[Web-SIG] http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks

[Chris McDonough]

Aaron Watters wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com>
>> wrote:
>>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks
>> seems to be the place where folks
>>> are registering their respective web frameworks.
>>>
>>> I'd like to move some of the frameworks which are
>> currently in the various
>>> categories which haven't been active in a few years.
>>  In particular, I'd
>>> like to move any framework which hasn't had a release
>> since the beginning of
>>> 2008 (arbitrary) into the "Discontinued / Inactive"
>> framework category.  I'd
>>> be willing to do the work to make sure I wasn't moving
>> one that actually
>>> *did* have releases past that but just hadn't updated
>> the page.
>>> Any dissent?
>>>
>>> - C
> 
> Why not call them "apparently stable"
> versus "under active development"?  Is the
> cgi module "discontinued"?

No, but the cgi module has undergone a lot of changes over the last couple of 
years which were present in Python releases:

http://svn.python.org/view/python/branches/release26-maint/Lib/cgi.py?view=log

> I'm a little sensitive on this topic
> because people tell me that Gadfly is "inactive"
> or "discontinued"
> but it still does what it does
> as documented very well.
> 
> Frequent releases may actually be a sign of 
> bugginess and bad design.

Agreed.  On the other hand, though, no release for two years sometimes *does* 
mean it's dead.  It's slightly unfair to the folks who are very actively 
improving a web framework to live in a "slot" on that page right next to 
actually-really-dead software because of the vagarities of lexical sorting.

> If you suspect a project is really dead, maybe you
> could try to contact the authors and ask about
> what they think.

Well, that was my intention.  I don't want to remove *actually* active or 
stable-and-still-used packages from the list.  Maybe I should just dial back 
the date to the beginning of 2007 or something.

- C