We’ll be opening an IRC channel shortly.
Read the page on contributions.
We do formal tests on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE8, and IE9.
We’ve done a lot of work to make it as straightforward as possible. At PyCon 2011 we launched our formal Repo Handler API.
We have a very successful installation story for development and production hosting using virtualenv. While buildout is a wonderful tool we simply don’t want to spend the time supporting two installation methods. Therefore:
If you are using something else besides Ubuntu, Mac OS X 10.6, or Windows 7, you obviously have mad skills. We have a very successful installation story for development on three very common operating systems and production hosting is assumed to be on Ubuntu. Trying to support more than those operating systems is a HUGE amount of time taken away from making improvements - especially since the core developers insist on testing everything themselves.
The effort to support databases besides PostGreSQL was hampered for long time, all caused by a third party package we’re not going to identify that caused grief in the use of fixtures. This was a significant issue in Open Comparison, and used up a lot of development cycles.
So we use a Mock system of creating sample data in our tests and for running a development version of the site. To create some development data, just run:
python manage.py load_dev_data
They don’t have an API. We’ve filed ticket #5088 and we hope the nice people there can close it in the near future. Google is part of the open source world and we would love to support projects using their hosting services.
Open Comparison doesn’t track a project’s tickets/issues.
Too brittle for our tastes. The Google Project hosting site uses a lot of JavaScript and AJAX to deliver content. Besides, we would like to think our fellow developers at Google will provide us with a really awesome, well-documented, stable API.