[TIP] PythonTestingToolsTaxonomy: link to Selenium bindings for Python

Paul Hildebrandt Paul.Hildebrandt at disneyanimation.com
Tue Aug 23 21:48:18 PDT 2011


Some of these issues were already solved with how djangopackages.com 
presents packages.  Maybe we could look at something like that?


On 08/23/2011 06:24 PM, Laura Creighton wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> I'm happy to spend some time cleaning this up, but I thought we should
>> discuss how this should be done. For example, what should happen to
>> stuff that appears to be unmaintained? A separate section at the
>> bottom somewhere, or just delete it? And do we really want links that
>> are just source code and nothing more?
> I don't want things that appear to be unmaintained to be deleted.
> I'm pretty hostile to the notion that somehting needs to have
> active development in order to be useful, and I think that is
> what you would be detecting.  Some things may not have changed
> since 2004 because nothing needed changing since 2004 -- plugins
> in particular.
>
> Links to source code, even if that is all that is there, is useful for
> people who want to develop something and want to check how other
> people have already done it.  Sometimes an old project can get new
> maintainers this way, when somebody discovers that it is easier to
> work with something that already exists than to start all over from
> scratch.
>
> But separating things out so that people can easily find
> the packages that are under development sounds reasonable.  It
> would be very good, at this point, to also include a note about
> how stable the apis are.  Some projects are under _too_ active
> development for general use at this point, and people will
> be quite annoyed when they find that the apis and/or the
> behaviour changes with every release.
>
> Laura
>
>> Regards,
>> Geoff
>>
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