Re: Mantissa / Nevow activity

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Ted Shab <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It is a bit difficult to assess how active these two projects are.
>
> It seems they hold great promise, and present what one would expect to be a strong alternative to other Python frameworks.
>
> However, I have to admit that the sparsity of activity seems a little unsettling to commit to using such a framework.
>
> Are these frameworks seen as primarily experimental and will someday be the genesis of some Twisted Web Framework (i.e. in a couple of years).
>
> Or are these frameworks being used in commonly and extensively?
>
> Thanks very much - hoping this comes across as pragmatic and not negative (the former is my intent).

Hey Ted,

Thanks for writing. These projects are very much active. If you go to
the trac instance's timeline, and select only the checkins, you can
see the amount of activity that is steady and on-going:
  http://divmod.org/trac/timeline?from=06%2F16%2F08&daysback=30&changeset=on&update=Update

JP has recently added some excellent optimizations for Nevow and we're
in the process of improving the developer APIs for Mantissa so that
those who want to build applications with our stuff can do so more
easily.

Perhaps most significantly, we have two production applications that
have been rolled out using Mantissa and Nevow: our divmod.com email
service (which has been running since 2003) and blendix.com, which has
been in public beta since the beginning of this year (with two private
betas in 2007).

On a personal note, since 2004, I have used Mantissa and/or Nevow in
tens of publicly hosted projects. In a consulting gig for one of the
largest public radio stations in the country, I used Divmod technology
to build a DJ library application for their massive music collection.

We are painfully aware that we need to generate updated, friendly
tutorials and screencasts of our products, and this is at the top of
our fully-packed to-do lists. But in the mean time, feel free to ask
questions, offer suggestions, etc. :-)

d