Django internals — Django documentation

Django internals

Documentation for people hacking on Django itself. This is the place to go if you’d like to help improve Django or learn about how Django is managed.

• Contributing to Django
  • Advice for new contributors
  • Reporting bugs and requesting features
  • Triaging tickets
  • Writing code
  • Writing documentation
  • Localizing Django
  • Committing code
• Mailing lists
  • django-users
  • django-developers
  • django-i18n
  • django-announce
  • django-updates
• Organization of the Django Project
  • Principles
  • Mergers
  • Releasers
  • Technical board
  • Changing the organization
• Django’s security policies
  • Reporting security issues
  • Supported versions
  • How Django discloses security issues
  • Who receives advance notification
  • Requesting notifications
• Django’s release process
  • Official releases
  • Release cadence
  • Deprecation policy
  • Supported versions
  • Release process
• Django Deprecation Timeline
  • 4.0
  • 3.1
  • 3.0
  • 2.1
  • 2.0
  • 1.10
  • 1.9
  • 1.8
  • 1.7
  • 1.6
  • 1.5
  • 1.4
  • 1.3
• The Django source code repository
  • High-level overview
  • The master branch
  • Stable branches
  • Tags
• How is Django Formed?
  • Overview
  • Prerequisites
  • Pre-release tasks
  • Preparing for release
  • Actually rolling the release
  • Making the release(s) available to the public
  • Post-release
  • New stable branch tasks
  • Notes on setting the VERSION tuple