[Python-modules-team] Django 1.9

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Luke Faraone wrote:
> Stretch freezes at 2016-12-05[1].

This is the hard freeze. Switching from Django 1.10 to 1.11 is a
like a transition and will probably not be accepted after the transition
freeze...

> Per the Django roadmap published in June[2], 1.11 LTS will be released
> in April 2017.
>
> In the Django 1.8 cycle, the codebase entered a feature freeze in
> January 2015, rc-bug-only freeze in February, and released in April
> 2015.

So the corresponding feature freeze is to be expected in january 2017
and that's well after our transition freeze... and even after the hard
freeze.

It will be a hard sell to the release managers. They are probably aiming
at a shorter freeze... and asking them to wait until April so that Django
is ready is unlikely to fly. Not even speaking of reverse dependencies...

It's a pity but Django is on a 2 year LTS schedule that releases just after
our stable releases...

Cheers,
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