I have put in a PR (https://github.com/django/django/pull/13029) that I think matches pretty well with the comments from Carl Meyer in the conversation you linked. Please let me know what you think of it.
It adds a small helper function that will read an env var, optionally coercing it to a type, optionally falling back to a default. It also makes two of the settings in the default settings.py template (DEBUG and SECRET_KEY) use this function, with their previous values set as defaults. Thanks! On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:39 PM Kit La Touche <kit.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have, thank you! I tried to do my research before I wrote this email and > this PR, but there's a ton of context to all those conversations that I'm > sure I'd be missing, so I'm never gonna reach the point of feeling > confident that I have a handle on what's gone before, alas. > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 4:03 PM Tim Graham <timogra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Have you read past discussions on the mailing list? >> >> For example: >> >> Making Django more PaaS-friendly >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/BAGhOKXGj4I/discussion >> >> Searching the archives for "12-factor" yields some other results. >> >> That may help you to craft your proposal. >> >> On Friday, June 5, 2020 at 5:45:07 PM UTC-4, Kit La Touche wrote: >>> >>> I'm interested in reducing the distance from running `startproject` to >>> having a deployable Django app, having recently had a number of >>> interactions with junior devs interested in using Django but finding >>> deployment a nightmare. Some of this is of course on the other side, on the >>> PaaS of choice, but some of it can (and I think should) be done on the >>> Django side. >>> >>> I'd like to start small. If I made a PR to replace a few key settings >>> with "get from the env, or fall back to this default", would people be >>> interested in approving that? I hope so! >>> >>> --Kit >>> >> -- >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a45204c6-5475-4ee9-a467-78c66736cfado%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a45204c6-5475-4ee9-a467-78c66736cfado%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAFcS-hAfFWsbtjYQP%3DD92yjqNUx%2BBthffQWWkP2%2BWnGHG9__UA%40mail.gmail.com.
