Bleach is a whitelist-based HTML sanitizer and auto-linker in Python, built on html5lib, for AMO and SUMO and released under the BSD license.
Bleach has two main functions: sanitizing HTML based on a whitelist of tags and attributes, and turning URLs into links. It uses html5lib for both.
For more information on using Bleach, see the README included in the source. For more info on how Bleach works, follow below the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
When I joined the SUMO team six months ago, the team was just starting a discussion of “where do we go from here?” SUMO was built on a CMS called TikiWiki, and had diverged pretty significantly in two years. (David Tenser wrote a more detailed history if you’re interested.)
After a few months of talking and testing—and a few changes of direction—we’ve decided that SUMO will follow our colleagues on AMO and move to a custom web application, built on Django, a development framework in Python.
Why are we committing to such a dramatic new direction? Three major reasons. Read the rest of this entry »