Hello, fellow Pootle users!

I've started to port Pootle from jToolkit to Django[1].

I will briefly try to explain why this is necessary.

When I started to hack around Pootle, I was more or less on my own.
Documentation is very scarce, as there's only one tutorial on jToolkit's web
page [2]. Current developers don't have much time to offer to newcomers, so 
the
only way was to dig into source code, browsing back and forth, to get known
with source.

On the other side, Django is very well documented and it's developer community
is quite big, making it easy to find help when a newcomer is stuck with
framework. It is also more likely for a developer to contribute, if the 
project
has good documentation and by using Django, we'd have half of Pootle 
documented
very well. Also, Pootle developers now also maintain jToolkit, where if Pootle
moves to Django, framework is maintained by others, leaving current Pootle
developers more time for Pootle.

I intend to make migration with a set of patches against svn trunk. Maybe it
would even be smart to create a new branch.

I'm now about 25% done and I've significantly compacted code, making it more
readable. Some of the localization strings have also been moved to templates,
which also makes some code obsolete.

What is your opinion on this?

Regards,
Gasper Zejn

[1] http://www.djangoproject.com/
[2] http://jtoolkit.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html

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