Will 0.96 have support for fixtures (a la #2333)? Also, am I the only one waiting for them? ;)
Regards, Manoj On Feb 26, 9:56 am, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upcoming Django release, and the future > > As we sit here in warm, sunny Dallas, meditating on how next year's > PyCon will be in cold, cloudy Chicago, we're also getting ready to > push out a new release of Django, and with that there are some things > you all need to know, and as your friendly neighborhood release > manager it's my job to tell you :) > > First, the immediate future: the goal of the first part of our PyCon > sprint this year is to get Django 0.96 rolled and released. There's a > lot of cool new stuff that's landed in trunk since 0.95 (like the > testing framework and the newforms library), and we want to get it out > in an official release. > > If there's a bug that's been annoying the heck out of you and you want > it fixed before the release, this would be the time to speak up about > it. We have a fairly high concentration of Django developers all in > one place with nothing to do but code, so hopefully we'll be able to > hit a lot of stuff and get a release out very quickly (we'd like to > release 0.96 in the next day or two). > > After 0.96, though, there will be some major, backwards-incompatible > changes; several things, like the admin refactoring Jacob announced > last night, will require changes that just can't be > backwards-compatible, and will require a lot of activity on trunk for > a while. In that light, Django 0.96 is important not just for getting > all the cool features we've developed on trunk since 0.95, but also > for being a relatively easy upgrade for users of 0.95 and a stable > version to run with while we do a lot of work on trunk to get some > things into their "ready for 1.0" state. > > It's not clear right now how long it'll be between 0.96 and the next > release. In the meantime, 0.96 will serve as a pleasant mix of > compatibility and new features; a couple of things have changed (like > the location of the admin documentation views), but on the whole it > should be an easy upgrade for anyone who's already at 0.95. > > If you've got any questions about all of this, feel free to reply and > I'll do my best to answer them or delegate to someone who can. And if > you've got some free time this week and want to help us kill bugs in > the run up to 0.96, let us know and we'll be happy to show you how you > can help. > > -- > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
