Something has been bugging me for a while.. Check out http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3012 for a pretty critical patch to the locmem cache backend. The patch is accepted and ready for checkin, and more than two weeks have passed since. The bug itself was filed in february. What am I missing here? I ran into this problem every single day, until I found that ticket and the patch.
I love django.. I have spent roughly 3½ months working with it with far better results than I initiallty thought and I see no good alternative to switch to. A lot of times when people complain about that it takes a long time to get something from being a ticket in trac to be commited to the tree, the reply is that it has to do with keeping django stable, assuring trunk is usable at all times. A nice mindset, sure, but what more is needed from the ticket above to get it commited? It has already been approved! I do not wish to step on anyones toes here, but this is a major concern for me. I am about to move a really large existing site to django in the next 6 months and I know I will probably write and submit patches to django during that time, but I am starting to loose the motivation to contribute back. What is the use of writing patches when it takes such a long time before it's committed or even concidered for inclusion, even for critical stuff like the locmem patch above. It is demotivating, and I think more people than me think so too. What is needed to speed up the development while maintaning your standards? Or perhaps another approach to the code base is needed? More committers is needed, I'm sure, but those need to grow out of the community effort, proving themselves, and that obviously takes a lot of time. With the quick growth of django users lately I'm sure the amount of reported bugs and submitted patches will grow, and django development needs to get up to speed to stay on top of the situation. As it stands, I don't think it's clear enough to outsiders if the percieved slowness of development is intentional or due to not enough people helping. If anyone gets upset reading this. please accept my apologies, I am not out to troll. I am just trying to get a grip on how my help would be most effective as I dig deeper into django. Regards, Daniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
