So I went to the London Django/Rails meetup yesterday. In general a good time was had - met Simon Willison, and some ThoughtWorks guys doing a GreenPeace site with Django.
The general feeling from those using or considering Django (including some rubyists) seemed to be "Release a 0.7 tarball, for the love of all that is holy!" It seems that quite some people just aren't comfortable with checking things out of subversion. They don't particularly want backwards compatibility, just a tarball. This would probably widen the number of people willing to use/try out Django. There seems to be some plan of releasing 1.0 in the near future. I'm not convinced that is a great idea if backwards compatibility needs to be preserved after this, as there are still a number of fairly major things that do need work and thought, as well as practical experience.( eg authorisation, schema transitions, etc). I personally do not know of any pressing need to release a 1.0 . It doesn't seem that being pre-1.0 has had a significant negative impact on the hype surrounding certain other projects - but having no releases does seem to be having some negative effect, however small, on us. Any thoughts?
