Update DEPs terminology to match current landscape #95
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| unmaintained), we want to identify it early and start looking for backup plans. | ||
| This might mean removing the dependency, taking over maintenance ourselves, | ||
| looking for funding to pay new maintainers, etc. | ||
| core contributors should re-evaluate all existing dependencies. If some |
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I wonder if this should be more specific:
| core contributors should re-evaluate all existing dependencies. If some | |
| Steering Council and Fellows should re-evaluate all existing dependencies. If some |
Otherwise, it's not really clear whose responsibility it is.
But maybe this is straying a bit far from the point of this particular PR...
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Yes, this seems like a reasonable change to me but too substantive for what I was going for here. If we didn’t think the change I went for is appropriate, I’d rather remove all changes to this DEP.
| Django core team, and a de-facto policy emerged of only requiring the lowest | ||
| common denominator: installation via direct download and ``python setup.py | ||
| Django core contributors, and a de-facto policy emerged of only requiring the | ||
| lowest common denominator: installation via direct download and ``python setup.py |
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Given this is a historical section I think it would be OK not to update the terminology here. That said, that's not a strong opinion.
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I notice we have two DEP 7s:
final/0007-official-projects.rstdraft/0007-dependency-policy.rst
It's probably out of scope of this PR to fix this, but I think the draft DEP 7 should be re-numbered.
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I’ve fixed all conflicts, I see three approvals, are we ok to merge this now? |
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Thank you @thibaudcolas! I went ahead and merged it to remove that bit of decision making from your plate. |
Follow-up to #81, and #91, updating the terminology in use to reflect current governance, with the exception of DEP 10.