Steering Council meeting, 13 Oct 2025

Members

[async] Approved DEPs
- 0016 - Name the main command Django PR: #100
- 0015 - Improved startproject interface PR: #98
Django on the Med

Merge PR #98 (DEP 15)
Tim: Preliminary review of DEP 10 adjustments
Tim: Open a few third party package docs references in the docs
- Add mention of django-upgrade to release notes docs
- Mention community page AND django packages
Emma: Draft blog post on 6.x Features - still need to setup a meeting with the fellows about that
Frank: Write blog post about packages eco-system
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

Need to merge PR: #98
Announce the approved DEPs?
- Do we want a blog post? This may help us get people to do exactly what Frank and Carlton were hoping for
On the topic of project templates
- Copier, cookiecutter and Django’s own project template
- Django project templates
  - Was post hooks in the past
  - Would be nice to have templates maintained outside of Django core
- Do we want to support plugins for project templates
  - Run pip install, then django new
  - Could we use Pluggy here?
    - Emma has been working on a modernization of admin that utilizes Pluggy
    - Let’s mention this on the DEP and get community feedback.

Carlton led roadmapping session
- Many ideas were proposed
Lily led new-features repo review
Mariusz and Simon progressed DB backed on_delete functionality
Want to utilize new uuid7 functionality and deprecate postgres specific uuid4
Research into updating the docs for implementing raw SQL
- https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/36657
How beneficial would it be to have a newer contributor there?
- It may also help keep them around
- There are things that Carlton and Paolo want to do to support others to attend
- There was at least one attendee who showed up because of the convenient location
What is the difference between these sprints and the conference sprints
- They are extra day long
- It’s not the end of the conference
- Newcomers do take up attention and energy and may impact productivity of others
Daniele Procida mentioned tracking progress and value to attract sponsors
How do we want to incorporate these sessions into our DEP 10 re-write?
- We should remove those references from DEP 10 and have it float up the SC in whatever way