In addition to full applications, we should also consider building plugin functionality that would be widely useful. Two things that come to mind:
- Full-text search abstraction layer -- something that could potentially work with multiple search backends, similar to http://haystacksearch.org/and http://code.google.com/p/django-fts/. - Async realtime/chat functionality -- maybe build on the comet_messaging.py<http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/contrib/comet_messaging.py>approach, or look into a greenlet approach, as described here: http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/async.html. Anthony On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:45:18 AM UTC-4, nic wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am a huge web2py fan and would like to propose an idea to the > community. > > I understand that web2py is a development environment and has it’s > roots as an educational platform. One of the things that I have > personally found most useful are the free appliances. However as > web2py has matured over time a lot of these have become dated and as > new developments have emerged I have often been confused about best > practices going forward. > > I would like to propose that we develop a suite of products (open > source of course) based on the best practices of web2py that would be: > > Useful and usable by non-programmers > Serve as a focal point for the community on just how great web2py > could be > Serve as a template for developers > > To be clear the idea is to create a separate project from web2py > itself and then find the best of breed products and develop them in > web2py. Things like: > > A Wiki / Blog / CMS / Forum > An Online Store > A Personal Accounting System > A Media Center > etc ... > > The focus would be on producing complete usable and beautiful > applications. > > I feel that the creation of a separate project will have some > important advantages such as: > > We can create a “brand” around the products. > It will not “hijack” the core web2py focus. > Can have separate focus such as functionality and look and feel > Can include complimentary, tested projects such as open source icons > and skins > Can have it’s own development cycle, (eg release every 6 months) > Can have it’s own repositories etc. > > Ultimately the products could be made available by web hosts just by > the click of a button just like the php ones are now. > > I am very interested in the thoughts of the community and if there is > interest I will move to the next step and create a site (probably on > GAE) for further discussion such as: > > decide on a name > decide on goals > decide on processes > find a home > decide on products > etc ...
