Doing a big reply. Trying to avoid too much clutter with a large blast of messages from me.
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Kevin Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > I really need to be using TG on a regular basis again. Fortunately I've > started a new job and expect to be doing this quite a bit starting in the > next few weeks. I'll probably need to take a while to catch up to > developments made while I was "away", and I don't have a lot of open-source > time available to begin with, but I'm hoping I can start actually > contributing again, rather than just lurking, sometime in February. That's great! I'm not demanding people do stuff. I'm just trying to find out if there are things about the project itself that are keeping people from participating. Once we complete the move to sf.net, I'm definitely going to be asking this in a thread of its own. I think it's a question that we, as a community, need to know the answer to. > Time, mostly. And the fact that I'm somewhat behind on the code. And the > fact that I lost track of where exactly TG's repos were, back when there > were several (but Google easily remedies that). Well, the time thing is something I can't fix. But the losing track of repositories? That needs to be dealt with better this time. Just added that note to my task list, too. > Michael, I'm really wanting to help out with docs and website reorg, so if > you aren't done by the time I'm out from under my current time crunch (both > at work and out), I'll try to help out. Thank you. Maybe I should leave some things undone there just for you ;) > (Aside: It might be a good idea to make an announcement about the upcoming > "reorganization" of the project (what's happening, who's going to be > involved), once the details are ironed out. Absolutely agreed. I'll get something out there tomorrow night. It might be boring, it might be slow, but it's something. People do need to know more about what's going on with this. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Christoph Zwerschke <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that's really important. Django does this right with its weblog that is > also integrated as a sidebar on the main page. A news section is also > offered for every SourceForge project, maybe we can use that. > > And maybe some of us can also start blogging about TG again. Michael and > Chris did this some time ago and I think that was really good for the > project. It's very encouraging for the community. Unfortunately, I did not > yet find the time to set up my own blog, but I'm considering it. This just gave me some ideas. I'm going to look into getting planet.turbogears.org into the news feeds for TG on sf.net. Once that's in place, I'll make sure to kick my own blogging back to something more regular (once every "when I feel like it" doesn't make for an interesting read), and that should help to bring things to life on the news pages there. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Alessandro Molina <[email protected]> wrote: > I spoke with Chris Perkins a few days ago and I hope that he will > solve his problems soon as he doesn't deserve it! He is a great man > that did a lot for the TG community. I agree. And I feel like I never did enough to fully support him. He became overwhelmed, and I did the "So, what can I do to help" line, instead of simply *doing* things. Well, now I'm doing. Hopefully, it will be a bit more use. > Getting back at TG if there is anything I can do just ask, recently I > tried to merge Chris work for TG2.2 with the tg-dev branch and what > resulted is https://bitbucket.org/_amol_/tg-2.2/overview it probably > needs a lot of testing, but at first sight it seems to work. I *think* I've seen those changes get merged in. I'll double-check, and make sure they all get uploaded before creating the actual repository on sf.net this weekend. I want to make this as simple as possible. Oh, and in case those who know of a bad commit are reading this, I took care of it. At one point, a 30M screencast got added, and I've since removed it. We'll make sure to keep the repositories clean. > I think that we really need a lot of people interested in working on > the doc, I'm really bad at writing doc, but I recognize that it is the > most important thing for a probject to be wildy accepted. The docs matter. As does the website, as does the code. It might be my imagination, but I feel like I've seen quite a few complaints about the code in 2.1. I think I'm going to try to make 2.2 into a maintenance release, something to fix up all of these niggling little pieces that are driving people insane. And then I've got ideas for a 2.3 after that, and maybe 2.4... yeah, I've got plans. Let's get through the first part, though, and that's the transition to sf.net. The first pieces of that will start to come online this weekend. -- Michael J. 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