The end of support simply means there will be no further releases, and any showstopping bugs reported will not be fixed. It doesn't mean Django itself will stop working. Also, the decision is in the hands of the Technical Board, not the Django Fellows, so the correct process would be to request that the Technical Board schedule additional support/releases of Django 1.11.
That said, my personal opinion is that both the Python 2 EOL (2020-01) and the Django 1.11 EOL (2020-04) were set years in advance; organizations which waited until the last minute to do their upgrades would simply wait until the last minute again if given an extension, and be right back in the same problem. There has to be a cutoff date at some point where we just say "sorry, but if you haven't prioritized upgrading for years and years, we cannot tie up our open-source project's resources because of that". And the announced cutoff, which is in line with previous LTS releases of Django, seems as reasonable as any other. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:57 AM Daniela Kim <dkim29...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mariusz, > Thank you for your response. > > Would it be possible for the Django Fellows to vote to extend Django 1.11's > EOL by a few weeks? For those of us with a large Django codebase, we were > bitten by the onerous Python 2->3 upgrade and so the start of our Django > upgrade was delayed by several weeks. > > Also, given the current global situation with Covid-19, including (1) > work-life difficulties/transitions for organizations and our developers and > (2) an evermore global online presence with further exposure to online > security threats, a graceful extension would be very much appreciated. > > Thank you for your consideration. > Daniela > > > On Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 1:15:18 AM UTC-4, Mariusz Felisiak wrote: >> >> No, support of Django 1.11 ends on 1st April. >> >> Best, >> Mariusz >> > -- > 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/f5718ec3-6041-40db-93fd-b7b8b354e64a%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/CAL13Cg_WBtBU%3D_ZrSPfgWfzP0U2PGsFXvcCMCY8GCcDRybS5tQ%40mail.gmail.com.
