[socal-piggies] Project collaboration proposal

[Grig Gheorghiu]

Great! pwc is not bad.

Now....the next question becomes -- which Web framework do we choose?
I vote for something that installs easily. Should we do Django, just
because many people are interested in it?

Grig

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Silfheed <silfheed at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm all for acronyms.. pwc?  pwc it is.. for now.
>
> I setup the repo which is available at http://bitbucket.org/silfheed/pwc/
>
> The commands are pretty disgustingly simple..  Very similar to github if you
> have github accounts. c&p from the site
>
> Quickstart
>
> $ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/silfheed/pwc/
> ...
> $ hg pull -u # to pull changes and update
> $ hg push # to push changes to this repo
> 						
>
> Import existing data?
>
> $ cd /path/to/existing/hg/repo/
> $ hg push http://bitbucket.org/silfheed/test/
> 						
>
> Prefer SSH?
>
> $ hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/silfheed/pwc/
> $ hg push ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/silfheed/pwc/						
>
>
> Either if we use my repo or go with a different one, we'll probably all be
> forking our own repo's from the master repo and working from there.  Once we
> have significant changes, we'll use the 'pull request' feature to let
> collaborators know to pull from our branch.  Again, all similar to github.
>
> Luke
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Grig Gheorghiu <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> pywebclient....kinda lame.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Kou <andrew.kou at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Anyone have good names in mind?
>> >
>> > - Andrew
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
>> > <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> There's no bitbucket project set up yet. Go ahead and create one if
>> >> you want -- choose a good name ;-)
>> >>
>> >> I haven't personally played with bitbucket or mercurial, so if you do
>> >> create a project and check some files in, please send some
>> >> instructions to the list on how to check out the files, how to commit
>> >> modifications locally, commit back to bitbucket, etc.
>> >>
>> >> Grig
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Silfheed <silfheed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > I'm willing to put some work into it, and I've got a bit of free time
>> >> > as
>> >> > well.  I'll get a bitbucket account.  Is there a bitbucket repo/wiki
>> >> > etc
>> >> > setup somewhere?
>> >> >
>> >> > Luke
>> >> >
>> >> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Grig Gheorghiu
>> >> > <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> OK, good to hear that people are interested. I don't think that the
>> >> >> project being short is a drawback. I believe in instant
>> >> >> gratification
>> >> >> ;-) Getting something like this done quickly (hopefully) will give
>> >> >> us
>> >> >> an appetite for more projects.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Grig
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Mark Ferrer <mvferrer at gmail.com>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Although I'm quite busy at the moment, I'd be interested in
>> >> >> > contributing
>> >> >> > something to a project like this whenever I can. I agree with
>> >> >> > Andrew
>> >> >> > about
>> >> >> > it feeling like a short term thing, but it's a good start (at
>> >> >> > least
>> >> >> > it'll be
>> >> >> > easy to complete).
>> >> >> > +1 vote for me.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > - Mark
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Andrew Kou <andrew.kou at gmail.com>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Hi everyone,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> I wouldn't mind working on a project like that. I believe Hurl
>> >> >> >> was
>> >> >> >> actually a Rails Rumble project (48 coding session/competition).
>> >> >> >> Also,
>> >> >> >> I
>> >> >> >> think one of the creators, Leah Culver also codes in Python and
>> >> >> >> wrote a
>> >> >> >> oAuth library in Python. (Just some random information I happen
>> >> >> >> to
>> >> >> >> know)
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Anyhow, I am in if you guys decide on going forward with it. One
>> >> >> >> issue
>> >> >> >> I'd
>> >> >> >> like to bring up is that this seems to me to be a relatively
>> >> >> >> short
>> >> >> >> term
>> >> >> >> project but who knows, maybe that's how we should go about doing
>> >> >> >> projects to
>> >> >> >> keep things interesting.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> - Andrew
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
>> >> >> >> <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
>> >> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> I've looked at http://hurl.it/ lately as a tool to exercise Web
>> >> >> >>> Service APIs via a browser interface. It's a pretty good tool,
>> >> >> >>> and
>> >> >> >>> you
>> >> >> >>> can also install it locally, but...it's written in Ruby.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> I think a great project for our group to collaborate on could be
>> >> >> >>> to
>> >> >> >>> create something similar in Python, but with even more
>> >> >> >>> functionality.
>> >> >> >>> For example, I couldn't find a way to specify the HTTP request
>> >> >> >>> body
>> >> >> >>> for a POST request -- which is often needed when passing JSON
>> >> >> >>> data
>> >> >> >>> to
>> >> >> >>> the Web service API. In general, this would be a very useful
>> >> >> >>> testing
>> >> >> >>> and debugging tool. I've googled around to see if there's
>> >> >> >>> anything
>> >> >> >>> like it in Python, but I found nothing. As a full disclosure, I
>> >> >> >>> actually need a tool like this at Evite...so we'd have our first
>> >> >> >>> customer right off the bat ;-)
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> What do you think? If we have even a few people willing to
>> >> >> >>> collaborate
>> >> >> >>> on this, I think we can achieve one of our learning goals. We
>> >> >> >>> can
>> >> >> >>> create a project on bitbucket.org for example, and learn
>> >> >> >>> mercurial
>> >> >> >>> too
>> >> >> >>> in the process.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Let me know what you think.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Grig
>> >> >> >>>
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