For long time core devs wanted to use support the common denominator (svn) and let users choose their frontend (hg-svn, git-svn, svk).

Now they realised that github presence will raise number of contributors.

I stopped following Django more than a year ago but lack of contributors was never an issue; quite the contrary. A bigger problem was the unresponsiveness of the (tiny) core team to the occasional contributors providing patches and raising bugs, often left open for months and years. Hopefully things move faster now with more devs being entrusted with the commit bit.

I hope it will too. Particularly now that Adrian Holovaty is back as a more active BDFL.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss (the other BDFL) wrote a bit about the changes in the core team over the last couple of years in his "Measuring the Django Community" review:

http://jacobian.org/writing/django-community/django-communit...

The core team has grown a lot in 2012: 33 partial committers and 28 full committers.

This should not feel special at all. :-/

I wish you could go to any govt office in any of EU countries and do your business in English.

oddly enough, in the UK most forms and leaflets relating to council and government services are available in a range of languages from Polish to Chinese. As a brit, I take a small amount of pride in that.

I've spent some years in Scotland and I was amazed with how robust and effective most govt services were (at least ones I've used). Poland and Austria (were I lived, too) are nowhere near that.

Why? Django (trunk) has new files layout.

    $ django-admin.py startproject testo 
    $ cd testo
    $ ./manage.py startapp testapp

    $ tree                                                                                                    
    .
    ├── manage.py
    ├── testapp
    │   ├── __init__.py
    │   ├── models.py
    │   ├── tests.py
    │   └── views.py
    └── testo
        ├── __init__.py
        ├── settings.py
        ├── urls.py
        └── wsgi.py

...You know, this actually makes a heck of a lot more sense. Hopefully they'll follow it up with some more docs on how you can develop with virtualenv and the like.

Looks especially like http://opencomparison.org/ :D

Hah! Yeah I just noticed that after the fact, even though I've been to that site numerous times :-\

No. There are 307 top-level domains right now and ICANN has added several dozen top-level domains in the last year and your regexp is probably already broken. You can be sure anyone using regular expressions has not been matching them correctly for some time. If you are using regexps, you're doing it wrong.

Legacy is a drag on any system. It has to be supported for those who followed best practices but not for those who followed worst practices. Don't hold progress back for them.

Funny, but email validations should already just check that the address contains an @ symbol and leave it at that.

uh, nope. Email validation should check there's a valid MX record for the domain in question, and leave it at that.

Or a valid address record. Mailers fall back to 'A' records in the absence of a 'MX' record.

yes, and we could continue into checking something is actually listening for mail there, etc. But you get my point :)

They should also check that neither part is empty. But other than that you are right.

Humble bundle did this.

I'm happy to see Polish researchers doing something people will buy. Major problem for Polish science is lack of commercial opportunities.

Because start-up require people to do all kind of stuff. You'll learn front-end and (some) back-end and will have bigger picture, which generally is "A Good Thing".

I currently work at a largish consulting firm and get all those things, plus I don't have to settle for "long hours and low pay". Perhaps "work at a company that lets you work on interesting problems and learn new skills" would be far better advice. There is no reason why that has to be a start-up, nor is there a guarantee that a start-up will give you those things.

True, there's no guarantee. There's no guarantee that you'll find "work at a company that lets you work on interesting problems and learn new skills". Everything here is subjective. :]

After "Jenny DryErase" hoax it's hard to believe in sincerity of this. Especially because it's written too well.

I don't think we're supposed to believe this is meant seriously. But it's a nice pun on what is probably an all-too common problem :)

I think I know this Ilana. She's in my class at Amherst College.

I KNOW I know this Ilana. She does go to Amherst. This is no hoax.

Zach! Get your act together! Ilana > Computer!