You're right that velocity has picked up. It actually picked up about a year and a half ago. I would say the main driver was the Django core expanding to includ

You're right that velocity has picked up. It actually picked up about a year and a half ago. I would say the main driver was the Django core expanding to include people like Carl Meyer (look him up on stack overflow if you want to learn how you help a community. He also appears to be an absolute monster at crushing bugs) Alex Gaynor, Andrew Godwin, and a bunch of other people: https://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/trunk/docs/internals/committers.txt?rev=15890 https://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/trunk/docs/interna... I think that Django went through a rough period of growing pains there but now seems back on track.