I have been speaking with some friends and heavy web2py users and we agree that the following issue need to be addressed:
1) Improve Mercurial and Git support. Currently Git+web2py allows "clone" and "push" whirl Hg+web2py allows "commit", "status" and "revert". I think we need an abstraction layer that allows "clone", "push", "commit", "status", "revert", and "pull" with both the version control system (with a preference for Git). I think we need an abstraction layer on top of both VCS even if for now we may support only one of them. 2) Handle gthub callback so that a push to github triggers a local web2py pull (for testing) 3) make it easier to run tests and manage databases (rename, backup, etc) at the click of a button. 4) Bootstrap looks great but it is not consistent throughout the welcome app. The idea is that this should be edited in web2py.css instead of any python code to allow backwards compatibility. Also we should avoid changing bootstrap.css so that we can just drop-in new versions of bootstrap, and or bootswatches. So we need someone with good CSS skills. It shouldn't be too much extra work to make it look great out of the box. 5) Port admin on top of bootstrap (while preserving the artwork). If you want to work on any of these topics, there may be funding available. I think 1) should be a priority for web2py 2.1 or 2.2. P.S. Friends have suggested looking to the following links: Here are some issues and examples of what is possible from wrapbootstrap.com templates: 1. Web2py forms: they are using no styling webkit (see registration/login/password reset). (Example: http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB00U99JJ/login.html 2. Navbar has "login/logout/password" which seems to be styled differently that the other menu items. (Nice dropdown example: http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0087188/account.html) 3. Form Validation: would be nice to use bootstrap form validation perhaps with popovers overriding of the the redflash for incomplete forms. (Example: http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0F35928/form-validation.html ) 4. Notifications: Use Bootstrap notifications for flash, overriding the web2py growl notifications. (Lot's of options here: http://wbpreview.com/previews/WB0881879/noty.html) --
