Django 1.1

[Michael Kerrin]

Hi All,

I am working on a project that is currently running Django 1.1Beta from March 23rd.

I am enquiring about the road map for the Django 1.1 release as I have not seen much talk on the mailing list (I don't pay much attention to my IRC client so apologies if I miss discussions there).

The last I heard about any road map was the blog posting http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2009/may/07/django-1-1-update/ on May 7th, which contains a linking (I won't post here as the link is long) to "the complete list" of open bugs. This "list" is constantly in flux. As of starting to write this mail a "new bug" was added to this list and the other bug wasn't there 2 weeks ago before I went on vacation.

I understand the nature of open source which requires volunteers to donate their free time to the project and as such I really expect things to run a bit late. But I am getting very concerned that the last beta was 4 months ago, the road map at http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Version1.1Roadmap is 3 months past, there doesn't seem to be any end goals for the release and I am not seeing any communication about any of this as all public sources of information on this subject are just as old.

As I said I currently use Django1.1 Beta. I think it is great. It contains some really good improvements especially in the ORM Aggregation and F expressions that made the project I am working considerable easier and the code cleaner and more fun to work on. But it is 4 months old and a beta.

So I can please request / beg / ask nicely someone to update the roadmap. Even a new Beta release would reduce some of my concerns at the moment :-)

Thanks

Michael

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[Dougal Matthews]

As I understand it; All of the 'real' tickets are fixed. http://twitter.com/freakboy3742/status/2671770783

People are adding new tickets and assigning them to 1.1, because they can, but these are generally being rejected or move to 1.2 I think. I'm not sure when we will see 1.1 out the door but I think we are possibly waiting for documentation and translations only?

But yeah, perhaps a beta or RC is needed?

Dougal

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2009/7/21 Michael Kerrin <michael...@gmail.com>

[Russell Keith-Magee]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Michael Kerrin<michael...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working on a project that is currently running Django 1.1Beta from
> March 23rd.
> I am enquiring about the road map for the Django 1.1 release as I have not
> seen much talk on the mailing list (I don't pay much attention to my IRC
> client so apologies if I miss discussions there).

...

> So I can please request / beg / ask nicely someone to update the roadmap.
> Even a new Beta release would reduce some of my concerns at the moment :-)

Hi Michael,

I agree - we (the core team) have been extremely lax on effectively
communicating the status of the release. We certainly could have
handled the period between 1.1beta1 and today much better. I promise
we'll try to do better next time around.

Here's where we:

Django v1.1 is, for all intents and purposes, complete. Yes - people
are assigning bugs to the v1.1 milestone, but from a procedural point
of view, they aren't holding up the milestone.

The intention is to cut a release candidate (RC1) in the next day or
so, the purpose of which is to formally freeze strings for
translation. The intention is that about a week after the RC, we will
update all the translations that have been provided, and cut 1.1
final.

So - we should have v1.1 by the end of the month.

Again - apologies for the bad communication on our part, and thanks
for your understanding. I hope the final result is worth it.

Yours,
Russ Magee %-)

[Michael Kerrin]

Hi,

Thanks for the update, I am looking forward to the release there is a lot of good stuff in there.

Thanks again,

Michael

2009/7/21 Russell Keith-Magee <freakb...@gmail.com>

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[Mat Clayton]

Awesome work guys, congrats. Been running off trunk in production for a while now, looking forward to see what 1.2 brings :)

Mat

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