On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Dusty Phillips <buchuki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey all,
Just wanted to give you guys a quick update on the status of the archweb port. I've been working on it, its not being ignored. Its taking longer than I had originally planned because instead of just porting it to 'make it work', I've decided to update it to make it follow the newest guidelines. For those aware of django, I'm rewriting a lot of views using generic views, taking advantage of "new"forms in places where raw html forms are being used, and so on. In addition, I'm rewriting certain sections to clean them up and more or less "make them my own", and I'm also cleaning up similarities between archweb_dev and archweb_pub to ensure there is less duplicate code. I've also removed several pages in archweb_dev that I presume were copied from archweb_pub, but aren't really necessary in the developers backend. So basically, its turned into more of a refactor/rewrite than a simple port.
The net result will be substantially fewer lines of code and hopefully fewer bugs, easier and faster fixes, more familiarity with the code for me, and more exciting possibilities in the future. The bad part is that it could take quite a while to happen. I'm less than half done porting/refactoring/rewriting the archweb_dev side of things right now (in about three concerted sessions), and am uncertain as to my time availability in the future. I'm thinking of running django 1.0 and 0.96 independently so that we can have archweb_dev on 1.0 for testing and debugging while I work on the port for 0.96. This will hopefully uncover some of the bugs before it goes public and lets face it, I like it better when you guys are screaming at me than the general public. You're so much more polite even though you have the right to demand more of me. ;-)
Thanks for the update Dusty. Don't worry about the time, I don't think any of us are screaming "Oh god, Dusty better hurry up with XYZ or else I'll stab him!". 8)