On May 7 Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote a blog post on djangoproject.com about the status of Django 1.1. One of the things you really like as a web developer using Django is:
We’ll ship Django 1.1 when it’s stable, and not a moment before.
This really makes sense and we love the django developers for it. But right after he writes:
Thanks for your understanding, and watch this space for updates.
There haven’t been any updates yet. And at that time – according to the blog post it self – there were about 50 open bugs. Now there is only one. Why in gods names haven’t there been any updates? We’re a lot of people waiting for the release and we understand why we’re waiting. At least give us something to read while we’re waiting.
Update: I regret to say it happening again. 8 days ago the 1.1 release candidate was born, and the promise was that we would see the final release if no show-stopping bugs where found in the mean time. As far as I can see in the issue tracker, no such bug has been found. But still no release, and more importantly, no blog post or other communication explaining why. I know it’s only one day overdue, but why not just make a blog post, a tweet.. something about the release status.
Update II: Fantastic. Django 1.1 was just released. Hopefully we’ll see regular updates in the future from the team.