On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:53 AM, rcs_comp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Maybe I am reading too much into the comment, but I would like to > encourage you to steer clear of the attitude behind this statement.
And I'd encourage you to quote in context-- a user had repeatedly marked the ticket "ready for checkin" when it wasn't, and was being encouraged to bring the issue to the dev list for additional resources-- just as you have done here. The full quote: ' pjs, please stop marking this ready for checkin; that's a distinction only a developer or triager is supposed to make. You'll succeed in getting attention, but only the bad kind. Running Django under IIS simply isn't something most core devs can do, and without review this can't go in. Your best bet to pus things along is to point to this ticket on django-dev and ask if anyone can review it. Please be patient and understand that IIS is far from Django's preferred deployment environment and thus is likely to be met with a good deal of skepticism. ' > Do > you really want to alienate and be skeptical of *a lot* of potential > users out there that might want to use Django just because you have a > preference for a different platform? Why not ask someone to donate a > Windows hosting environment so the devs have access to it and can test > Django on IIS? Indeed. I have previously expressed interest in supporting SQL Server, and indeed there are many people who could benefit from it. Unfortunately, no one stepped up to support adodbapi, so it was removed. Oracle support was only allowed into the tree after a group committed to supporting it-- which they have done and done well. I bet support for IIS and SQL Server would be welcomed if the people who benefit from it would also commit to supporting it. > Don't > be skeptical of us, use our interest in Django to make the framework > that more robust and attractive to a larger number of users. Contributors have limited resources and time, and open source is a benefit when common goals result in receiving more than you give-- but being motivated to give nonetheless. That said, Django is not a popularity contest-- it is a web development framework which so far has suffered from a distinct lack of *contributions* from Windows-land. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
