Although not originally planned, today we’ve released an intermediate version of peach³. There have been several important changes and fixes to warrant this new release. Most changes are related to the course management functionality.
For a full list of changes, see the changelog on trac.
The new release can be downloaded from the peach³ download page.
Thierry Schellenbach from YouTellMe.nl recently wrote on his blog that their site is probably the largest Django project in terms of codebase. Since their project isn’t open-source, it’s hard to tell if that claim is true or not.
But it got me wondering. What is the largest open-source Django-based project around?
Today we released the first “packaged” version of peach³, version 1.0-beta3.
The mercurial repository was already open for anyone interested in our project, but most people like a packaged version over a repository. Also installation documentation was lacking.
Managers like numbers. Source Lines of Code (SLoC) is such a number. Today I counted the number of sourcelines written by me for peach³.
The peach³ repository is now open for anyone interested in the project.
I still have to write installation documentation, but as it is a Django project, the installation instructions over at the djangoproject.com site also apply to peach³. Once the current version has been tested to be stable (by a couple of hundred first-year students 
) a downloadable packaged version will be released.
The peach³ public demo is now available at http://demo.peach3.nl/
Registration is open for everyone. Please read the Terms of Use before using the system.
I use South whenever a model needs to be changed. One thing that is not really documented in the South documentation is how to convert data. After some trial and error I found a way to use Django QuerySets to access both the old and new models to convert data.
A poster explaining what peach is:
After using a few other IDE’s I settled down with Eclipse with Aptana plug-in as the IDE I use for peach³ development. This one environment has support for everything I need while developing a Django application: Python, HTML and JavaScript support is great, with code completion, including completion for the Ext.js javascript library. And I even have the idea that I’m not using the full power of Eclipse yet.
In Olympiads in Informatics, 2008 vol. 2, an article was published on “Programming Task Packages: Peach Exchange Format“