Django 1.1 roadmap and schedule

This document details the schedule and (eventually) the roadmap for Django 1.1. For a general explanation of Django's release process and the phases of the release cycle, please refer to [FIXME: the document I haven't yet posted --JKM].

Django 1.1 Schedule

Django 1.1 will be released the week of March 16th, 2008.

The complete schedule follows. Note that dates are plus or minus a couple of days as needed.

September 15, 2008	Feature proposal phase begins (see [Version1.1Features wiki:Version1.1Features])
November 7, 2008	Deadline for feature proposals
November 10, 2008	Posting of draft 1.1 feature list
November 15, 2008	Posting of the final 1.1 feature list posted; work phase begins.
January 15, 2009	Major feature freeze: work phase ends, and all open branches must be merged by this point. Any incomplete features will be postponed.
January 20, 2009	Django 1.1 alpha.
February 15, 2009	Feature freeze; only bug fixes will be allowed after this point.
February 20, 2009	Django 1.1 beta.
March 10, 2009	String freeze
March 12, 2009	Django 1.1 rc 1.
March 16-20, 2009	Django 1.1 final

Roadmap

Features are currently being hashed out for 1.1. To propose a feature, make a post on the django-developers mailing list, and add a link to your thread at [Version1.1Features wiki:Version1.1Features].