Django grinds towards a version 1.0 release

For some time I’ve been singing the praises of the Django framework and have pretty much used it exclusively for any personal projects I’ve been working on.
Unsuprisingly Django has been gaining a some real momentum of late. Why shouldn’t it? Its got a brilliant collection of people driving Django, its got a great community of incredibly smart people and overall the framework offers a very comprehensive toolset for developers.

Hey it even scales, sorry you Rails guys!

Another contributing factor to Django’s success I attributed to the book phenonmen. As soon as books on emerging technologies appear in the likes of Waterstones it sudden generates a great deal of interest.

Apress has really latched on to the framework and is starting to push out a number of great books. Starting with Adrian and Jacobs excellent The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. With further books due out soon including Marty Alchin’s Pro Django, James Bennetts Practical Django Projects and another scheduled from Paul Bissex.

On the whole everything seems to be rosy. However for some time a number of developers within the community have expressed their concerns over the release policy and began to question when a version 1.0 release may be likely.

The whole version 1.0 release has been widely discussed previously, the ground swell of the people want to get Django outin the open and begin to make some ground on Rails.
Never one to shy away Jacob has stepped up to the plate and started an open and honest discussion on the roadmap to version 1.0.

The answer seems to be September. Great news for the Django community.