nensskel 1.32

Skeleton for Nelen & Schuurmans projects

Company-centricity

Nensskel originates at Nelen & Schuurmans, so we've of course set it up just the way we like it. And we change it the way we like it.

It does, however, give you a good example for full django applications/sites with a complete setup. For example, the django sites come with a full-blown nginx config. And django-staticfiles is included for the easy css/js setup.

Example for your own skeleton

When you want to create your own skeleton, nensskel can be a nice, small example. Just download the .tar.gz and unpack it.

Do the regular python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout and you're set up. The nensskel and paster script are created in the bin/ directory.

There's one python script in nensskel/*.py per template. The actual templates are in nensskel/templates/*. See http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html for some limited documentation on what paster can do. If you want more elaborate examples: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/ZopeSkel/trunk/ is the most elaborate set of templates available.

Development and issue tracker

Nensskel is developed on github: https://github.com/lizardsystem/nensskel .

The issue tracker is there, too: https://github.com/lizardsystem/nensskel/issues .

1.32 (2013-02-18)

• Bugfix: there was still a buildout-versions in the lizardsite template.

1.31 (2013-02-15)

• Upgraded nensskel's own setup to buildout 2.0.
• Updated nose/coverage test setup in the generated projects and in ourselves.
• Added pydev support also to lib/djangoapp buildouts instead of only to the site buildout.
• Updated lizardsite demo fixture to the latest lizard-wms.

1.30 (2013-02-11)

• Added buildout 2.0!
• Added a django-session-cleanup-cronjob part for production and staging, which cleans old sessions in the database.
• Added nose coverage report setup. And included mock by default.
• Added __future__ imports everywhere for print statements and unicode. Everywhere except django settings, btw, as that weirdly breaks the testrunner!

1.29 (2012-10-11)

• The library buildout.cfg now also extends the latest KGS; this prevents problems with mismatched buildout versions.

1.28 (2012-10-11)

• Fixed license header (small tweak only: it pointed to LICENSE.txt instead of the .rst one).
• Added max log size of 10MB to the logrotate script in the lizard site template.

1.27 (2012-09-24)

• Added lizard-wms (and lizard-maptree) to the lizardsite template. Almost every site needs them and it makes the empty site more suited for demo purposes and experimenting.

1.26 (2012-06-28)

• Fixed small issues in the lizardsite template:
  • Added auto-checkout plus explanation to its buildout config.
  • Generated random password for the production/staging databases.
  • Using site name as database name.

1.25 (2012-06-26)

• Git instructions are now printed after generating the project (if we're not generating an svn project). It assumes nens/lizardsystem github URLs (which you can change, of course).
• Added more example imports to views.py and models.py, for instance the ugettext/ugettext_lazy import. And the lizard-ui and lizard-map base class based views.
• Added example class based view configuration in urls.py.
• Added admin.py.
• Added the from __future__ import unicode_literals import to use unicode everywhere.
• Updated .gitignore: we now ignore the nginx config files instead of the not-used-anymore apache ones.

1.24 (2012-06-19)

• Added nensskel version number to the generated 'initial generation' changelog entry.
• Removed TODO.rst from all the templates. We don't actually use it.
• Added configuration for testing on travis.
• Using url() instead of tuples in the url patterns again. Plus fixed syntax error there.
• Updated lizardsite skeleton to latest server configuration and fabfile.
• Added stagingsettings.py, staging.cfg
• Made tests work

1.22 (2011-12-08)

• Added a templates/ subdirectory to the djangoapp.
• Renamed media/ dir in djangoapp to static/ to match Django 1.3.

1.21 (2011-11-15)

• Using latest and greatest server setup. Including nginx and sitesetup.

1.20 (2011-10-21)

• Added MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT to the djangoapp template. The debugmode urlpatterns loaded in urls.py fail with a traceback otherwise.

1.19 (2011-10-18)

• Updated the .coveragerc to be more complete.

1.18 (2011-10-18)

• Not git-ignoring *.mo files by default: django doesn't compile them on the fly, so they need to be included with the source code.
• Using 'graft' option in the MANIFEST.in to just include everything in our project directory. .pyc/pyo files are excluded anyway, so this is more or less OK.

1.17 (2011-09-30)

• Important bugfix: the "hidden" .something files weren't being generated. They are now.

1.16 (2011-09-09)

• Added git ignore file and basic MANIFEST.in to the templates.
• Removed unneeded lizard-ui middleware as django 1.3's logging handles it.
• Adjusted context processors to django 1.3's default list.
• Added logging setup for sentry in the lizard site template.
• Cleaned up the urls.py from djangoapp.

