[ANNOUNCE] Django 1.9 alpha 1 released

2015-09-23 Thread Tim Graham
We've made the first release on the way to Django's next major release, Django 1.9! With two and a half months until the scheduled final release, we'll need timely testing from the community to ensure an on-time and stable release. Check out the blog post:

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Tim Graham
All known issues are resolved. I plan to create the branch and make the release in about 4 hours if nothing else pops up. On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 9:46:40 AM UTC-4, Tim Graham wrote: > > I'm okay with deferring it. I'll see if we can release the alpha later > today then. I found one

Re: Making max_length argument optional

2015-09-23 Thread Tom Christie
I'm with Tom here. Forcing `max_length` to always be set on CharField feels like the right decision. Having a default there seems unnecessary obscure, and more likely to lead to untested/unnoticed failure cases. It *could* be that we'd allow `max_length=None` to explicitly turn off the

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Tim Graham
I'm okay with deferring it. I'll see if we can release the alpha later today then. I found one regression in the unreviewed ticket queue this morning and submitted a pull request. I'm also investigating a possible regression causing the djangoproject.com tests to fail. On Wednesday, September

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Markus Holtermann
I did not fully follow the discussion, but by the amount of email notifications I got on that PR if feels to me that deferring it to 1.10 would be the better option, also considering what Tom said about this being part of a core component and it has to be done right. /Markus On Wednesday,

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Tom Christie
To back that up I'll make a formal commitment to helping review & ensure completion of the PR if it *does* get deferred to 1.10. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Tom Christie
Given that it addresses such a core component I'd probably rather see it deferred to 1.10. I'd hope that doesn't affect the motivation of the author (it's a fiddly bit of work to get right and its good to see it being addressed) but from my point of view it'd be better to see it really

Re: status of 1.9 release blockers

2015-09-23 Thread Florian Apolloner
On Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at 2:25:50 AM UTC+2, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > For me, it depends on how close Florian et al think the patch is. If > it's "close, but a few things need to be tweaked", then option 2 or 3 > sounds good to me. A couple of days won't make much difference in

Re: DJango 1.8 test case fails with IntegrityError error

2015-09-23 Thread Jose Paul
Hi Shai, interprets_empty_strings_as_null is set to False Regards, Jose On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 5:39:14 PM UTC+5:30, Shai Berger wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 September 2015 09:39:17 Jose Paul wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am trying to run DJango 1.8 test cases with DB2 > > > > > >

Re: DJango 1.8 test case fails with IntegrityError error

2015-09-23 Thread Jose Paul
Hi Shai, interprets_empty_strings_as_null is set to False Regards, Jose On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 5:39:14 PM UTC+5:30, Shai Berger wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 September 2015 09:39:17 Jose Paul wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am trying to run DJango 1.8 test cases with DB2 > > > > > >