Steering Council meeting, 12 May 2025

Agenda

• Fellow’s 6.x feature priorities
• Community page update
• Accessibility Team -> WG update
• Sovereign Tech Fund update
• New Features process
• Hiring a new Fellow - target August

Action items

• SC: Provide guidance on Fellow’s 6.x features
• Frank making 2025-04-14’s notes ready to share with the public.
• Communicate the preferences to the Fellows
• Emma: Draft blog post on 6.x Features
• Tim to reach out to Lexi to reschedule
• Carlton to create a new ticket for a new column and close the others for issues 4 and 12
• Tim to close https://github.com/django/new-features/pull/21
• Lily to move “Approved” in the board header/titles

Fellow’s 6.x feature priorities

• Want to identify two or three things that we would prefer to see
• Setting a priority list is very valuable to other (non-Fellow) contributors, so they know how they can help
• Things below the line could be fundraising opportunities
• These shouldn’t be treated as goals or things to be measured against
• These are upcoming items at some point, some will be in 6.0 or 6.1, that some might be much later

Community page update

• https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2060
• Ideally want to have blurbs about when to use various packages and resources

Accessibility team -> WG update

• https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/34
• Agreement on this direction, the PR can be merged

Sovereign Tech Fund

• Someone needs to reach out to Lexi to reschedule, 1 month from now
• We’d need to select a project that would qualify for the Sovereign Tech Fund
• Want to meet with Lexi to understand more about tech fund
  • Can we submit more than 1
  • What exactly are they offering?

New Features Process

• We should make a change to map/link the wording between the kanban board and the flowchart
• How do we want to handle feature ideas that span several changes?
  • https://github.com/django/new-features/pull/21
• We should add component tags or categories as labels
  • There’s an existing GHA: https://github.com/django/new-features/blob/main/.github/workflows/setup_labels.yml
  • Source file: https://github.com/django/new-features/blob/main/.github/labels.yml
• Emma created a threshold algorithm that identifies things that can likely move along to the next stage
• Feels like the process is working, there are fewer feature discussions on the forum and trac.
• Discussion around restricting discussion on Rust templates
  • There may be a need for future questions about feature ideas, but they would need to be posed manually

Fellow update

• Will be bringing a third Fellow in August, it will be a 1 year contract, full-time position, open to less than that
• Fellowship WG will be having a job post up in the next month
• This is in the board meeting notes