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Re:Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web app... by 1337shadow on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:12PM (#20378901)
Every once in a while someone opens an issue on a repo i maintain asking for "Django 1.11" support: 2 days ago, 20 days ago ... For me, "LTS" is a mistake indeed and and goes against any Continuous Delivery / Agile philosophy that I know of, it serves as an excuse for users to not update their software which in reality accumulates tech debt. I mean, if you're going to do very little customizations to a system then LTS might be fine, but if it serves as a base to something that's custom development from scratch, like Django, it really doesn't look like a choice that's going to pay off in the long term.
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Re:Django's goals are probably not our goals for our web app... by jsmeaton on Sunday July 07, 2019 @08:24PM (#20378954)
As a library author that’s well within your rights to determine what you’re willing to support or not.

Django has a very big user base. There are many users working on “very large sites” where the cost of “churn” is dramatic. There are threads on Django-developers right now complaining that the current model is too aggressive. Striking that balance is difficult for a heavily used framework.

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