Ticket/Issue Tracker

A few years ago I realized I really liked the UI of Trello.com, so I tried creating a trello-style view of django tickets: https://djello.collinand.org/ (beware, I'm not a designer :) It's basically just 100 lines of JS and a little CSS. It's still my go to for finding tickets. I thought I'd

Re: QuerySet.iterator together with prefetch_related because of chunk_size

Josh, I agree that silently not working is problematic but it has been this way since prefetch_related() was introduced. Something to keep in mind as well is that silently turning it on would also perform P * C extra queries where P is the number of prefetches requested through

Re: Widening participation (Thoughts from DjangoCon)

An alternative that might work well is to triage tickets to mentors, so that a list of tickets with willing mentors is available. It would feel less judge-y than "easy pickings" and also broaden the pool of tickets that could be worked by a newcomer. Of course it hinges on a willing pool of

Re: QuerySet.iterator together with prefetch_related because of chunk_size

I tend to agree with Tobi. Prefetching silently not working on iterator can be quite confusing, unless you have a good understanding of both APIs. It might be possible to do what you're asking, but it'd mean that django is now actually caching the result when it explicitly says it isn't - even

Re: Widening participation (Thoughts from DjangoCon)

Hi Carlton, I've had similar thoughts sitting in the back of my mind for at least a couple of months, so thank you for sharing this. I agree that finding tickets is one of the big problems here, both for new contributors and for sprint leaders. At Pycon UK I took on the role of sprint leader

Re: Widening participation (Thoughts from DjangoCon)

Thanks. Although I don't solve the demographic problem, I should respond to the call for broader participation. I should make myself put aside time to contribute - and I should force my boss to let me ;) On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 9:44 AM Carlton Gibson wrote: > Hi All. > > OK, so last week I

Widening participation (Thoughts from DjangoCon)

Hi All. OK, so last week I was at DjangoCon US in San Diego. (Thank you if you organised that! Hi! if we met and chatted.) I gave a talk ("Your web framework needs you!") inspired by the discussion on the DSF list and