Django Core Dev Panel¶
by cast of thousands
Alex Gaynor
- First code was a test
- Isn’t excited by the reinvention of things
Andrew Godwin
- Wrote a breakout clone
- Finds web based games interesting
Carl Meyer
- Ice hockey
- first code was a patch
- likes playing with Haskell
Chris Beaven
- async fan of eventlet, node, etc
Gary Wilson
- Learned on TurboPascal in high school
Gabriel Hurly
- First wrote a log parser in Perl
- Open Stack fan!
Idan Gazit
- finds backbone.js exciting
- Doesn’t like sproutcore cause it tries to change your system entirely
Jacob Kaplan-Moss
- BDFL
- Farming
- Apple ][ basic code just like me!
James Bennett
Joseph Cochrane
- Riak
- Geographical data into distributed systems
Julien Philip
- Soccer, Rugy
- First code was a calculator
Justin Bronn
- Linux kernal hacking
Karen Tracy
- Played with Basic on the IBM PC
- Rescues kittens
Paul McMillon
Russ Keith-Magee
- His little kids rock
- Wrote a line based basic game on the Commodore 64
- Excited by the change in the platform
What about App Refactor?¶
Note
Zoned out and missed this one. Argh
- infrastructure API has been cooked up
- configurable foreign key
New community roles¶
- Security Manager: Makes Django to be more secure
- Front end BDFL: Makes Django prettier
- No one should be irreplaceable
How about Django on other interpreters?¶
- Alex Gaynor is also core dev on CPython and PyPy and says it works
- JKM asks about any issues with Django on Iron Python
Talking on django-dev¶
- be decent
- Don’t just +1 or -1 that doesn’t give them any knowledge
- Explain why you are sharing your opinion
Code of conducts¶
- JKM: Django community ought to have a written code of conduct
- The Django core dev leadership is very approachable
How can the Django third-party ecosphere be managed?¶
Miguel Araujo wanted to know if we can manage the community of third-party world. Cause some packages are just unmaintained
Possible ideas:
- unmaintained code could fall out of ownership
- How do you maintain/control a community of volunteer projects?
- Core devs are already overloaded
- The DSF can give Django Packages and other projects more support