1st point had been completed in last year's GSoC). The ticket for the same > is https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26167. > For the complexity of this task I would suggest that it's between > medium-hard as it requires good knowledge about how both expressions and > class based indexes work in Django. > As far as mentoring the project is concerned I am currently not in a > situation to state if I'll be free for the task after a couple of months so > can't commit on that right now. I'll definitely help out the student with > any queries if anyone does pick up this project this year. > > -- 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/7a88ea98-b642-49c6-b348-15429058b754%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
