Updated version of Django Q: Django Q2

[GDay]

I have been using library a lot and was a bit concerned that it hasn't been updated in over a year. Therefore, I have created a fork in which I have merged a few of the current open PRs. I have also pushed a few patches myself.

The new repo/package: https://github.com/GDay/django-q2. It's compatible with django-q, you don't need to change any code to make this work. Just swap the libraries.

What I have done so far:

• Updated all dependencies. Dropped support for Django 2.2 (it should still work though) and added support for the newer Python versions and Django 4.1.x.
• Removed Disque as it's outdated and now part of Redis as a submodule instead.
• I have removed the Arrow, Redis and Blessed dependency. It currently only needs django and django-picklefield to work.
  • If you need the monitor commands, then you will need to install Blessed as well.
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/677 to show function name in the logs as it runs (next to the unique id/human hash)
• Moved from Codecov to coveralls. Codecov tends to fail quite often at random, while coveralls has been very stable.
• Moved the docs to https://django-q2.readthedocs.io (and updated them)
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/674 which adds Turkish translations
• Automated publishing to pypi.
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/604 to fix a connection issue
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/603 to fix a potential security issue
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/605 to improve the admin area
• Merged https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/pull/687 to improve saving tasks
• Made testing a lot easier with docker-compose

And perhaps a few more things that I forgot.

There are a few more bugs that I have encountered with Django Q that I am going to solve over the next few days and I plan to keep the Q2 library up to date for the foreseeable future. I am also open to adding a few collaborators to make sure the project stays alive.

Also, it looks like Ilan (the author of this project) has replied a few times in this thread: https://github.com/Koed00/django-q/issues/664. If this project does indeed get brought back to life in the near future (with more maintainers), then I am happy to archive my repo and create PRs for the changes that I have made myself back to this project.

Let me know if there are any questions.

[PsychicSmurf]

This is awesome. Thank you so much for picking this up.

[jimjag]

Agreed. If you call out for additional developers/contributors/collaborators/maintainers, I volunteer.

[GDay]

@jimjag thanks! I have just added you as a collaborator. It might be better to move my repo to an organization to get some more fine-grained permission levels.

[jimjag]

Not a bad idea (about the org)...