Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:56:37 PM UTC, Dave Murphy wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:03:36 PM UTC, Bruno Girin wrote: >> >> So I'd much rather have the charm auto-generate part of the config in a >> sensible way and then tell people: if you use Juju, don't provide those >> settings in y

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Murphy
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:03:36 PM UTC, Bruno Girin wrote: > > So I'd much rather have the charm auto-generate part of the config in a > sensible way and then tell people: if you use Juju, don't provide those > settings in your config, the charm will do it. > ...and if they do? How is this any

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Christopher Glass
For what it's worth, "other PaaS solutions" solve this by letting people call a python function from settings.py I think it's a good solution. On Mar 5, 2013 8:04 PM, "Bruno Girin" wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 13:35:41 UTC, Dave Murphy wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:17:13 PM U

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 13:35:41 UTC, Dave Murphy wrote: > > On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:17:13 PM UTC, Michael wrote: >> >> Are there other better options that wouldn't force people to change their >> code to use the charm? >> > > For the charm to be of sufficient value, it needs to be opiniona

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Murphy
On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 1:17:13 PM UTC, Michael wrote: > > Are there other better options that wouldn't force people to change their > code to use the charm? > For the charm to be of sufficient value, it needs to be opinionated, otherwise it's going to suffer from trying to work out-of-the-box

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Michael Nelson
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Dave Murphy wrote: > On Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:45:56 PM UTC, Bruno Girin wrote: > >> Patrick solved that problem by separating different config elements in >> different files but this implies that juju'ised applications would need to >> follow the same structure.

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Murphy
On Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:45:56 PM UTC, Bruno Girin wrote: > Patrick solved that problem by separating different config elements in > different files but this implies that juju'ised applications would need to > follow the same structure. Is that a good idea? If you're aiming for a PaaS-style

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-05 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:45:56 UTC+1, Bruno Girin wrote: > The main stumbling block at the moment and for which we could do with > Django expertise is about the structure of the settings files. Some > settings are application specific and should be left alone by Juju, others > are environment

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Chris, I've been working with Patrick on this charm and I implemented a simple version of support for private repositories. It basically creates a .netrc file with the user name and password for the correct machine. It's not ideal but it did enable me to get code from a private github repo.

Re: Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-02 Thread Christopher Glass
Hi Patrick, Great to hear you're interested in writing a Django charm for juju! I have toyed around with the idea, but never got around to implementing something good. I started looking at the current Django charm a little while ago, and while it works to some extend I think we could make reall

Request for comments on a new Open Source Paas platform for Django

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick
Hi, I'm building a Juju based Open Source Paas platform for Django and I need your help because it is a hard task to make a PAAS system that is flexible enough to deploy any projects and at the same time simple to use. For the ones that don't know Juju, it's a service orchestration software compa