Re: [pygame] starting the rewrite

[René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Marcus von Appen <mva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On, Fri May 01, 2009, Nicholas Dudfield wrote:
>>
>> Has everyone decided that Django is to be used?
>
> From my perspective it was (more or less) settled to go with Django, if
> Julian and Orcun (and pretty much everyone else, who wants to work on
> the rewrite) are more comfortable with it than with something else.
>
> As far as I can see, noone else explicitly voted against it, but instead
> cherrypy was mentioned as an alternative.
> Personally, as I can read from Julian's and Orcun's GSoC proposals, they
> have a lot of ideas with Django and how to implement the website with
> it.
>
> In order to have a solid solution, I strongly support Django here for
> the obvious (already mentioned) reasons of having two skilled developers
> for it.
>
> Regards
> Marcus
>


hi,


the discussion never reached a conclusion for me... code just started
being written.

When the website rewrite process started in late January, cherrypy was
suggested by pymike.
http://groups.google.com/group/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/browse_thread/thread/34a561e3ac7ebc26/1b36d71a37af7216

Also in the rewrite thread cherrypy was suggested by me and Nicholas.
Other people have said they were happy with either.  We also got a
promise of support from the main author of cherrypy in case we have
any nasty problems, and there was another offer of help from another
person on the cherrypy mailing list to actually help writing the
website.

There are more than just two people interested in joining the website rewrite.

I think there are more of the most active pygame contributors
interested in contributing to a cherrypy based website.


Since the other website rewrite has been started without concluding
our discussion,  I too am just going to go forward and write a new
website for pygame.org.

As one of the people who has been maintaining pygame for a long time,
and who has also made some(small) changes to the current website code,
and written many pages on the website - I hope other people join the
cherrypy based effort.


May the best website win!


cu,