Can we extend the final entry deadline too?

[riskable]

I haven't been seriously working on PyCI for the past week or so because I don't want to waste my time on meaningless-to-me contest requirements if I'm not a finalist. Since the finalist announcement is being extended a few days can we get a few more days tacked on to the final due date for the contest?

If I'm not a finalist I'll be taking PyCI in a new direction... Regular ol' Linux administration (and monitoring). That means OpenWRT support will likely be dropped.

For reference, I've been porting PyCI to Circuits: http://trac.softcircuit.com.au/circuits/

There's some bugs in Circuits and a few things I have to work out in my code before everything works (mostly just unicode issues) but preliminary tests show PyCI using a *LOT* less memory running under Circuits than CherryPy. About 1/4th the amount.

It could be a while though before Circuits is ready to run PyCI (too many bugs right now) but at least it is there and shows much promise. Running PyCI on Circuits would also enable it to be so much more than a web app. For example, PyCI running on top of Circuits would make it easy to write an IRC bot that controls all aspects of PyCI (which would be so much fun =)

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Hello Riskable,

Sorry for the last post I misunderstood. I agree with you on this one. I was able to request the date for you guys for finalized submissions to be pushed back. I went one further and got the date for final sumbissions pushed unil September 1st. I will make an anouncement for this and will have Andrew send out emails to all the finalists.

Thanks,

Mike

[riskable]

Having the extra time will really help. As far as I know my entry is the only one that is a complete rewrite from the ground up. Everything else might just be themes and/or simple improvements to webif/luci.

Who knows, maybe now I'll have enough time to add in my planned "Wizards" feature =)

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

Having the extra time will really help. As far as I know my entry is the only one that is a complete rewrite from the ground up. Everything else might just be themes and/or simple improvements to webif/luci.

Who knows, maybe now I'll have enough time to add in my planned "Wizards" feature =)

Sounds good!