For several years, there have been efforts underway to change the way the Django open-source software project is run. This eventually produced a concrete proposal, which then went through discussion, revision, and voting by the Django core team, Django Technical Board, and Django Software Foundation Board, and has now been accepted.
There's a blog post up with a summary and link to the full new governance document: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/mar/12/governance/ But if you want a super-short summary: up until now, there have been around 50 "core" developers with full commit access and decision-making power, and a Technical Board to act as a tie-breaker. But this wasn't how the project actually worked -- most "core" developers were inactive, and most decisions were made by consensus on the django-developers mailing list or in the bug tracker. So we are moving to a system that formally recognizes this, and officially adopts a more open, consensus-based process that does away with the special group of "core" developers. Since this is mostly just saying officially that we'll do things the way they've been working, users of Django probably will not notice any change :) -- 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/CAL13Cg9hvNNHLM3nZqVAtT3vRbjTFibuZt-%3DgbgARwhk%2B489uw%40mail.gmail.com.
