DEP 0019 - Technical governance for the Django project#107
DEP 0019 - Technical governance for the Django project#107tim-schilling wants to merge 1 commit intodjango:mainfrom
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This is a simplification and reduction of the technical governance. It is a merge of DEPs 10 and 12, acting as a single source of truth for governance. Add bugfix release mention. Removes a lot of the extra context around the bugfix being for a feature release. It's not referenced anywhere else and may be noise. Consolidate the steering council voting eligibility revocations. This is a really long sentence now. Added additional links for DEP process and new-features repo. Allowed revisiting vetoed discussions and features at SC discretion. Allowed DEPs during Steering Council elections Add specific rationales for the changes to the relevant section. Remove initial list of definitions in favor of links in the document. Removed the CLA reference. Remove the phrase minor consensus. Add a reporting section that documents what reporting is occurring today. Replace all references to the DSF secretary with the DSF Board. Remove the paragraph about revoking the ability to vote. Remove ability for board members to run for the steering council. Add updated version of steering council eligibility requirements. Remove voting as the steering council's decision making process. Expand the technical direction section to call out ability to use DEPs for things without using the new features repo.
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| Everyone is encouraged to propose and provide feedback on new features | ||
| for Django at any time on the `new-features GitHub repository`_. |
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I was wondering how this impacts discussions in the issue tracker and in the forums?
Previously, there has been an informal process where new features proposed on the issue tracker are often deferred for further discussion/feedback in the Forums.
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We now have a formal process that new features proposed on Trac are redirected to new-features instead of the forum. It's been a big success - previously good ideas were getting lost on the forum. With GitHub issues, now have much better visibility of what the open discussions are.
| .. _Mergers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/mergers-team.md | ||
| .. _Releasers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/releasers-team.md | ||
| .. _Security Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/security-team.md |
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It will be - the Security Team WG doc is still being worked on.
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@tim-schilling this file is named final/0018-technical-governance-6x.rst, looks like an oversight or typo. This PR title and the DEP contents refer to it as DEP 19.
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I don't know a lot about Django's governance model and thus can't speak to any of the specific details in this DEP, but for what it is worth, I liked reading about how the steering council will be run.
I scanned the referenced DEP 10, and I find this new version much more accessible to read and understand. Thanks for proposing it.
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| .. _DEP 44: https://github.com/django/deps/blob/main/accepted/0044-clarify-release-process.rst | ||
| .. _Mergers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/mergers-team.md | ||
| .. _Releasers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/releasers-team.md |
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| .. _Releasers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/releasers-team.md | |
| .. _Releasers Team: https://github.com/django/dsf-working-groups/blob/main/active/releasers.md |
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From the motivation section:
This is a revisitation of Django's technical governance in which a simplification and reduction was made to make it more approachable to more people. The goals of these changes are the following:
Related governance changes: