python-thumbnails-roadmap.md

python-thumbnails

What is python-thumbnails

It is a python package for creating thumbnails. It is not tied to a specific web framework, but is designed to work with most of them and has planned integrations with Django and Flask.

Example site (Repo)
Documentation

Roadmap

When will we see a pre-release on pypi

As fast as we can get it out. The hope is before 1st of April.

Features

• get_thumbnail should create image and save it
• config loading
• Scale
• Crop
  • Crop for aliases, center, top, right, bottom, left.
  • Crop for custom center-point
• Engines
  • Extendible thumbnail engine
  • Pillow
  • graphicsmagick
  • pgmagick
  • WandEngine
• Caching
• Extendible caching backend
• Simple caching
• Caching backend for memcache
• Caching backend for redis
• Storage
• Extendible storage backend
• File system storage backend
• Django storage backend
• S3 ?
• Alternative resolutions
• Django-integration
  • Load django settings
  • Add path and url defaults for django
  • Integrate with django cache
  • Integrate with django storage
  • Templatetag that calls get_thumbnail
  • Template filter that replaces all images with thumbnails
• Flask-integration
  • Load Flask settings
  • Add path and url defaults for Flask

Meta

• Documentation of everything
• Tests of everything
• Contributions guidelines

@mattbriancon easy-thumbnails depends on django and only supports pillow

@martinmaillard: Thanks for the input :)