Steering Council meeting, 26 May 2025 (with Fellows)

Agenda

• Community page update
• Team to WG transition update
• Fellows:
  • Headline features
  • Async related: Middleware modernization
  • Request for Vote: Admin Keyboard Shortcuts and Command Palette - Django Internals
• Feature review process
• Lilian Tran’s improvements to the contributor workflow
• Sprint Ideas for Django on the Med? 🏝️

Action items

• SC: Review DSF 2024 annual report excerpt
• Frank making 2025-04-14’s notes ready to share with the public.
• Frank: Add Baptiste as a reviewer on djangoproject.com PR 2060
• Emma: Draft blog post on 6.x Features
• Carlton to create a new ticket for a new column and close the others for issues 4 and 12
• Tim: Rework security team WG PR

Community page update

• PR: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2060
• Issue: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/1909
• We want to add third party documentation
  • Cdrf classy django rest framework
  • Ccbv
  • Django girls tutorial and website
• Ask Baptiste to take a look at change for the website
• The steering council is taking ownership of maintenance in the medium and long term
• We need to start preparing for the next steering council on transition information

Team to WG transition update

• Security team is next, Tim needs to revamp Rob’s initial suggestion for a next review
• The intention is not to expand the purview of the security team, but to get it formalized.

Fellows discussion

Headline features

• It’s understood these are all just preferences and not demands
• Django-csp
  • The admin may not be compliant with csp
  • There’s some unfinished work to make this work, specific to GeoDjango
  • There’s a branch to remove the inline JS
• Django tasks
  • This is the next priority
• Django async
  • May slip depending on priorities and availability
  • Capacity may be a problem here

Async middleware modernization

• All the existing middlewares use the old style
• Should we start moving the middlewares to the new style?

Admin Keyboard Shortcuts and Command Palette

• There’s a question about maintainability for javascript when Fellows don’t feel like Javascript is something they are experts at
  • The junit tests we have feel a bit clunky
  • Playwright may help, but converting would take lot of work
  • Are we going to accept the risk of adding JS to the library despite a potential lack of expertise with it?
  • Do we need to ask what’s do-able in core vs as a third-party package?
• Do they need to create a DEP for the shortcuts and command palette?
  • This has effectively been started
• We’re going to need a marketing strategy for the django-tasks db backend already, so we could practice here
  • We could use pip extras here django[db-tasks]
• The feature could be the ability to easily make these shortcuts, and what they are will need to be defined in the DEP.

Feature review process

• We need to set up a time to review things
• Could use a bit more clarity around which items we’re discussing and moving around
• ORM standalone
  • Could be marked as docs where we will accept more how-to documentation
  • Note that we would be open to optimizations

Improvements to contributor workflow

• https://ontowhee.github.io/2025/05/19/searching-django-contributor-activities.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaHzmw31aoA
• What can we do to support Lilian with this?
  • Any integrations with Trac, but we’re not sure. Baptiste is the person who will know

Django on the Med 🏝️

• Twice a year
• Can we add a focus for those sprints?
• Looking for a breakfast sponsor