On 2011-01-11, at 14:39 , shofty wrote: > but by the same token, ive not seen a mailing list that hasn't made me > want to gouge my own eyes out. its not a great place for reading code > is it? you can't do a [code] [/code] to isolate an example on it. If you configure your MUA to display text with a fixed-size font, it's pretty easy to display code in an email. There is no need to "isolate" an example of it, just indent it a bit to create a separate block if you really want to. And clearly no need for [code] tags.
Hell, there are lists (hg's for instance) where code review is handled by posting patchbombs inline on the list and reviewers commenting on the patch. And it works pretty damn well too. > ASIDE: you'd think there'd be a djangonaut smart enough to amend the > existing forum code im sure i've seen (in pinax maybe) to add in a > [stacktrace][/stacktrace] and then start a community helpsite. I'm sure there is, the question is if there's a djangonaut able to do that who sees *value* in doing this. Apparently hasn't been the case so far, you might be the one to change this no? > all im doig here is pointing out that it is hard to find working > examples of code on the web for many reasons. And a forum would *not* help with that: forum posts get outdated just as anything else, and people aren't going to go edit their old code all the time in order to ensure it stays current. Just as bloggers rarely go through their archive to cleanup or fix breakage in their previous code. Furthermore, form management is much more heavyweight than a mailing list in that you have to deal with more extensive moderation and spam management needs. And the bigger the community using them, the harder and more expensive (in terms of time) it is. If you have the time to launch yourself into such a project, you should go ahead, I don't think the django core team really has that kind of time on their hands. Especially while they're trying to release 1.3. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
