Steering Council meeting, 14 Apr 2025

Agenda

• 6.x Roadmap - capacity/scope discussion
• State of CCBV et al.

Action items

• Emma, Carlton, Lily: Get with Will Vincent about latest survey results
• Blog post for short and medium term action items?
• Lily: Emma to meet Charlie about CCBV at DCEU
• Frank: Looking back at the package list the SC made and adding them

6.x Roadmap

• Can continue with time based releases over medium term
• Frank noted some things obviously core and others not our responsibility to perfect
• Discussed third party ecosystem
  • Emma brought up compatibility concerns when using a ton of third party apps
  • Can we improve APIs? Explicit plugin API?
• Carlton would like to designate between what can be done in the short, medium, and long term.
• Discussion about state of async work
• Should we have a community / office hours type discussion about the scope of Django?
• Discussion about whether or not Django Survey reaches enough of the community to be a barometer
  • Brainstorm ways to reach a larger audience
  • Would other web frameworks join us in collecting metrics with a PYTHON_METRICS env opt out?