DEP 0008 (Formatting using Black) is accepted

[Andrew Godwin]

Hi everyone,

The Technical Board has voted on DEP 0008 (https://github.com/django/deps/blob/master/accepted/0008-black.rst), after the extensive discussion here and the updates done as a result.

The board voted in favour, and so I've moved the DEP into the accepted directory.

One of the key changes to the proposal was to wait until Black got to a stable (1.0) release, so it will sit in "accepted" until that happens, at which point we will do the implementation (including the big reformat itself) and then move the DEP to "final".

There's no hard timeline on when Black will hit a stable release, but it's very close; there are a few changes we'd like to make sure are included when we reformat Django, such as keeping lists with trailing commas on multiple lines (https://github.com/python/black/pull/826). That's why we're waiting for the stable release rather than reformatting now.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in on the discussion - this was not an easy decision, and the feedback helped a lot to work out what was best for us.

I also want to personally thank Herman Schistad, for prompting this discussion, and Aymeric Augustin, for his work on writing and updating the DEP!

Yours in auto-formatting,

Andrew

[Andrew Godwin]

One quick clarification - when I said "stable (1.0)" release, I in fact meant the first release that the Black project officially marks as stable.

Black doesn't use versioning that would result in a stable release being called 1.0, as far as I know, given they are on 19.3b0 right now!

Andrew

[Michael Martinez]

I'm disappointed to learn that this was merged without a healthy debate on the deps repo. 

[Tom Forbes]

There has been a particularly healthy debate on the mailing list, I think it was clear that a consensus was not going to be reached. Are there any points you wanted to bring up there that where not already made on the mailing list thread?

Tom

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