1.15 (2011-08-25)

• Added the KGS to djangoapp and sites and updated for django 1.3.
• Removed map_settings from lizardsite settings.py.
• Commented out wsgiimmportscript in apache conf (it gives an error).
• Added lizard-map context processor (outcommented) in lizardsite settings.py.

1.14 (2011-05-30)

• Adding deadlock-timeout and especially display-name to the wsgi config. The deadlock might help with shapefiles clogging up the server. The display-name shows you which server is actually using up the CPU/mem instead of just showing 'apache2'.

1.13 (2011-05-23)

• Re-release of 1.12 as that download tarball was broken.
• Adding django.contrib.gis to the INSTALLED_APPS lists as that's needed for south migrations of geo fields.
• nens_djangoapp's testsettings.py was missing an import os.

1.12 (2011-04-13)

• Modifying the middleware to include SentryResponseErrorIdMiddleware.

1.11 (2011-04-13)

• Added django-sentry to the Lizardsite template.
• Adding new file setup.py_tmpl to Lizardsite template.
• Updating +package+/settings.py_tmpl which adds sentry to INSTALLED_APPS.

1.10 (2011-03-31)

• Adding mostly-empty READMEs to the two empty 'fixtures' and 'media/+package+' dirs in the django app template. On some machines, the empty directories were not getting created. This way they are.
• Svn-ignoring the doc/build directory (with sphinx output).
• Added svn revert instructions for testsettings.py in the website template (in addition to removing the file).

1.9 (2011-03-02)

• Small restructured text heading level fixes for the sphinx documentation.

1.8 (2011-02-01)

• Removed buildout usage part from the readme.rst as it gets repeated lots of times all over the place this way.
• Added matplotlib tweaks to the django site settings.py.
• Added django-extensions to the standard dependencies of django apps so that we can get a model graph.

1.7 (2011-01-19)

• Added sphinx setup. Also swapped the .txt files for .rst ones.

1.6.1 (2010-12-03)

• Fixed too-restrictive regex in apache's openlayers AliasMatch: the openlayers css/icons now also work in the root of the site...

1.6 (2010-12-03)

• Added sysegg part to the buildouts.

1.5 (2010-12-03)

• Printing .egginfo directory removal instructions.
• Updated list of standard svn:ignores.
• Added django gzip middleware to the lizardsite template.
• Added lizard-ui's traceback logging middleware to lizardsite.
• Added lizard-map's map settings to the django settings.py in lizardsite.
• Removed windows apache configuration.
• Added gzip ("mod_deflate") for js/css in the apache config.
• Eternally caching the django-compressor combined js/css files.
• Added logging setup to lizardsite.
• Added 500.html and 404.html to lizardsite template.
• Added openlayers img/ and theme/ aliases to compensate for openlayers' weirdness.
• Added extra part to the lizardsite buildout for automatic bin/django build_static running so we won't ever forget to do that.
• Updated database settings to new django multiple databases style.

1.4 (2010-10-15)

• Added setup.cfg that tells nose to output xml test reports for use with Hudson.
• Fixes to the test setup of django_app.

1.3 (2010-10-01)

• Added copyright notice at the top of every file including pointer to the LICENSE.txt GPL file. No, I'm not copy/pasting 10 unneeded lines of GPL boilerplate into every file.

1.2 (2010-08-25)

• Bootstrap.py adjustments: using the 1.4.x buildout one for now.

1.1.1 (2010-08-10)

• Documentation update.

1.1 (2010-08-10)

• Changed test setup of djangoapp and lizardsite to match Reinout's latest experiments :-)

1.0 (2010-08-03)

• Added coverage support both to nensskel itself and to the templates.

0.5 (2010-08-02)

• Added django compressor settings to the lizardsite template.
• Added lizard-ui as a standard dependency for django applications.

0.4 (2010-05-20)

• Removed ipython as it regularly fails to download, sadly. Can be re-added after buildout gains a timeout setting (in the .cfg files).

0.3 (2010-03-22)

• Django STATIC_URL/MEDIA_URL clarification and usage improvement after discussion on http://bitbucket.org/jezdez/django-staticfiles/issue/12/
• Added apache config (with a separate one for windows that still needs some work).

0.2 (2010-02-12)

• Django fixes after using skeleton in real life.

0.1 (2010-02-11)

• Added nensskel script as a handy wrapper around paster create.
• Added lizardsite skeleton (which needs checking and probably modifications).
• Added djangoapp skeleton.
• Added library skeleton.
• Added test that creates instances of all skeletons and runs their bin/buildout. Smoke test: switch everything on and see if smoke comes out.
• Reinout copied relevant parts from the thaskel and zestskel that he made for the two previous companies he worked for.