Jannis Leidel

Im Zuge des diesjährigen Linuxtages würden wir uns gern am Freitag, 30. Mai 2008, 17:00 Uhr mit anderen Django-Benutzern und -Entwicklern treffen und gemeinsam gekühlte Getränke genießen. Treffpunkt ist vor dem Haupteingang.

We’d like to take the opportunity of this year’s Linuxtag to meet on Friday, May 30, 2008 5:00 PM with other Django users and developers to have an informal meetup and some cold beverages. The gathering place is in front of the main entrance.

UPCOMING, VENTERIA

After visiting this year’s awesome Pycon in Chicago I’m very looking forward to attend another major event of the Python community: Europython 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania. The flight and accommodation is surprisingly inexpensive, so if you are not sure about attending here are some other good reasons.

The call for participation went out in April and promises to bring us all a great conference. If you have a good idea for a talk or a lightning talk, want to be in touch with other developers of your favorite Python software in an open space or just like to hang out with nice people please consider participating. Since Europython is a community conference you decide what will happen!

Django sprint?

As you may know EuroPython is divided in a conference and a sprint part. Like other occasions in the past (like Pycon) I think there is a good chance we can hold a Django sprint if enough people join. And I think on the way to Django 1.0 it’s a good time to fix bugs, work on documentation, test edge cases, discuss new features, work on reusable apps and do other fantastic things with Django. We all have seen what the queryset-refactor brought us, so let’s meet to work on the rest of list.

If you are interested please leave a comment here or come to the #django-sprint IRC channel to discuss things further.

UPDATE

Yay, apparently Europython’s registration opened today!

Since version 3.56 Virtualmin Pro is slowly gaining support for Python based web applications because it includes an official install script for Django. This makes my version of a Django install script slightly unnecessary, even though the official version only supports stable releases (0.96.1) and not the SVN trunk (which we all know is quite common in Djangoland). Anyway, I think this is great news.

Other Python based web applications also benefit from the official Django install script of course because there are some helpful features in Virtualmin’s codebase now. Which brings us to:

Trac

Virtualmin already does a great job managing Subversion repositories for virtual servers but misses an install scripts for a web application that makes working with these repositories easier later in daily work. Since I really like Trac for its ease of use, powerful features and ubiquity in the developer scene I wrote an install script for it: trac.pl.

Just put it in /etc/webmin/virtual-server/scripts/ and go to the “Install script” section. Keep in mind that you need to create the repositories (important: with “Allow anonymous read access?” set to yes) and give the users the appropriate rights to access the SVN repositories before.

I used a server running Debian Etch and Virtualmin Pro 3.56 to build that and would love to hear what experience you have with it.