Prosthetic Conscience

stockphoto on bitbucket

So, development of stockphoto, my Django-based photo gallery application has been languishing for a long time. Like, three years long. Like since Django 0.96 long. Mostly, that was kind of okay, because it is a tiny application, and it was working perfectly within its limited domain, until the release of Django 1.0. I had been wanting to fix it up before the Django 1.0 release, but never got a round tuit.

After my daughter was born, I needed to use it to show baby pictures to our family, so I had the motivation to at least fix stockphoto up to work with a current Django release. This is done; it mainly involved fixing up the model code, switching to forms from oldforms, fixing up the URLs, and fixing zipfile import to work with the new upload API. I have put the fixed code on bitbucket. If you pull from tip at that repository, or download a snapshot of tip from the downloads page, you will have a stockphoto package that works on Django 1.0.

This isn’t quite a release though; it needs a few cleanups before I can push out an 0.3 release:

1. Update documentation
2. Since there were some small model changes, I need to provide a way of migrating from 0.2.1. I am leaning towards South for providing this.
3. Remove dead code

There won’t be any new features in stockphoto 0.3 except for non-browseable galleries (which is already in bitbucket, since I wanted it for my daughter’s site). I’m tentatively planning a 0.4 release that will have the features originally intended (since so many years ago) for 0.3, plus some suggested to me in email.

If you’re interested in using stockphoto, please follow it on bitbucket, and send me any patches you find useful.

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