Admins Meeting Notes: 2026-11-11

Actions

• thanks.dev contributions updated
• 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
• Tilda: Help with inbound project transfers
• [TBD]: Explore limited control for DNS records with django unicorn
• Daniel: Update new project transfer (controls + PR template) to include:
  • update docs yaml
  • Update spreadsheet
  • https://github.com/django-commons/controls/pull/115
  • https://github.com/django-commons/membership/pull/699
• Daniel: Update new projects in docs yaml - https://github.com/django-commons/membership/pull/697
• Daniel: Update spreadsheet with new projects
• Daksh: Create automation for adding new inbound projects to the website
• Daksh: Update public notes for this meeting

Agenda

• Who is posting public notes?
  • Daksh
• Alpha-Omega update
  • Discussion with Mirko, mainly introductions with Alpha-Omega
  • They will follow-up with us
  • Alpha-Omega is the company that funds the Security in Residence program that employs Seth Larson and Mike Fielder
• Updating website for new packages
  • Is this automatic or manual?
  • Manual, but there’s a yaml file to be updated (projects.yaml)
    • Could fetch from GitHub API
    • Have the update trigger based on pull request template
• Daniel: Updated the token for GitHub and Tofu interactions
  • Will schedule a reminder for the team in X months
  • Daksh: How does a person update the Tofu state?
    • https://github.com/django-commons/membership/tree/main/terraform
    • The Integration with GitHub Actions section describes the token and it relationships.
    • This is configured as an organization secret, but is scoped to just the membership repo.
    • Daksh will try to automate creating PR to update the yml file
• Jazzband transfer
  • Thoughts:
    • Ryan: It’s gone well, it’s nice to see the positive messages from Jannis posting updates and sharing information
    • Tim: It’s been moving along well, hope others feel comfortable participating
    • Daniel: There’s room for us to use a PR template to better track things.
  • Project board https://github.com/orgs/django-commons/projects/8
    • The first two columns
  • Eventually, we need to:
    • Update project spreadsheet
    • Update website
    • Create Discussion threads for each project
    • Auditing pypi access on PyPI
    • Audit GitHub access on projects
      • Remove external contributors
    • Audit access Read the Docs, add maintainers to have access for managing things
  • Transifex
    • A project transferring into Django Commons had a project under the Jazzband Transifex org
      • Daksh created our org
    • Jannis is working to transfer the projects and/or organization to our newly created ones
• Automate new member PR merge message in issue

Meeting Notes

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