Call for testing: magic-removal branch
If you've been involved at all in the Django community over the past few months, you're no doubt familiar with a sexy, yet elusive, phenomenon known as the "magic-removal branch." It's a new version of Django, begun a couple of months ago, that makes several sweeping changes to the framework to improve its usability and remove unnecessary "magic."
That branch has been marked as "for developers/hackers only" -- until now. Today we're freezing feature additions to it and encouraging people to start using it as a brief beta test. Come one, come all -- check out magic-removal and let us know if you find any bugs or other issues.
Over the next week, we'll be concentrating on fixing any remaining bugs and -- more importantly -- updating ALL of the documentation. Documentation is one of Django's strongest selling points, and we don't want to risk having inaccurate docs.
We're aiming for a merge to trunk on next Friday, April 28. (For you non-techies, that means we'll convert the main Django code repository to use the magic-removal code and switch all development permanently to that Django code base.) That should give us enough time to work on documentation and iron out last-minute bugs. We should release Django's next official release -- 0.92 -- shortly thereafter, assuming all is well.
The RemovingTheMagic wiki page has all you need to know about the magic-removal branch.
Or, you can just Google for "magic removal". Number one hit, baby! Yes, it's even above this strange magic carpet removal video and a host of Web sites for "magic" stain- and hair-removal products.
Please feel free to ask questions in IRC (#django on irc.freenode.net) or the django-developers mailing list.
Posted by Adrian Holovaty on April 20, 2006
Comments
Sean Roth April 20, 2006 at 9:56 p.m.
Nice job, Django team! You guys have a great framework here and am interested in seeing where's it's going.
Tony McDonald April 21, 2006 at 12:46 a.m.
Great news! - I've been using MR for a while now, gearing up for a production site, have found that 'explicit is better than implicit' and no bugs have bitten me.
Andreas Neumeier April 21, 2006 at 1:45 a.m.
uh, well yeah, i started testing magic-removal about two weeks ago. It looks great - but, and this may be me - the user permissions system does not create initial database entries upon application installation.
besides that, is there a "default" way for login/logout/password forgot/register pages/precedures?
Great work guys, keep going
David S. April 21, 2006 at 7:12 a.m.
Please create a 9.1-final tag. It seems to qualify as a notable_moment!
Great work and thanks to all.
Adrian Holovaty April 21, 2006 at 9:41 a.m.
David: We'll definitely tag the final version of 0.91-svn. It's notable indeed. :)
__SERF__ April 22, 2006 at 10:20 a.m.
eggzellent! congratulations indeed!
Ganjango April 22, 2006 at 7:12 p.m.
Big announcement on 4/20. I like it. I'm looking forward to the next official release, soon I hope!
Paul C. April 22, 2006 at 8:29 p.m.
Awesome, just what I've been waiting for. I've been playing with the SVN version, but it's high time I got started on my community site, and this sounds like a perfect opportunity to get my butt in gear. Thanks and congratulations!
peter April 23, 2006 at 11:10 a.m.
hi, i don't see oracle support in MR (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/87). How can i apply that patch using MR?
thanks.
keep up the good work
mdt April 29, 2006 at 3:45 p.m.
as in 0.91 verbose_name=u'Ä' does not work but everything else is working fine now for me. the wiki is really helpful. thanks alot, great work!
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Vikran Rathore April 20, 2006 at 9:33 p.m.
Any idea adrian when the 0.92 is planned. Also can I use this for my planned production work. I have been waiting for magic-removal branch since I need to port a project from asp oracle to django.