D Django Steering Council Meeting Minutes

Steering Council meeting, 13 Jan 2025

Members

  • Carlton Gibson
  • Emmanuelle Delescolle
  • Frank Wiles
  • Lily Foote
  • Tim Schilling

Agenda

  1. Status update on blog post
  2. What do we want to spend these meetings on?
  3. Discussions publicity
    • Finding balance between discussing things amongst ourselves versus bringing in the community
    • What types of interaction can people have on thread limited to certain users?
  4. Asking Polls for the Django community
    • Discourse supports a polls feature
  5. Steering Council roadmap
    • Could use a GitHub project with a kanban
  6. Why are DEPs hard?
    • RST
    • Higher academic language
    • The several accounts you need to have
    • The uncertainty of the shepherd role, implementation team
    • Is the purpose of DEP idea or a change request
    • We don’t do a good job of identifying an interesting idea needing to be a DEP
  7. How can we make DEPs easier?
    • A friendly guide to getting a DEP.
    • When is a DEP needed
    • We need to find a way to help prevent people spending too much time drafting a DEP
    • GitHub repo for ideas and then routing that into some kanban board
    • Could define forum’s purpose more tightly around what to expect from discussions
    • Review Ember’s process
    • Clear messaging that ideas [on forum] may not get a response instantly.
    • Clarify Triage Workflow around “wontfix” label. Change to “Discussion needed” or something.
    • Create flow chart
  8. Communication around issues in general
    • There have been people who have tried to communicate concerns but haven’t understood what Trac was for or what the process was
  9. Other logistical questions?
    • Meeting notes
      • Raw notes in Google docs
      • Public Markdown on github
      • Spend a few minutes at the end to review the notes for what shouldn’t be published.
      • Have markdown reviewed before posting, wait on some thumbs ups
      • Bring in Jacob/Catherine/DSF for assistance on note taking
    • GSoC
      • Likely needs a dedicated person/team/WG
      • Other orgs have a dedicated community position
      • Need to talk with Natalia, Sarah, (Thibaud previous admin) about who should do this
    • How to contact us?
      • Does the forum limit DMs for new folks?
      • For feature requests, they should likely become DEPs and then we can weigh in on them
      • As requests come in, we need to organize them

Action items