Re: An easier path to upgrade from one LTS release to another

2015-05-08 Thread Aymeric Augustin
Hello, On 8 mai 2015, at 17:54, Carl Meyer wrote: > > On 05/07/2015 10:20 PM, Tai Lee wrote: >> This sounds good. But will it significantly slow down the rollout of new >> features into Django that require deprecation? > > No, because it would only delay the removal of deprecated features, not

Re: MigrationTestCase

2015-05-08 Thread Andrew Godwin
Hi Tom, When you say "testing migrations", what do you mean exactly? The migration framework itself is heavily unit-tested, so I presume you intend to test things like custom RunPython function bodies and the like? Andrew On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Tom Linford wrote: > At Robinhood, we've

Re: An easier path to upgrade from one LTS release to another

2015-05-08 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Tim, On 05/08/2015 08:28 AM, Tim Graham wrote: > Do we need to make it easy to support two LTS releases at once? For > example, at this point in time I expect projects to drop 1.4 support > when adding 1.8 support, not try to support both given that 1.4 will be > EOL in < 6 months. Assuming the

Re: An easier path to upgrade from one LTS release to another

2015-05-08 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Tai, On 05/07/2015 10:20 PM, Tai Lee wrote: > This sounds good. But will it significantly slow down the rollout of new > features into Django that require deprecation? No, because it would only delay the removal of deprecated features, not prevent the initial deprecation. The only cost here is

Re: An easier path to upgrade from one LTS release to another

2015-05-08 Thread Tim Graham
Do we need to make it easy to support two LTS releases at once? For example, at this point in time I expect projects to drop 1.4 support when adding 1.8 support, not try to support both given that 1.4 will be EOL in < 6 months. Assuming the answer is no, practically, it might mean keeping aroun