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Package ecosystem statistics - Django

For more examples see timeline-of-django and 20,000 Django packages.

Source queries

all-packages-downloads.sql (BigQuery, $10 per query)
all-packages-statistics.sql (DuckDB)

Analysis queries

Here is what I had noted on the work needed:

For what it’s worth – I tried updating my report based on 2.4-edition-wcag-2.1-508-eu-en.yaml to the new 2.5 edition WCAG 2.2 here, it worked great 🌈. All I had to do was manually add the data for the additional SCs in my YAML report, then use the CLI with this PR to output Markdown and HTML. Thank you!

Diff between the 2.4 and 2.5 reports:

diff --git a/audits/acr/acr_wagtail_5.2_2.4-edition-wcag-2.1-508-en.yaml b/audits/acr/acr_wagtail_5.2_2.5-edition-wcag-2.2-508-en.yaml
index 7d634f6..d35843f 100644
--- a/audits/acr/acr_wagtail_5.2_2.4-edition-wcag-2.1-508-en.yaml

Agile project definitions

Definition of Ready (DoR)

Have we written acceptance criteria written in Given, When, Then Format (Gherkin)?
Have UX designs been added and signed off as required?
Is the technical design agreed?
Has the story been estimated by the development team?
Is the ticket [user story] broken down into its smallest deliverable component that still delivers value to the user?
Are any Dependencies (internal or external) identified that would block the user story from being completed in the sprint?

DSF President role

This is a copy of the DSF’s internal documentation on the DSF President officer role

🚧 Super rough notes, this needs filling out 🚧

Formally the President leads the Board, though that responsibility is vague.

Wagtail feature spec: Multi-tenancy

By Andy Babic, Senior Developer and Wagtail Consultant, Torchbox
23 Aug 2022

What do we mean by Multi-tenancy?

It’s a way to split up large multi-site Wagtail instances in a way that makes it easier for editors to find and manage the things that are relevant to them.

Over recent elections the data is readily available for

Elections	Total voters	Votes over first 7 days	Total votes	% 7 days	% total
6.x Steering Council	400	215	215	20%	54%
2025 DSF Board	374	76	204	20%	55%
2024 DSF Board	287	93	132	32%	46%
5.x Steering Council	268	74	74	28%	28%
2023 DSF Board	244	58	91	24%	37%

Alt text generation flow chart in Wagtail

As-is alt flow

Top-down

flowchart TD
    Start[🖼️ Image in the CMS] --> B{Vanilla image model\n alt text\n implementation?}
    B -- Yes --> G

	import { co2 } from "@tgwf/co2";

	const swdmV4 = new co2({ model: "swd", version: 4 });

	// Figures as of 2025-01-23
	// https://sustainablewebdesign.org/digital-carbon-ratings/
	const ratings = {
	"A+": 272.51,
	A: 531.15,
	B: 975.85,

	# Example code to demonstrate how this works in practice

	@publish_requires("date_published", block_schedule=True)
	class BlogPage(Page):
	# […]
	date_published = models.DateField("Date article published", blank=True, null=True)