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I'm from Torchbox, the creators and maintainers of this project. It's nice to see Wagtail back on HN. For those who saw my original Show HN post a couple of mon
by tomd 12y ago
I'm from Torchbox, the creators and maintainers of this project. It's nice to see Wagtail back on HN. For those who saw my original Show HN post a couple of months ago, here's as overview of progress since then:
- Tests: stung by some of the (very reasonable) criticisms after launch, we worked hard to increase our test coverage - https://coveralls.io/r/torchbox/wagtail https://coveralls.io/r/torchbox/wagtail
- Docs: still a way to go, but our documentation is much better, and now includes an editor's manual: http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/editor_manual/ http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/editor_manual/
- Translations: we were delighted by the immediate response of translators, whose work we're managing through the excellent Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/wagtail/ https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/wagtail/
- Installation: we reduced dependencies (including Sass instead of LESS, and plain JS instead of Coffeescript, so we could drop npm); we made Redis and Elasticsearch optional; we wrote one-liners for Debian and Ubuntu; we improved the installation docs; third parties contributed Docker images.
- UI: we've continued to refine the interface, with feedback from our own clients as well as helpful strangers. In 0.3 we added the 'edit bird', a toolbar allowing logged-in users to add and edit pages from the site's front-end.
- Modularisation: Wagtail now supports alternative backends for image processing (currently PIL and Wand), searching (currently Elasticsearch and SQL) and content embedding (currently OEmbed and Embedly).
- Compatibility: we're working on Python 3 and Django 1.7 support. We've recently added tox to help us test multiple versions for thoroughly.
We're also adding features, but slowly and carefully. A form-builder and scheduled publishing should be released imminently.
We're very grateful for everyone's interest and contributions, even if it's just a harsh word on HN!
- dragop 12y agoWhen you say "translations" I assume you mean just the admin. But does Wagtail support multilingual websites (nothing seems to be in the docs)?
- tomd 12y agoYes - we're currently building a multilingual site for an international NGO - but it doesn't currently do anything clever to link different language versions of the same content; in this implementation we're simply allowing editors to reference translated pages with a page chooser UI.
- GoodGuy 12y agoI see this kind of mental limitation in the brains of many native english speaking software developers. When developing software for The Internet - a multilingual, international, multicultural communication space - how is it even possible to forget about the requirement to support multiple languages? In my courses students who do not implement multilingual support right from the beginning into their internet software, they fail. If you make it an afterwork, it will most likely never be a really good implementation. I recommend to redesign your project and implement multilingual support from step 1 - there is more to this than just linking content pages. Very disappointing.
- lefrancaiz 12y agoThank you for making all this work available to everyone.