Admins Meeting Notes: 2026-09-30

Actions

• Brian: Add to Best Practices suggested guidelines for releasing support for updated versions of Django / Python (Brian)

• Brian: Look into ReadTheDocs domain hijacking for packages that don’t use RTD.

• Daksh: Update media page with Daksh’s lightning talk from EuroPython

• Tim: Draft public notes LLM action and initial

• Tim: Update best practices funding.yml https://github.com/django-commons/controls/issues/77

• Tim: Remove Storm’s remaining access

• All: Review the open issues, see if anything should be closed or if there’s something of interest to you

• [TBD]: Explore limited control for DNS records with django unicorn

• [TBD]: Draft message for the community around policy changes

  ## Agenda
  

• Thank you Daksh for changes to the website!
  • Brian to look into automating project list fetching
  • Daniel: The current project list isn’t ordered obviously.
    • Alphabetical would make sense to everyone looking at it
• Storm stepping down
  • Need to finalize changes
  • ✅ 1Password
  • ✅ Google Drive
  • ✅ GitHub Organization
  • ✅ Open Collective
  • ✅ PyPI
  • ✅ Google Groups
  • Forum
    • May not be relevant.
    • Confirmed not relevant.
  • ✅ Admin listing
• Tim: Public notes
  • https://github.com/django-commons/membership/pull/567
  • See the above for proposed public notes
  • Tim: Are we okay with this level of detail being included?
  • Daniel: What’s the process of publishing notes?
    • Who will publish notes after each meeting
    • There’s a playbook with the steps in the controls repo https://github.com/django-commons/controls/pull/100
• Tim: Review controls repo open issues: https://github.com/django-commons/controls/issues
  • We did triaging of old issues
  • Closed a couple
  • The rest appear valid for people to take on
  • Daniel and Brian to collaborate on the Read the Docs concern with drf-haystack to get our Django Commons account attached to it.
    • There are a few other repos as well
• Funding page on the site
  • Controls: https://github.com/django-commons/controls/pull/103
  • Membership: https://github.com/django-commons/membership/pull/570
  • Tim: Need review on the open collective page specifically, the others are probably fine
  • https://github.com/django-commons/controls/issues/77
  • Default funding yml change in GitHub: https://github.com/django-commons/.github/pull/6

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