Clearly I suck at collaborating via text. I'm not very experienced in it, I work much better when I can have discussions in person so its a challenge to articulate on these forums. Thank you all for your patience and responses.
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 9:58:22 AM UTC-5, Derek Adair wrote: > > Apologies, i read your comments as advocating for folding it into the code > base. But please let me clarify what that means to me. I am not advocating > for or against keeping these projects in the same repository, I am > advocating for a clean break from the forks and ownership of these projects > (which has all but already happens it seems). If there is no feasible > upgrade path these projects probably deserve their own namespace, > documentation and TLC. > > To me it would be easier to extend and customize in the sense of a much > lower learning curve. Currently there are Mezzanine specific features in > each of the projects that are made much more difficult to discover by not > only the lack of documentation, but the naming conventions. A new > developer can easily miss the subtle implications of the decision to fork > these projects and it is by far and away not clear that there has been a > clean break until you try to upgrade grappelli/filebrowser. > > I mean something as simple as just changing the names of these projects > would go a LONG way here. Mezzanine-filebrowser + mezzanine-admin sounds > good to me and would add tons of clarity to the dependency chain. > > > On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 8:55:17 PM UTC-6, Ryne Everett wrote: >> >> I'm all for bringing these projects into the code base if this is the >>> case. (says the guy w/ zero commits/PRs) I think that would have alleviated >>> a very significant part of my confusion and you certainly wouldn't get >>> people like me asking this question in 20 different ways. >> >> >> That's a heavy-handed way to deal with a documentation issue. >> >> It would also make extending and customizing the look and feel a lot >>> easier. >> >> >> How so? >> >> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Derek Adair <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm all for bringing these projects into the code base if this is the >>> case. (says the guy w/ zero commits/PRs) I think that would have alleviated >>> a very significant part of my confusion and you certainly wouldn't get >>> people like me asking this question in 20 different ways. It would also >>> make extending and customizing the look and feel a lot easier. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
