Django LTS support time

2019-08-09 Thread אורי
Django Developers, I would like to know why Django LTS support time is 3 years. I think with Ubuntu LTS it's at least 5 years. We are using Django 1.11 for Speedy Net, which was released on April 2017, and I'm not sure we will be able to upgrade it before April 2020. There are changes which are no

Re: Django Models

2019-08-09 Thread Adam Johnson
Hi! I think you've found the wrong mailing list for this post. This mailing list is for the development of Django itself, not for support using Django. This means the discussions of bugs and features in Django itself, rather than in your code using it. People on this list are unlikely to answer yo

Re: Django LTS support time

2019-08-09 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hi Uri. I can’t see that we have capacity to extend the LTS support window. Even if we did, I’m not sure it’s a good idea. Your best bet is to get off the LTS and onto the latest major version, and then stay there. (As much work as that may look initially.) It requires a commitment to upgrade

Re: Django LTS support time

2019-08-09 Thread Adam Johnson
Hi Uri, For everyone's convenience here's the documentation on the release process: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-process/ , and the grid of supported versions in time: https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ The current release cadence was decided 4 years ago in DEP 4 h

Proposing development discussion forums

2019-08-09 Thread Andrew Godwin
Hi everyone, This might be slightly controversial, but I would like to propose that we have a forum for discussing Django development (and potentially user support), alongside the mailing list and maybe, eventually replacing it. My full reasoning is below, but in short, it would be more accessibl

Re: Proposing development discussion forums

2019-08-09 Thread אורי
Every Google Group also has an online forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-developers אורי u...@speedy.net On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 6:03 AM Andrew Godwin wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This might be slightly controversial, but I would like to propose that we > have a forum for discus

Re: Proposing development discussion forums

2019-08-09 Thread Andrew Godwin
‪On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:16 PM ‫אורי‬‎ wrote:‬ > Every Google Group also has an online forum: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/django-developers > Indeed, I am aware of this, I usually use it when I link threads on Twitter. However, it is not really a forum in the sense I am describi