On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Dave <weber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Dave Weber, and I'm a student at the University of Toronto, > studying Computer Science. For one of our undergraduate courses led by > Greg Wilson (http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~gvwilson/), myself and a group > of 10 other computer science students will be trying to port Django to > Python 3. > > Until the end of January, we'll be studying the existing Django code > in order to gain an understanding of how the program works. We'll be > doing this primarily through architecture documentation and > performance profiling. In early February we plan on beginning work on > the port. > > A few of us have experience working with Django, and by the end of > January we should have a much better understanding of it. I've been in > touch with Jacob Kaplan-Moss, who pointed me to this group, and he > also provided me with links about contributing to the Django project > and Martin van Lowis' port. > > We don't really have any specific questions right now as we're pretty > unfamiliar with most of the project at this point in time. However, we > are very eager to learn as much as we can, so if you have any advice, > warnings, or anything at all to say to us, please feel free! We'd like > to hear from all of you as much as possible.
Hi Dave, Sounds like an interesting project! My best piece of advice would be to learn to love the test suite. Django's test suite may take a long time to run, but it is quite comprehensive, and has enabled us to complete several large internal refactoring projects with a minimum of impact on the general user community. My other advice would be to get involved in the community. Don't just treat your Python 3 port as "your CS project", independent of the rest of the world. For example, if your porting efforts discovers a section of code that isn't tested (or tested well), or you discover a simple fix that will boost performance, don't be a stranger - submit a patch and help us make Django better. This even extends to documentation - if your porting efforts generate architecture documentation that might be useful to the general community, we'd love to have that contributed back to the community. Best of luck with your project. I can't wait to see what you come up with :-) Yours, Russ Magee %-)
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