Re: is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread Gabriel Hurley
+1 on deprecating databrowse. Dead code should be excised. As for webdesign, why not roll the one piece in it (the marginally-useful lorem tag) into the main library and deprecate the hook in contrib? -0 on deprecating formtools. For the sake of argument I could see admindocs being deprecated

Re: is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread Markus Gattol
> > +0 on webdesign, since it's functionality that's probably in transient > use by the more invisible members of our community. If it were more > fleshed out, I'd say leave it, but since it's just that single > function, it should probably go eventually. > I'd miss it even though it's just a

Re: is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread Justin Holmes
It depends how surgical this discussion is; if we're at the model level, then it's pretty clear that we need to reinvent auth.User and deprecate functionality accordingly. I'm not hearing anyone say that contrib.auth is an undesired battery tout court, but the sentiment that it fails to "get out

Re: is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread Carl Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/20/2011 06:13 AM, ptone wrote: > At DjangoCon.us there was positive reception to Jacob's thoughts that > Django core could be leaner - people liked the kernel analogy. > > Talk of reducing contrib has been around a long time. > > Per policy,

Re: is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread Jannis Leidel
On 20.09.2011, at 14:13, ptone wrote: > At DjangoCon.us there was positive reception to Jacob's thoughts that > Django core could be leaner - people liked the kernel analogy. > > Talk of reducing contrib has been around a long time. > > Per policy, it takes 3 minor versions to remove something

is it time to start deprecating parts of contrib

2011-09-20 Thread ptone
At DjangoCon.us there was positive reception to Jacob's thoughts that Django core could be leaner - people liked the kernel analogy. Talk of reducing contrib has been around a long time. Per policy, it takes 3 minor versions to remove something from Django - near as I can tell, a