Coming soon – Django 1.0 !!!
Well, the people over at Django developer group are debating over the release of 1.0. You can read the thread for all the details.
There has been quite a lot of debate going on between the users and developer of Django about the release of a new version post their 0.96 release. I have been fairly comfortable developing using 0.96 version and have been pretty much a passive observer to this whole debate.
Recently I wanted to start using Review Board for doing code reviews for some of the projects/products we work on. I went to read the instructions and they list 0.97 (duhhh !!!!) as the version of Django. It pretty much meant that I had to use the Django trunk as of that day and I am not even sure against what revision Review Board was last tested. This definitely is not a good scenario to be deploying to and add to the fact that I already have a few applications running Django 0.96. Luckily the announcement comes in good time and even though I have to wait another couple of months I am super keen to be finally able to use review board in house and also to push all the other applications to make full use of the Django 1.0 features.
There has always been a debate ( read this blog post on popularising Django from 42topics) about the one killer application or a set of reusable applications that is going to get Django a lot more credibility and traction among developers and eventually the enterprise. Irrespective of whether its the killer application or the set of reusable applications , what I faced when i saw 0.97 as the supported django version is exactly the kind of things that can stop this from happening. How are people going to be using that one killer application or that set of reusable applications if they dont even know which version of django they all depend on? With this roadmap for release 1.0 Django is going to make it much more easier for that to happen.
Till then I am happy hacking on 0.96.
