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April 5, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Just a quickie… In British politics there’s an idea of collective responsibility: once a policy is agreed in cabinet, members of the government are required to defend it even if they don’t agree with it personally[^1]. In Django we have similar. We try to reach decisions via consensus. Once that’s done, there’s a convention that you’ll support that, even if it didn’t quite go your way. That applies all the more to the Fellows. It is quite literally their job to defend the consensus reached on…
Read MoreApril 2, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
The week that was 2023 WK13. So, that’s it. I’m retired 🥳 — this week was my last as a Django Fellow. It’s been a great ride, and a massive honour. But now it’s time for other things. Everyone was very kind this week. Mariusz made me a cake. Others sent kind words. It was nice to wrap up in time for Django 4.2 next week. I’m looking forward to two things mainly: fewer notifications, and being able to focus on a specific task for extended periods. Updates I posted A Chat About the Future of…
Read MoreMarch 29, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Yesterday we had DSF President, Chaim Kirby, join us for Django Chat. Due to our super-speedy production team (Will) that's out today. Clearly it's nice if you do listen to the podcast but, given that it's just us chatting, I don't normally think that you should listen. Well perhaps this time, yes. As well as Chaim, Will has just come off of three years as DSF Treasurer, and I'm wrapping up tomorrow after five years as a Django Fellow. You don't have to agree with what we say but, we touch on t…
Read MoreMarch 26, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
The week that was 2023 WK12 Next week is my last week as a Django Fellow. I’m looking forward to a break now. I’m looking forward to turning off the notifications. As I keep telling folks, I’m not leaving Django — far from it! — and I’ll be available to be cc-ed or @mentioned as relevant, but for the last five years I’ve seen pretty much every comment, every action, every commit that’s gone on on django/django: I need to turn that down. Eyeballing the calendar, I think I’ll see how I feel af…
Read MoreMarch 3, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
I was rueing the lack of an HTTP parser in the Python stdlib, under the hashtag #MoreBatteries. Brett Cannon asked why I thought that belonged. So… One of my main companions when learning Python was Doug Hellmann’s Python Module of the Week series which became the Python Standard Library by Example book, and was ultimately updated for Python 3. I was primarily working in other languages at the time, but was able to smuggle in Python for things like automation scripts, and test harnesses, and …
Read MoreFeb. 22, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Just a quick note. I wrote in My 2022 in Review that the dominant theme of last year was family health, or the lack of it. Of that, my second child was ill several times with viral infections, including Covid-19 at least once, early last year. He had low-energy following that, especially given that he was ill again before the summer. Over the summer he seemed to be recovering, but the first week back in September he was ill again, and has never really recovered from that. This has dragged on…
Read MoreFeb. 11, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Quiet again this week, which is nice. Django On the Fellowing front I was able to knock-off one PR that had been lining the bottom of the list for a long-time. That’s a big win. It’s only one ticket, but the list develops a kind-of hard centre that can be hard to break. You need a window to sit down with the hard ones to progress them. Other than that, I progressed some WIP updates for Selenium v4, and it was the usual mix of triage and review. Fellow Report for 2021 WK 41 Button I’ve finally…
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What is Django 4.0? For Django 4.0 we’d like to do something to call out the contributors, especially new ones. Will and I discussed some reasons for this in the recent Django Chat episode on Django 4.0, but the long-and-short is that it’s about continuing to try to make the project more welcoming, and so sustainable in the long term. A first pass at identifying the contributors to Django 4.0 is to look at the commits to the django/django repo. There’s more to it than that, but it’s a good sta…
Read MoreFeb. 11, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
New Setup For the first time in eight years, I was setting up a Mac this week. Chats about setups always seem to go well, so I thought I’d log a few points. Getting Started I don’t change device often, so I always set up as a new device, rather than trying to restore from a backup. This allows me to do a review and clean up of what’s installed, and helps insure I can pass the Bathtub Test. The Bathtub Test (A thought experiment): You drop your laptop in the bath. Nothing on it is recoverable…
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Finding the new (and old) contributors to Django 4.0 Previously, we identified contributors to Django 4.0 by those who’d committed to the django/django repo during the 4.0 development cycle. To reiterate, that’s not everybody who contributed, or every contribution (by a long shot) but it’s a good start. New Contributors One thing we wanted to do was to call out new contributors. To achieve that, we can compare the set of committers to Django 4.0 to the set of committers to before Django 4.0. …
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