Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Carlton Gibson
Check out Django-admin-views https://github.com/frankwiles/django-admin-views I think it needs a bit of an update for recent versions of Django (but I suspect those are minor) and o tho knit does what you’re after (or close) On Tuesday, 25 October 2022, Vasanth Mohan wrote: > Hi Igor, > >

Re: Changing the role of the Technical Board

2022-10-25 Thread Eric Matthes
I want to offer a perspective from outside the Django community. > I also saw the relative lack of candidates for Board elections and essentially thought "better burnt-out me than literally nobody". I appreciate Andrew's honesty here. I have been a volunteer on our local mountain rescue team

Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Vasanth Mohan
Hi Igor, Most of my cases are for internal tools and grouping together unrelated tables as you just summarised. Some examples are, - Writing text that can need to send out to clients by triggering a predefined email templates - Creating internal forms that should be saved to multiple tables or

Re: Changing the role of the Technical Board

2022-10-25 Thread Andrew Godwin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022, at 12:12 AM, James Bennett wrote: > > My first reaction to this is: if having a DEP that says the Technical Board > is supposed to take the lead in gathering feature proposals didn't get them > to do it, it doesn't feel like another DEP saying they're responsible for >

Re: Changing the role of the Technical Board

2022-10-25 Thread Carlton Gibson
*Loosening eligibility is fine, though I agree it's going to be very difficult to write down in an enforceable way -- the DEP 10 language and process was intended primarily to prevent trolls and other bad-faith actors from being able to run effectively for the Technical Board, and there's a

Re: Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Igor Margitich
Hi Vasanth, Can you ptovide an example when do you need generic admin view? I have case where I need gather some information from different not directly related tables. I have used https://pypi.org/project/django-nonrelated-inlines/. Can't say it is exactly what I need but seems it does the job.

Creating internal/admin pages without Models

2022-10-25 Thread Vasanth Mohan
Hello, I'd like to gauge the general opinion of more experienced devs before starting on a project. I personally love the sheer flexibility that the django admin provides me to get started on the DB and manage the backend. I can add actions, filters and charts with just a few third-party

Re: Changing the role of the Technical Board

2022-10-25 Thread Florian Apolloner
Hi James, On Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 12:27:03 AM UTC+2 James Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 2:24 PM Andrew Godwin wrote: > >> Proposing features - this is already in DEP 10, so I more just want to >> get that aspect of the Board actually going (and, as a side-effect, have >>

Re: Changing the role of the Technical Board

2022-10-25 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 6:33 PM Andrew Godwin wrote: > It has not. While I cannot speak for the other members of the Board, I got > burnt out in 2019, and then the pandemic began, and so it has not really > been something I've pushed for in the past three years (and I believe I was > one of the