Hi folks, In the run up to PyCon, followed by PyCon itself, I've been a bit more disconnected here than I would like. We're 7 days in to March and I'm only #6 on the list of emailers this month! In some ways that's a good sign, because the community has grown so much beyond just me. But, on the other hand, we're at a really exciting point right now and I want to be sure that I'm doing a good job of letting everyone know what's going on.
I'm angling for the next fabulous TurboGears release, "amazing" (aka 0.9a2), to be out either late this week or early next. Cliff Wells tells me that he still has some TurboGears hosting packages he can give away, so I may nominate some more bugs for the bug bounty. Let's see how quickly we can clean up 0.9 and get it to beta and out the door! If you find yourself with a little time, I'd encourage you to adopt a bug. Even if you have no idea how TG works on the inside, there are many here that would be happy to help point the way so that you can learn more about it and fix a bug in the process. There's work to be done still on the new TurboGears website. The "Learn" section that has all of the marketing materials definitely needs to be punched up for the new release, and the docs need more work as well. The website is built from XHTML files, so if you want to help out there, it's really easy to do so with whatever your HTML weapon of choice may be. On the subject of documentation, I happy to see that the Docudo project is attracting some new folks since we kickstarted it at PyCon. Docudo is a Subversion-backed wiki-like system specifically for software projects. The mailing list is here: http://groups.google.com/group/docudo. With luck, Docudo will have a Docudo-based website soon :) Concurrently with all of that, the groundwork was laid at PyCon for the next major release of TurboGears (codename "First Class"). First Class will simplify certain aspects of TurboGears code while greatly improving the ability to reuse TurboGears apps and easy install middleware for a variety of functions (eg. caching and exception handling). First Class makes heavy use of WSGI and takes advantage of and builds on TurboGears 0.9's config system. I'm hoping that there are some others out there who'd like to work on this branch. It's really cool stuff, and there are quite a few neat things we can do in there. The TurboGears mailing list gets very heavy traffic. As 0.9 nears completion and starts getting more publicity, the traffic here may increase a bit more. I'm reluctant to break the list into "devel" and 'users" lists. My concern is that it's important for developers of TG (like myself) to see what's going on on the users list. My guess is that most users would like to know what's coming down the line as well, rather than having that discussion split off into a separate list. The only advantage to a split would seem to be easy separation by mail clients. What do you think? I've got a couple of bike shed moments to fire up separately next. Kevin -- Kevin Dangoor Author of the Zesty News RSS newsreader email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: http://www.BlazingThings.com blog: http://www.BlueSkyOnMars.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
