Request to upgrade DJango

[Adam Young]

On 04/17/2012 02:10 PM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 17/04/12 19:43, Adam Young wrote:
>> While looking into EPEL support for Openstack, we came across the issue
>> that EPEL ships with 1.2.7 and Openstack expects 1.3. Upon looking at
>> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/releases/1.3/#backwards-incompatible-changes-in-1-3 
>>
>> I see that one of the major differences is protection against XSRF. This
>> alone is sufficient reason to upgrade.
>>
>> Installing an RPM from the Sourceforge site worked well with Openstack,
>> so it seems to fit our needs as well.
>>
>> Are there any objections to upgrading EPEL's version of Django To the
>> latest?
> Umh, my fault. I'm planning to upgrade django for epel6 to version 
> 1.3.x since two weeks now; sadly, real life kept me really busy.
>
> There have been some requests to upgrade to version 1.4 (to skip 
> 1.3.x). I'm aware of at least one application, which would break, if 
> we upgrade to django-1,4: reviewboard.
> So, I'd do an update to django-1.3.1 in the next few days. An 
> additional reason to upgrade is, that django developers only support 
> the two latest versions, so 1.2.7 is not actively maintained any more.


If you can provide a 1.4 RPM,  I am willing to test Openstack against 
it.  I suspect we can move to that more slowly,  but we'll be ahead of 
the curve.