To me pasting few lines in INSTALL_APP, running pip install few times to start a project is not a big deal. It's writing code to wire up user login, user profile, change password, verify email that wasting the time. I said 'wire up' because most of the functionalities already exists either in django itself or some 3rd party app but still you need to write some code to glue all that together.
That's why I'm more keen on app that I can add to INSTALLED_APP, add one line to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS (because it provide few useful template context and I have a complete environment to start development. It already provide login and nice base template that I can extend. In short, an admin like app but not for admin.
Great idea. It would be nice if there were links to read about the projects with which you're not familiar (I don't know the details of django-annoying, for instance).
django-annoying is a great app, but you are perfectly right links are necessary also because if I eventually add more apps it will be very likely people won't know what they are.
Pretty cool idea. I totally welcome more competition with djangopackages. The problem with things like PyPi is the lack of anyone willing to step up with a better product and force improvement in the community.
The one thing that's confusing is that it seems to list packages, but wants to help you build a package. Why not combine both worlds?
