Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm made some updates based on these suggestions, please see the ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16779 On Sunday, November 11, 2012 5:50:18 PM UTC-5, Daniele Procida wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012, Tim Graham > wrote: > >

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012, Tim Graham wrote: >Any specific feedback on this paragraph, or the tutorial as whole, would be >appreciated: My four thoughts: Firstly: I like to see things like: ./runtests.py --settings=test_sqlite include a comment when appropriate; in this

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

And I should say, thanks for the effort on this! On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM, william ratcliff < william.ratcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I develop on windows, linux, and macos--for windows, I have to say that I > tend to use tortoise-git (somehow, I still prefer it to github for > windows),

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

I develop on windows, linux, and macos--for windows, I have to say that I tend to use tortoise-git (somehow, I still prefer it to github for windows), whereas for linux, the command line is greatFrom my experience leaping between platforms, it's rather painful to try to shoehorn the way of

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

Le 11 nov. 2012 à 06:53, Shai Berger a écrit : > On Sunday 11 November 2012, Tim Graham wrote: >> >> I think the part that has the most potential to confuse new contributors is >> the introduction of PYTHONPATH. Claude suggested we could simply instruct >> users to run the

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

On Sunday 11 November 2012, Tim Graham wrote: > > I think the part that has the most potential to confuse new contributors is > the introduction of PYTHONPATH. Claude suggested we could simply instruct > users to run the tests like so: > > PYTHONPATH=/path/to/django ./run_tests.py

Re: #16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

Thanks to those who have weighed in on this thus far. I've rewritten part of the tutorial to use a more recent ticket from the "git era" to hopefully make things less confusing. I think the part that has the most potential to confuse new contributors is the introduction of PYTHONPATH. Claude

#16779 - a tutorial for first time Django contributors

Taavi Taijala has written a tutorial for new contributors that I've given an initial review. I'm hoping we can get a few more sets of eyes on it. Might be useful to pass it on to any newbies you know and have them try it out as well. Thanks! https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16779 --