Re: Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-02 Thread guettli
thank you all for your feedback. I think it would be good to reference from the individual page to the matching comparison grid (if one exists). It tells newcomers: Professionals do re-use, they don't re-invent. For example the python docs sometimes have a box called "See also" which contains

Re: Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-02 Thread Sergei Maertens
My main concern is that it might appear that Django officially endorses the website, and that it might not be clear to developers that Django isn't directly involved with all those third party packages - which could be potentially harmful. I'm also think that if you start linking to a grid for

Re: Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-01 Thread Aymeric Augustin
On 1 févr. 2016, at 12:20, Markus Holtermann wrote: > I think that links to 3rd party pages with grids, comparisons, pros'n'cons, > scattered all over Django's documentation aren't too helpful. I agree. I’m +0 on linking to Django packages on a page that talks about

Re: Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-01 Thread Markus Holtermann
I think that links to 3rd party pages with grids, comparisons, pros'n'cons, scattered all over Django's documentation aren't too helpful. I'd probably prefer a separate page in the docs that links to those 3rd party pages. The general problem with those sites though, they are not audited for

Re: Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-01 Thread Federico Capoano
It seems like a good proposal, It would be good to know why Sergei doesn't think it is appropiate for Django to add links to third party package comparison grids. django-rest-framework links to third party extensions in its documentation and this had a positive effect on the whole DRF

Links from django docs to djangopackages.com should be 'officially endorsed' or not?

2016-02-01 Thread guettli
This ticket was closed as invalid: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/26159 {{{ Here comes a pull request to add a link to the djangopackages comparison grid "Pagination". Background: The pagination in django core is only very basic. Most people want more. I think re-use helps more then