Opened 3 months ago

Last modified 4 days ago

#36799 assigned Cleanup/optimization

Create a how-to on how to test a pre-release version of Django

Reported by: Sarah Boyce Owned by: VIZZARD-X
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In an episode of DjangoChat, there was a discussion that we need more testers of pre-released Django versions. I am in full agreement that early testers are wonderful and the more the merrier 😊

In order to encourage this, there was a proposal to have a how-to page, as there may be folks who want to do this but don't know how.

We can then link to this in our blog posts when pre-releaes are published.

This how-to probably should link to the how-to upgrade Django page, as being on the latest released version is a reasonable prerequisite.

I have also proposed us having a scheduled job to test against djangoproject.com (https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues/2391) which we may be able to link to in order to give folks an example implementation of testing against Django's main branch.

Change History (15)

comment:1 by Natalia Bidart, 3 months ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: UncategorizedCleanup/optimization

Thank you Sarah for taking the time to create the ticket! I'm in full agreement :-)

comment:2 by Parvez Khan, 3 months ago

Owner: set to Parvez Khan
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by VIZZARD-X, 10 days ago

Owner: changed from Parvez Khan to VIZZARD-X

Hello Parvez, I'm going to assign this to myself since there hasn't been any activity here in a few months and no updates from you regarding the ticket whatsoever.

comment:4 by VIZZARD-X, 10 days ago

Has patch: set

PR: https://github.com/django/django/pull/20938
Added the how-to guide for testing pre-releases as requested and verified that the docs successfully build.

comment:5 by Jacob Walls, 10 days ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:6 by VIZZARD-X, 9 days ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:7 by Jacob Walls, 9 days ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:8 by VIZZARD-X, 9 days ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:9 by VIZZARD-X, 9 days ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:10 by VIZZARD-X, 9 days ago

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comment:11 by Jacob Walls, 8 days ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:12 by VIZZARD-X, 7 days ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:13 by Tim McCurrach, 5 days ago

Patch needs improvement: set

comment:14 by VIZZARD-X, 4 days ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:15 by Jacob Walls, 4 days ago

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin
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