Django 1.0
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 10:40PM It's been a while in the coming, but it's here: Django 1.0!
Personally, I've never used the product. I've been doing Python web development for a long long long time and have significant investments now elsewhere, but I admire the hell out of Django. The Django project web site is a shining example of what a good site can be. As far as open source projects go, it remains one of the most approachable ones that I've seen. The Django project seems to have been able to attract like minded individuals, and their standards seem to have spread to related projects such as Satchmo.
It will be interesting to see where Django goes from here. I had my criticisms of earlier versions of the code - I saw bits that reminded me of things we were doing back in old old versions of Zope. Django did a lot of it better, but it seemed that they were going to run into some of the same lower-level source issues that we did. But recent work has cleaned a lot of that up, and their push to 1.0 has been quite amazing to watch: they kept pretty close to schedule and - most importantly - seemed to nip a lot of potential legacy issues in the bud before they became systemic and unkillable legacy issues.
I wish we could get that same team of people working on setuptools...