[Tooling] Consider Upgrading to Django 3.0 and DRF 3.11

BethanyG commented 4 years ago

With Django 3.11 in mainstream release, and LTS for Django 2.2 series due to end in 2022, we might want to research/consider upgrading as far as we can while we are still pre-production deployment for the site. Better to take the compatibility hits now than try to do so after we have users and data to support.

A quick rundown of Libraries and compatibilities:

Library	Current Version	Version of Django Supported	Notes	URL of Project
django	2.2.4	Up to 3.11		https://www.djangoproject.com/
django-allauth	0.39.1	2.0+		https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
django-celery-beat	1.5.0	Up to 2.11 (later unknown)	Not currently used, might be in future	https://github.com/celery/django-celery-beat
django-cors-headers	3.0.2	Up to 3.11		https://github.com/adamchainz/django-cors-headers
django-crispy-forms	1.7.2	Up to 3.11		https://github.com/django-crispy-forms/django-crispy-forms
django-environ	0.4.5	Up to 3.0		https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ
django-filter	2.2.0	Up to 3.0		https://github.com/carltongibson/django-filter
django-model-utils	3.2.0	3+		https://github.com/jazzband/django-model-utils
django-redis	4.10.0	2.2+	Not currently used, might be in future	https://github.com/niwinz/django-redis
django-taggit	1.2.0	1.11+		https://github.com/jazzband/django-taggit
djangorestframework	3.10.2	Up to 3.0		https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework
coreapi	2.3.3	NA (depends on python version)		https://github.com/core-api/python-client
django_taggit_serializer	0.1.7	Unknown	In use, could break with new version	https://github.com/glemmaPaul/django-taggit-serializer
drf-jwt	1.13.4	1.11+		https://github.com/Styria-Digital/django-rest-framework-jwt
django-rest-auth	0.9.5	Unknown	In use, could break with new version	https://github.com/Tivix/django-rest-auth
django-rest-authtoken	2.1.3	Unknown	Not currently in use	https://pypi.org/project/django-rest-authtoken/

lpatmo commented 4 years ago

👏 👏 👏

So in terms of testing this out, I imagine the process could be:

create a new branch
upgrade Django to 3.11
test out which dependencies break

BethanyG commented 4 years ago

Yup! Agree. But I think I want to figure out the Registration flow before we do that - it is feeling really messy and brittle, and I don't want to add to the mess of things that might break. Thoughts?

lpatmo commented 4 years ago

Yeah, definitely. Let's figure out registration first!