To quote Channel's author, Andrew Godwin: "I will take the path-most-trodden for me and large Django features, which is to run it as an external package, compat

To quote Channel's author, Andrew Godwin: "I will take the path-most-trodden for me and large Django features, which is to run it as an external package, compatible with 1.8 through 1.10 (which the package already is), and let it mature and develop outside of core, before coming round to look again at inclusion for 1.11 or 2.0."