Compound Thinking

TurboGears Momentum

I’ve been swamped at work for the last week, and I’ve gotten a little bit behind in watching the TurboGears mailing list, commit log, ticket tracking list. I just discovered that there have been over 100 commits since last Tuesday. For those of you counting, that’s well over 10% of the total so far in the life of TurboGears. Now that’s what I call gathering steam for 0.9 and 1.0!

Most of the attention has been on the TurboGears Widgets, and refining the API, making them thread safe — well giving you errors if you do un-thread safe things — and polishing them up for the 0.9 alpha release which should be coming soon. But there has also been work on error handling, and improvements to unit testing in the default install, bugfixes, and a whole host of other interesting commits.

I’ll be digesting all of this shiny new goodness in the Virgin Islands for the next 6 days, with limited or no internet access. But I’m looking forward to what the next week will bring.

I know a lot of people have been looking at the state of web frameworks for Python recently, and I believe that a wide array of choices is not a bad thing. The more great frameworks we have, the more people will be able to find something that fits their needs and their style. We don’t have to kill innovation on the edges in order to feed the momentum of a single project. We just need to focus on building frameworks that are easy to use, easy to extend, and make some significant set of developers jump up and down with joy.