I posted a message on django-developers since I think that is a more common place for discussions to changes in django itself and Russ McGee responded there:
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/4cbc121bba0c134e Here is the tail end of that response. I suggest following up the discussion there unless I have completely missed the difference between the users and developers list (my impressions synch with Russ's comments so I think I'm right).
There is no formal distinction - users are the set of people interested in using Django to develop websites, whereas developers are those interested in contributing to improve Django itself. Anyone is welcome to be a member of either group. Inside the developers, there are the core developers (such as myself) that have commit access to the repository, and branch developers that have commit access to a particular branch of Django. There is a subset of the core developers (Adrian and Jacob) that have administrator access to the repository and can grant commit access to various parts of the tree. Branch developer status will generally be granted to anyone that has a good idea, and can demonstrate that they will be able to deliver what they promise (a prototype implementation is the usual minimum benchmark). Core developer status is the next step, once a reputation for consistent contribution to the community is established. > Any idea what the status is on the potential for a branch, or for > Victor's changes getting rolled into the schema evolution branch? I've > volunteered to put some work into this on the other discussion but am > not sure what the next steps are or who will make those decisions. At the moment, the ball is in Victor's court - he has presented a prototype implementation, so if he wants to champion this cause, he needs to contact Jacob and request SVN access to the schema evolution branch. At that point, he will be the integration person for that branch, so if you want to contribute, he will be the person to coordinate with. If Victor doesn't want the champion role, then the floor is open for someone to step up, with some sample code to prove that they are capable of completing the task. Yours, Russ Magee %-)
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