Hi all, On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
If you'd like to help push us closer to where *you* think the right place balance is, the best thing to do is to watch our development process and speak up in the moment. These sorts of general, post-facto observations don't give us a ton that we can really act on, and ultimately are going to come down to "feeling" arguments. I'd like to avoid those because they're kinda counter productive. If you want to do something about it, help us on future decisions; second-guessing the past doesn't really get us anywhere.
I would love to see support extended for a bit longer after deprecation. Maybe not in every case, but where it doesn't hurt too much. It certainly seems that people are eager to rip things out the very second that the deprecation waiting period expires and they are "allowed" to.
We have apps in production running Django 1.3. There won't be any security fixes. If there's a critical vulnerability, we may have to do a lot of unpaid work to either backport the fix, or upgrade the site to Django 1.6, which will undoubtedly break a lot of stuff.
I'm not asking anyone to do my job for me (I hope) but it would be really nice to have something like 3 years of support for core infrastructure like Django, that's really painful to upgrade, and even more painful to replace. It would certainly help me to sleep better at night.
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