The major features are officially deferred. Let's try for the feature freeze by end of day on Monday and the alpha release on Tuesday.
There aren't any critical blockers at this time. Jani hasn't completed the Oracle GIS work, but this isn't a must-have for alpha. On Saturday, September 12, 2015 at 7:50:31 PM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: > > With 1 week to go until alpha: > > I haven't heard anything from Marc or Preston on the major features from > the last mail. > > Jani continues to give updates in #django-dev about his progress on > getting the Oracle GIS backend working. Things seem to be on track for > finishing up by alpha. > > On Friday, September 4, 2015 at 3:55:22 PM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: >> >> Status with 2 weeks and a weekend to go until alpha (Monday, September >> 21). >> >> Planned major features for 1.9: >> >> PostgreSQL Full Text Search (Marc Tamlyn) >> >> I haven't seen any recent activity on the pull request, nor have I heard >> anything from Marc about it. >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4726 >> >> Custom indexes (Marc Tamlyn) >> >> I haven't see any work on revising the DEP, so this seem out for 1.9. >> >> https://github.com/django/deps/pull/6 >> >> Template-based widget rendering (Preston Timmons) >> I think the code is in fairly good shape. It seems the main work left to >> is to write documentation. >> https://github.com/django/django/pull/4848 >> >> Release blockers: >> >> - Add Oracle support for new-style GIS functions >> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24688 >> Owner: Jani Tiainen >> Status: In progress (from recent IRC discussion, it sounds like Jani is >> making good progress) >> >> On Monday, August 24, 2015 at 3:40:22 PM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: >>> >>> Time to kickoff the progress tracker for the next major release! >>> >>> Here's the status with 4 weeks to go until alpha (September 21). >>> >>> Release blockers: >>> >>> - Add Oracle support for new-style GIS functions >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24688 >>> Owner: Jani Tiainen >>> Status: In progress (test suite runs on Oracle now, which is an >>> improvement from last week) >>> >>> >>> Other tickets tagged for 1.9: >>> >>> - No way to create tables for apps without migrations >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25144 >>> Status: Awaiting replies to "Keeping apps without migrations?" thread >>> for a decision on what to do >>> Mailing list thread: >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/qHP4ZQSK9xM/discussion >>> Owner: pending discussion >>> >>> - Replace admin icons images by inline SVG >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/20597 >>> Owner: elky >>> Status: In progress >>> >>> - Update tutorial screenshots for new admin theme >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/25200 >>> Status: to be done after previous item is completed >>> >>> >>> Relevant ticket filters: >>> >>> Release blockers affecting master: >>> >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&version=master&severity=Release+blocker >>> >>> Tickets tagged 1.9: >>> >>> https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&keywords=~1.9 >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/261819cf-fb09-4e6b-b162-d2cdc76f3807%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
