I just picked up maintainership of django-address. It is a set of models and methods for dealing with postal addresses in Django.
The product is dominant in seo and many django beginners and intermediate install it without looking at it.
But it has also languished for years and failed to get an important model rearchitecture after the author had to stop work on it.
Still, I see it as a great turnaround opportunity and I’ve already learned a lot about OS and the pressure of knowing people want code fixed.
I think this article is for the author, Luke, who made this for himself for Australian addresses when django was still a smaller framework.
But it is also for me as someone trying to get context on how it has languished so long, and motivation to steer this thing into a place where it into helping more people without undue pressure.
Glad to hear someone is picking up maintenance for this! I found it via Google a while ago and ended up forking it to make it play more nicely with Google Maps. I really appreciated the starting point though and that a lot of the heavy lifting of creating a custom model field had been done.
Right on. Please reply in the 'path forward' issue with a link to your fork. I'm interested in learning how people have taken upon themselves to improve the package.
The product is dominant in seo and many django beginners and intermediate install it without looking at it.
But it has also languished for years and failed to get an important model rearchitecture after the author had to stop work on it.
Still, I see it as a great turnaround opportunity and I’ve already learned a lot about OS and the pressure of knowing people want code fixed.
I think this article is for the author, Luke, who made this for himself for Australian addresses when django was still a smaller framework.
But it is also for me as someone trying to get context on how it has languished so long, and motivation to steer this thing into a place where it into helping more people without undue pressure.