What is the "Technical Team" and the "Technical Advisory Team"?

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I was looking at our team structure, there are two teams where I am not 100% clear on when it was defined and whether they still makes sense.

They are the Technical Advisory Team and the Technical Team

Technical Advisory Team

This reads to me as folks who were long term contributors who are no longer active.

They appear to have a “specialism” which is not specified.
They appear to be “contactable” without a clear way to contact any of them

I thought perhaps this is an honorary list, but if so, it feels very incomplete? Missing former BDFLs and creators of Django for example.

If this team still makes sense, I would like to know:

  • how to contact folks
  • what to contact them on
  • when someone should be added to this list

Technical Team

This reads to me as folks who are long term contributors who are still active.
I’m not sure on that because I feel Tim Graham is missing based off the definition above.

What makes someone a “veteran”? When would we “promote” a person from “Triage and Review” (active but less experienced) to the “Technical Team”?

If anyone can share a bit about the history that would really help :heart:
I want to correct my understanding before making any suggestions :+1:

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This is a March 2017 rework of the old “Django core team.” With the changes in the project’s governance since then, I’d consider it obsolete and suggest both sections be removed.

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Thank you Tim
I agree we should remove them then :+1:

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Do we want to make a section for archived teams? I think we have a record of past DSF boards.

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Yeah, I think those are vestigial and should be removed so as not to confuse folks.

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I tried to pull something basic together: Added archived teams page. by sarahboyce · Pull Request #1741 · django/djangoproject.com · GitHub

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I don’t see much value in listing past team members or past teams on the website. These teams are merely a point-in-time snapshot of many significant contributors, and I don’t think archiving them is very interesting or useful.

What could be interesting is a system where any contributor could write their “Django biography” similar to what we had with the old “Django team” page. I felt like we lost some interesting history when that page was removed. However, we would probably need a team of moderators to prevent spam and abuse.

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Yes. The old djangopeople app was good here, but unmaintained and unmoderated (so eventually shut down).

If folks are keen we could pick something similar up. (@nanorepublica This feels like something you might have an interest in…)

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Oo, yes! This could be something for the new WG to pick up at some point and could also tie nicely into the end of Djangonaut Space as well (potentially).

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Update here, I have removed the Technical team and Technical advisory team, see: Django Software Foundation | Django

I am also keeping a record/history of updates, if we ever want to publish this, I can back fill some history :+1:

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I think there’s value in knowing who has come before and what they were all involved in. Granted, this is coming from a perspective where there’s this vast amount of uncertainty of who has done what and where they were involved for me. Whereas folks who have been around longer are simply aware of it and reducing the need to have it recorded.