Re: The problem of versioning a large project.

I'm not sure your issue is Django-specific, so it may be off-topic for this group. However, your question is a bit vague to be appropriate for Stack Overflow or other forums either. "Versioning" could mean a few things. At first, I thought you meant something like date-based or semantic version

Re: [Technical Board?] Project Ideas, and beginning GSoC 2023.

I'd like to see database-level defaults supported in models and migrations: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/470 There's currently a PR open, which replaces an earlier 2020 PR https://github.com/django/django/pull/16092 It would be a large benefit to those of us practicing continuous deplo

Re: Why using django.contrib.sessions as the salt to encode session data? why not secret key?

Looking at the code, the hard-coded salt seems OK to me. The encoding is done by SessionBase.encode() , which calls dumps() from django.core.signing