Congratulations Tom. This trend of crowdfunding development for Django and Python projects should be copied by other communities. It's amazing how much high quality work is coming out of it.
Django REST framework 3.0
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Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#12Congratulations!
Any update on how the money was spent? I found: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest...
and that all sounds very reasonable. Personally[1] I wouldn't mind the dev(s) just pocketing the money -- but was there an update on "budget"?
[1] One might quip that that's easy to say, as I didn't back this particular project. I've backed a few other KSs, though -- and I can say that in all of those, I've/I'd generally been happy if the originators(?) kept any extra money (as long as the delivered on the goals, of course)
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#13I'm loving this Kickstarter model for major open source software. Just in the Django community we're getting incredibly high quality work between migrations in Django 1.7, Django REST Framework 3.0, and the PostgreSQL extensions Kickstarters. I've only been paying attention to the Django world with these Kickstarters, but is this catching on in any other sphere of software development (Ruby, Java, .NET)?
There was recently an Indiegogo project for improving the template engine in Django too.
The main thing is to make them swappable, which will be great: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/multiple-template-engines...
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#14Congratulations! Any update on how the money was spent? I found: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... and that all sounds very reasonable. Personally[1] I wouldn't mind the dev(s) just pocketing the money -- but was there an update on "budget"? [1] One might quip that that's easy to say, as I didn't back this particular project. I've backed a few other KSs, though -- and I can say that in a…
So why are you asking?
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#15Congratulations! Any update on how the money was spent? I found: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... and that all sounds very reasonable. Personally[1] I wouldn't mind the dev(s) just pocketing the money -- but was there an update on "budget"? [1] One might quip that that's easy to say, as I didn't back this particular project. I've backed a few other KSs, though -- and I can say that in a…
Seems pretty clear from that linked post: Tom is going to use/used the money to support his time spent working on the project. And extra funds will be used/have been used to devote more time than he'd otherwise be able to spend.
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#16Congratulations! Any update on how the money was spent? I found: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... and that all sounds very reasonable. Personally[1] I wouldn't mind the dev(s) just pocketing the money -- but was there an update on "budget"? [1] One might quip that that's easy to say, as I didn't back this particular project. I've backed a few other KSs, though -- and I can say that in a…
> Any update on how the money was spent?
So this is only 1/3 of the Kickstarter to date. The two stretch goals are planned as releases 3.1 and 3.2.
We were significantly overfunded, and I'll treat the extra time/budget flexibly depending on whatever seems highest priority, but it's mostly going towards ensuring I've got headroom for keeping the quality bar super high. (Plus extra time available for general support, triage, etc...)
For transparency I plan to be ending up with treating 10% of the amount received as profit - the rest of the funding is simply covering the costs for the time I'm not working on client projects at DabApps (minus Kickstarter's cut and some taxes of course).
I probably won't give a full time-spent breakout of how long each task has taken, I've not had requests from backers to do that, and not doing so frees me up to spend it however I think best without feeling like I need to justify things on a blow-by-blow basis.
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#17Woo!
Amazing stuff, and very exciting
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#18 I really appreciate it. DRF is awesome.
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#19Great job, congratulations!!! Since author is here, would like to ask quick question, does this version support saving m2m relation data and, if yes,how does it handle failed related model saving, does it uses transaction at the beginning of request?
Re: Django REST framework 3.0
#20Great job, congratulations!!! Since author is here, would like to ask quick question, does this version support saving m2m relation data and, if yes,how does it handle failed related model saving, does it uses transaction at the beginning of request?
Yes it does, but probably best to take this sort of thing onto the discussion group... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-rest-framewor...