Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: django-mininews
Version: 0.5
Summary: Boilerplate for creating publishable lists of objects
Home-page: https://github.com/richardbarran/django-mininews
Author: Richard Barran
Author-email: richard@arbee-design.co.uk
License: MIT
Description: Django-mininews
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        Django-mininews is a basic tool for controlling the *publication* of objects.
        
        Let's take an example: you have a 'news' application, that just consists of a 
        Article model. In the admin interface, mininews will add this fieldset:
        
        .. image:: docs/img/mininews-fieldset.png
        
        All articles will have the following 3 fields:
        
        - status: usually 'draft' or 'published'.
        - start: start date, defaults to whenever the status is changed to ``published``.
        - end: end date; optional.
        
        Articles can only be viewed in the public website **if** they are ``published``
        **and** between the start and end dates.
        
        In addition, we have a fieldset for showing various read-only status fields:
        
        .. image:: docs/img/mininews-status-fieldset.png
        
        These can be of use for tracking changes to an Article.
        
        And that's it... Mininews is just an abstract Model, together with plenty of code - in the models,
        views, admin and sitemap - to make the best use of it, that you will reuse 
        again and again throughout a project.
        
        What can I use it for?
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        Here are some examples of Mininews at work:
        
        - `Minutes of the meetings of an association <http://www.saphra.org.uk/meetings/>`_.
        - `Controlling the publication of the Events at a well-known racetrack <http://www.silverstone.co.uk/events/>`_.
        - `Controlling when job offers are displayed <http://www.ipglobal-ltd.com/en/about/careers/>`_.
        
        Alternatives
        ------------
        There are several similar projects that take slightly different approaches 
        to publication control; usually they introduce more sophisticated control. A well-known
        example is `django-reversion <https://github.com/etianen/django-reversion>`_.
        
        Mininews is a very basic publication control tool, but works well on several production 
        websites. Its author has found it be a decent compromise between a tool that's too
        basic to be useful, and too complex to be understood by its intended end users.
        
        Installation and usage
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        Please take a look at
        `the documentation <http://django-mininews.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html>`_ on ReadTheDocs.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
