A while ago now I opened a ticket that we need to deprecate the python-memcached backend in Django, and ideally make a new one which uses Pinterest's pymemcache instead (which is now the most commonly used one).
This is the ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29887 But it seems there hasn't been any work on it. Someone assigned themselves, but nothing beyond that has happened. At this stage we really need to remove the docs that recommend python-memcached, and the backend associated with it, and say officially that only pylibmc is a valid and safe option from the core backends using Memcached. Considering how important Memcached is to a lot of projects, this ought to be a high priority item, with some urgency given that Django core is sporting support for a now very deprecated and outdated library (Last released: Dec 16, 2017), with no future, and a clear successor in pymemcache. I'm sadly not in a position where I can contribute this myself, but would be happy to test/review. Are there any willing contributors for this? Or some people from the Django core team which will tackle this? Cheers, Adrian Turjak -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/6b110940-e059-2550-b1da-d94b62de5e59%40catalyst.net.nz.
