Steering Council meeting, 17 Nov 2025

Members

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 (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
Tim: Facilitate discussion amongst Security Team about progressing https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/pull/56
Tim: Follow up with CoC regarding governance changes and if there are concerns with the reductions in language
Tim: Send technical governance updates for an early review from the Board.
Create an issue in new-features and maybe DEP about django.staticfile

Admin is one project
Types could be the other project, but requires a DEP
- Lily may attempt to do this pending time, but anyone else can take it over if they get to it first

https://github.com/meeb/django-staticsite - https://github.com/meeb/django-staticsite-example
Emma reached out months ago to Meeb, who did django distill.
Meeb finished the rewrite of Django.staticsite, ready to go.
Next step is create an issue in new-features and maybe DEP

Referencing an issue (a mention of the forum as the place to go to add a new feature, should mention new-features repo) brought up in slack.
https://www.djangoproject.com/download/6.1/roadmap/
- This is likely in a template in the djangoproject.com repo

Board asked how, if at all, would we like to be involved
JetBrains wants to start the survey process in April/May
There are SC topics that would be great to be in the survey
What would our responsibilities be?
- Likely coordinating on what questions are included, making sure there aren’t duplicates. This may have changed from when he last associated with it.
Possible questions to add:
- “If you aren’t currently, what’s stopping you from using Django at work?’
- Have you ever contributed to Django? How much?
- Are you familiar with the third-party-package process?
Frank is willing to shepherd this.
- Let Jacob know SC can take ownership for next year at least

Discussion around removing the rules around not revisiting topics for 6 months
- Why was this provision added?
- Prevent someone from bothering the SC
  - If someone is being annoying, it’s can become a CoC issue
- Avoid the SC from quickly changing a bunch of things
  - We want the SC to be able to this though.
- Let’s check with CoC team if they have any history, and confirm they are okay
Discussion around preventing DEPs when an election is called
- We tend to want to change our membership governance at this exact time so this gets in the way of positive change at times
- The board still needs to approve the changes
- The board doesn’t have a minimum quorum size, but does require at least 3 members
- Ask the board how they want to handle this, should it be in our document or in the DSF by laws?
Clean up the above, then submit to the board for an earlier review before public DEP