Steering Council meeting, 3 Nov 2025 (with Fellows)

Members

Emma: Draft blog post on 6.x Features - still need to setup a meeting with the fellows about that
- Reach out to Rob Hudson, Mike Edmunds, Calvin Vu
Frank: Write blog post about packages eco-system (Do on own blog given recent dp.com post.)
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)
- Plan another meeting with Lexi once the above is done
Carlton: Ask Adam to prepare DEP for django-upgrade as part of the release process. targeting 6.2 (6.1?)

There’s a nice DSF post on the Django ecosystem
Frank’s packages eco-system post will be converted to a personal blog post and link to the DSF entry
Emma is continuing to work on the 6.x feature post
- Several people could be mentioned
- Rob Hudson (django-csp), Mike Edmunds (django-anymail), Calvin Vu (Postgres search lexemes that was merged in)

Need big projects. Potentially a project being adding a new admin, based on plugins to add features.
Likely starting as a third party package and then potentially integrating into a release
Adding Type annotations is a potential project Jacob Walls has suggested. Multiple projects can be applied for.
The challenge is that for each idea, there needs to be a champion to talk to the fund. Lexi would potentially write multiple proposals, trying to get multiple accepted.

Carlton wrote a blog post about potentially moving to an annual release cycle that would include stopping support for past versions on a schedule, making every version three years of support.
- Is the more aggressive “Green Python” approach something we can lean towards? More exciting certainly.
“Extended support” (beyond LTS) is something we might charge for. Python versions and Security Patches.
- The amount of money to be charged would need to be discussed.