Steering Council meeting, 23 Jun 2025 (with Fellows)

Agenda

• Community page update
• Team to WG transition update
• Fellows:
  • Upcoming absences
  • Admin keyboard shortcuts and Javascript
  • New meeting time option
• Moving more to asynchronous discussions

Action items

• 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
• Frank: Write blog post about packages eco-system
• Frank: Create issue for icon on light theme
• Sovereign Tech Fund
  • Get one or more project(s) ready
  • Check with fellows if billing scheme is ok
  • Plan another meeting with Lexi once the above is done
• Tim: Relay the how to guide on how to achieve keyboard shortcuts, can reference third party package to integrate it
• Tim: Arrange meeting with Accessibility team and Fellows, cc steering council
• Tim: Coordinate with Carlton to move Fellows to the earlier meeting

Community page update

• PR: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/2060
• Issue: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/1909
• PR was merged and deployed
• https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ third party packages
• Need a blog post
• Need to fix the icon on light mode

Team to WG transition update

• No update

Fellows discussion

Upcoming absences

• Sarah and Natalia both have absences and communicated it to the Steering Council

Admin keyboard shortcuts and Javascript

• https://github.com/django/django/pull/19579
• https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/request-for-vote-admin-keyboard-shortcuts-and-command-palette/41037
• Fellows prefer this to be a third party app, not initially added to django core, at least at first.
• Proposed code lacks tests and is still going through consideration.
• Any change would require tests and consideration.
• Possible middle ground of it being a highly visible third party by putting it in the default options and it would have to be opted out of.
• Possibly it can also be put in the docs.
• Possibly could be a customized method where the hooks are in place but the shortcuts change.
• Next step is for Tim to coordinate discussion between Fellows and Accessibility team

New meeting time option

• Fellows will be joining the alternative meeting time

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.

Moving more to asynchronous discussions

• This is prompted by schedule conflicts innate in having a global board in different timezones.
• Need a way to have a way to remind people about things and solicit feedback
• Could have the way for someone to share that they are 0 or “indifferent” and let others make choices
• Need to come to an agreement that it’s okay to remind each other