Time for me to delurk and cover a few things. I'm not a core developer of Django, but I honed my skills on the first edition of the Definitive Guide some years ago and am a co-author of a recently released Django-related book and it's sequel (Two Scoops of Django).
First off, I'm not certain what Devashish was asking, but that's okay, I'm going to broach the issue of updating djangobook anyway. As Camilo mentioned, the control of the web version of the book is in the hands of the authors. The author with the most recent exercise of control is Jacob Kaplan-Moss. Since the last pull request was accepted 9 months ago, there have been 34 pull requests submitted for updating content. At this moment, the book is a strange mix of 0.96 era and 1.4 era practices, confusing anyone new to the framework. Now I'm not Jacob Kaplan-Moss, and I'm not going to put words in his mouth, but I completely understand why no activity has occurred on djangobook.com. As a fellow author I can tell you that managing the content on a large, heavily studied volume is an unbelievable amount of work. Pull requests are nice, but there are no tests suites for prose. Note #1: There have also been several 'modernized' forks launched, but as far as I'm aware, none of them have been consistently maintained. In any case, as the book is notoriously out-of-date and inconsistently updated, when I last requested to Jacob that the book needed a warning around it at the end of July, his response was to grant me commit rights. Ahem... The warning on the front of djangobook.com, reviewed by a couple of others, is my contribution. Considering how frequently the book is still recommended and the front page warning ignored, I've considered adding a warning bar at the top of every page. That's arguably controversial, and I've got enough stress in my life to not warrant any more. Note #2: I did consider managing the pull requests and updating djangobook.com myself, but the burden it would cause to my already heavy workload is too much. (Heck, I want open source time right now but that's my business...) Note #3: I've considered taking djangobook.com off the wikipedia page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)#Online_resources. However, as an author of a published Django book myself, it feels weird and arguably inappropriate. So I'm recusing myself from editing if off that document. So where am I going with all this? Well, I would love to see an updated djangobook.com. I'm tired of people emailing me questions asking for help with things on which djangobook.com led them astray. I'm not the person to do this work, to manage this project, but I think it should be updated and managed by someone. The project should be managed by someone in the Django community who: 1. Has a deep understanding of Django. This needs has to be proven via current and previous projects or commits available 2. Has a demonstrable grasp of RestructuredText. 3. Has excellent writing and reading comprehension skills. They need to have publicly available examples of writing. 4. Displays good pull request management techniques. It's easy to accept pull requests, it's hard to reject them without hurting people. 5. Should have written technical tutorials available online in HTML format. 6. Can convince Jacob Kaplan-Moss to grant them commit rights. This _could_ be a GSOC project, or it could be the work of an interested party. It would be nice to see it happen, just as it would be nice to see djangobook.com taken off the wikipedia page until it does get updated. In the meantime, unless no core developer objects, after getting yet another emailed question about mod_apache deployment (thanks to http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter12.html); on Monday I'll be adding a top-of-the-page warning at djangobook.com. Regards, Daniel Greenfeld pyda...@gmail.com On Friday, February 21, 2014 7:56:58 AM UTC-8, Camilo Torres wrote: > > On Thursday, February 20, 2014 2:42:07 PM UTC-4:30, Devashish Badlani > wrote: >> >> I am into my last year of graduation and I am currently an intern in Khan >> Academy ,Foundation for Learning Equality from IIT Bombay .I have been >> developing working with Django for the same >> >> *Title*: Building basic Web Frameworks for each module of Django Book >> for the beginners >> >> I have prepared sample code which uses a JSON file and converts it in to >> a hierarchial topic tree so that a basic developer with the knowledge of >> HTML,CSS can easily understand with the documentation to each of the app >> prepared the interactive way to code in Django >> >> *Sample Code* >> Git Repo: >> https://github.com/deebee07 >> > > Hello Devashish, > > If you are planning to contribute to: http://www.djangobook.com, glad to > hear that. The http://www.djangobook.com project is not controlled by the > Django community, but by the book authors. Please look at the "Warning > about this edition" in http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html to > learn how you can contribute to that project. > > Please, remember this is a list for Django development. > > If you are planning to contribute to a project different from > http://www.djangobook.com/ <http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.html>, > please disregard this message. > > Camilo. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. 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