I've been playing with Autumn, a Object Relational Mapper by Jared Kuolt. First, I can recommend it, highly. It took me less time to get it up and running and start doing useful things with it than to get through the first sections of the documentation for any of the other ORMs for Python out there.
Second, an interesting thought reading some of the comments on old posts when Jared first announced Autumn. Several comments saw no reason to release a new package, feeling more or less strongly, that the open source way is to jump on to one of the existing projects. This to me is very wrong-headed.
Part of the power of open source is from the willingness to throw out something because you don't have a tremendous revenue or sunk cost number associated with -- and to start over again using what you learned from the first effort.
Second, an interesting thought reading some of the comments on old posts when Jared first announced Autumn. Several comments saw no reason to release a new package, feeling more or less strongly, that the open source way is to jump on to one of the existing projects. This to me is very wrong-headed.
Part of the power of open source is from the willingness to throw out something because you don't have a tremendous revenue or sunk cost number associated with -- and to start over again using what you learned from the first effort.
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