Admins Meeting Notes: 2026-10-28

Actions

Brian: Add to Best Practices suggested guidelines for releasing support for updated versions of Django / Python
Brian: Look into ReadTheDocs domain hijacking for packages that don’t use RTD.
Brian: Investigate django-commons.org email address
Brian: Invite Ryan to Alpha-Omega meeting
Ryan: Post this week’s meeting notes
Ryan: Create project board for transfers on our end
Tilda: Help with inbound project transfers
Daksh: Update media page with Daksh’s lightning talk from EuroPython
[TBD]: Explore limited control for DNS records with django unicorn

Who is posting public notes?
- Ryan for this meeting
Alpha-Omega outreach
- 8:30 PT Friday, send invite to Ryan
- Discussing abandoned projects and a prospective partnership
Jazzband migration
- Transition process video: https://youtu.be/jIA3xcJT9AY
- Tilda: There are three issues unassigned
- Tilda: Which checkboxes are optional?
  - Ryan: Only the Read the Docs (and Test PyPI)
- What happens if a person doesn’t have permission to transfer PyPI and/or GitHub?
  - Jannis has been granting permissions or doing the transfers
- It’s unlikely we’ll get a repo closed in a single day
  - Add the comment with the config for the repo to have them review
  - Create the PR against the project repo with the release.yml and code of conduct
- 82 project transfers, Jazzband project board: https://github.com/orgs/jazzband/projects/16
- We’re doing the transfers async, but with calendar meeting links
- Ryan: Review the checklist, where the issue is at
- Tim: I’ve assigned myself to tickets, but I’m happy to have other people re-assign to themselves
  - The assignment is to communicate to the others on the ticket who they can ping for a response. I may not get to things until the weekend though and am happy for others to step in where they can
- Ryan: Will create a project board on our side
- Tim: Add audit step for the end
  - PyPI, Read the Docs, GitHub
django-commons.org email address
- Brian to look into this.

Meeting Notes