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My Django Roadmap Ideas

2 points by pauloxnet 3y ago

rokkitmensch 3y ago
Indicative of how marvelously stable Django is that none of these roadmap items have to do with the software. I came back to the old workhorse for some experimentation recently and was delighted, delighted (!), I tell you, at how familiar, comfortable, and productive it was. Started exploring a Turbolinks/Turboframes implementation (https://github.com/hotwire-django/turbo-django https://github.com/hotwire-django/turbo-django) that Just Worked. Amusingly, mid-hack, the repo owner marked it as unmaintained. But it works! Nothing needs doing! Another victim of the cult of constant improvement.
- pauloxnet 3y ago
  Thanks for your feedback. I confirm Django is very stable but we're trying to constantly improve it too. See for example the Release Notes https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/
  - rokkitmensch 3y ago
    Do you think anything from this roadmap is going to show up in the release notes?
    - pauloxnet 3y ago
      I think so. But of course it would require times to be selected, prioritized and deployed before that.
pauloxnet 3y ago
I've added four new ideas to my list of possible improvements for Django and its community. I'd like to know what you think. https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/ https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/
fbdab103 3y ago
One I would like to see is for dj-database-url (https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url) to be built-into the project. It is one of those extensions I am always going to install because it is just so handy.
- pauloxnet 3y ago
  I agree with you. Someone already proposed it in the past but can be proposed again.
  - fbdab103 3y ago
    To be explicitly clear, I think you could strip out the environment variable loading stuff. Really just want there to be a standardized database url format parser. Does a lot to encourage not keeping database configuration in settings.py if there is a guided path to loading the secret.

2 points by pauloxnet 3y ago

Indicative of how marvelously stable Django is that none of these roadmap items have to do with the software. I came back to the old workhorse for some experimentation recently and was delighted, delighted (!), I tell you, at how familiar, comfortable, and productive it was. Started exploring a Turbolinks/Turboframes implementation (https://github.com/hotwire-django/turbo-django https://github.com/hotwire-django/turbo-django) that Just Worked. Amusingly, mid-hack, the repo owner marked it as unmaintained. But it works! Nothing needs doing! Another victim of the cult of constant improvement.

pauloxnet 3y ago
Thanks for your feedback. I confirm Django is very stable but we're trying to constantly improve it too. See for example the Release Notes https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/releases/
- rokkitmensch 3y ago
  Do you think anything from this roadmap is going to show up in the release notes?
  - pauloxnet 3y ago
    I think so. But of course it would require times to be selected, prioritized and deployed before that.

pauloxnet 3y ago

I've added four new ideas to my list of possible improvements for Django and its community. I'd like to know what you think. https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/ https://www.paulox.net/2024/01/19/my-django-roadmap-ideas/

fbdab103 3y ago

One I would like to see is for dj-database-url (https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url https://github.com/jazzband/dj-database-url) to be built-into the project. It is one of those extensions I am always going to install because it is just so handy.

pauloxnet 3y ago
I agree with you. Someone already proposed it in the past but can be proposed again.
- fbdab103 3y ago
  To be explicitly clear, I think you could strip out the environment variable loading stuff. Really just want there to be a standardized database url format parser. Does a lot to encourage not keeping database configuration in settings.py if there is a guided path to loading the secret.