1. Django 1.6 and beyond:
The Django Roadmap
Dr Russell Keith-Magee
PyCon Russia 2013

3. How far have we come?
• First public release: July 2005
• Django 1.0: September 2008
• Django 1.1: July 2009
• Django 1.2: May 2010
• Django 1.3: March 2011
• Django 1.4: March 2012

4. Django 1.5: For certain
• Custom User models
• Python 3 support
• Streaming responses
• New tutorials, improved docs

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/w_yvr/385795834/

6. Custom User Models:
A case study
• ~2005: Proposed
• Nov 2006: Ticket #3011 opened
• Jan 2012: Summary Wiki page
• Apr 2012: BDFL decision
• Apr 2012: A different BDFL decision
• Sep 2012: Committed

7. What’s missing?

8. Short term
(1.6/1.7, high accuracy)

9. App Refactor

10. Schema Migration

11. Composite Primary Keys

12. Increased decoupling

13. Admin 2.0

14. Release schedule

15. Singleton cleanup

16. Long term
(low accuracy)

17. Better sharing with the
rest of the Python world

18. SQLAlchemy

19. “NoSQL”

20. Extinction events

21. Real time
(said Russell, cringing)

22. Server/client separation

23. JavaScript

24. Mobile

25. How do we
make great ideas
happen?

26. Per aspera ad astra

27. Questions
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russell@keith-magee.com
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