Steering Council meeting, 21 Jul 2025

Members

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
Tim: DjangoCon Africa talk
Tim: Reach out to Akash about database cascades
Tim: Reach out to Baptiste about search on djangoproject.com with elasticsearch
Frank: Write blog post about packages eco-system
All: Start process of reviewing new-features ideas, propose an action and request feedback
All: Collect preferences for 6.1 release
Sovereign Tech Fund
- Emma: Get one or more project(s) ready (maybe Admin or at least list of places to start)
- Check with fellows if billing scheme is ok
- Plan another meeting with Lexi once the above is done

Concerns about some features are being recreated on the forum
Need to regularly check in and remove issues with too many thumbs down and move on with enough thumbs up.
Before moving something to the second column, what is needed first, or what is needed after the move?
Can create a separate channel or use the forum to identify the various issues that are being proposed to move, along with the text being sent. People can reply in thread and vote / comment approval.

Two ideas are Start Project command and project template DEP
Emma wants to sit down with the fellows ~15min to talk about 6.x and blog post
Composite Primary Keys continued:
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/18863
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/18865
- https://github.com/django/django/pull/18868
- Original author may not have time to continue, need to check with Csirmazbendeguz
Database level cascades: https://github.com/django/django/pull/16851
- Original author may not have time to continue, need to check with Akash
Move model between apps
- Would like to have a set of formal guidelines to help others. (“better story than three janky migrations”)
Social media/blog post could be a good tool for this for those who don’t have specific individuals in mind
Are there any new features that could get merged in for 6.1?
- Check for items that have been pushed back to new features for discussion.

Mentioned in docs as of https://github.com/django/django/pull/19635
It’s currently not searchable.
- This is difficult to implement because all the content is served differently
- If it’s elastic search, we should be able to inject whatever content we want to
- Need to ask Baptiste about elastic search
Does the Website WG have a roadmap and or looking for areas of focus?
- Can share the benefits of updating search to work with other pages with Website WG
- There are other topics that aren’t searchable, which causes difficulty.
A conversation about adding docs topics
- There are topics that should be mentioned in the docs, but aren’t
- Daniele Procida may have suggestions on things to change for a larger docs overhaul
- For example, the documentation doesn’t mention REST and GraphQL