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Feb. 2, 2025 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Just before Christmas, I was honoured to be elected to Django’s Steering Council for the upcoming 6.x cycle. With the holidays imminent, we didn’t kick off until the beginning of January, so we’ve been up and running for about a month now. Here are some of my thoughts on that first month. I’ll use “we” but I’m not speaking officially, or for the other SC members, here. We’ve been kind of quiet — making only a couple of public announcements: On the Django blog, just saying hello, and announcin…
Read MoreJan. 28, 2025 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
The Django Code of Conduct (CoC) has long been held up as a an exemplar. It’s been a direct influence on many similar efforts across numerous projects. It was an early, and strident, declaration of the values that we wish to maintain as community. It’s something we should be proud of. At the same time, we shouldn’t rest on our laurels. The CoC, alas, still leaves plenty of room for bad, and unpleasant behaviour. Folks, for their own reasons, skirt the edges of the CoC. Behaviour which clearly …
Read MoreDec. 4, 2024 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Will kicked us off early, so time for a look back at the year. Nice and quiet, which is just what I said I wanted. Most of my time was focused on my work project Paths. We’re 18 months in and going well. The product is maturing nicely, we’re reaching towards what we imagined when we set out, and more, and we still have a wee bit of runway left. So all in all we’re pleased. This year will tell if we can pick up the extra clients we need to make it truly sustainable, so that’ll be the focus goi…
Read MoreOct. 16, 2024 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Nominations are open for the next Django Software Foundation Board of Directors. Following the example of Sarah Boyce and Tim Shilling, here’s my list of DSF initiatives I’d like to see for this year. Note: these ideas are strictly ordered. The first one must be done first, and so on. Progress can’t be made any other way. I’d rather see one (the first one) succeed, paving the way for the future, than see the others fail. And there I have to add an “Again”. Read on… 1. Hire an Executive Directo…
Read MoreSept. 8, 2024 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
I’m going to try something new. For this upcoming quarter, so until the end of the year, I’m going to put aside Thursday afternoons (Europe) to be online, doing my maintenance, a kind of office hour, offering a support group to existing maintainers, and offering mentoring to new or prospective maintainers in the Django ecosystem. (More details to follow as I come up with them.) If it goes well, we can carry on beyond the new year. I feel like I’ve been banging this drum for a long time but, t…
Read MoreFeb. 15, 2024 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
Last week I was honoured to give a talk to the latest batch of Djangonauts. It’s called, Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source, and it’s just been published on the Djangonauts YouTube channel: YouTube: Know Your Limits: On Surviving Open Source I talk about why you might want to do open source, some of the dangers, and what you might want to do about that. It’s just over 20 minutes (a quick 10 on 2x) and then there’s about the same of Q&A at the end. I really enjoyed the session, and I …
Read MoreDec. 10, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
2023 in review. For the second year in a row 2023 ends with the dominant theme in life having been family ill-health. I feel like 2023 actually began in Oct 2022, when, as I was travelling back from DjangoCon US, my daughter had an accident and was hospitalized. Since then it’s been all go. My son spent most of the year being diagnosed and (kind-of) treated for a mysterious post-Covid illness that we’re still not sure exactly what to make of. He’s doing better, much better. But it’s been the…
Read MoreOct. 8, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
I’ve just released the new version v23.3 of django-template-partials. 🎁 (Actually, there’s also a 23.3post1 release as well, because I wanted the README to show up on PyPI, but you don’t need to worry about that 😜) From the CHANGELOG: This is the first major update since the initial release. It includes a number of bug fixes and adjustments from the feedback received. Thanks to everyone who has tried the package and provided feedback. Please read these notes carefully if you are upgrading fro…
Read MoreOct. 6, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
I just published the first version of a new package, django-unique-user-email. By making the email field of Django’s default User model unique, unique-user-email enables you to login-by-email without having to use a custom user model. I’ve long felt that login-by-email was the one the majority of users wanted, and that custom user models are something of a sledgehammer if you just want to crack that little nut. Unique-user-email, then, shows you how to do it without the custom user model. I…
Read MoreSept. 6, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
It's been a pretty tough year. As I've written about before, my son has had a long running illness, that has affected him for about 18 months now. Last academic year he wasn't able to return to school at all after Christmas, and has had various stays in hospital in the intervening period. Over the summer he's made good progress, and this morning, now, he's gone off in the car with his siblings, for the first day back at school. (Normally they'd walk, but we're not quite there.) I don't know …
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