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judgment, please bring things up on the `django-developers`_ mailing list
before making the change.
+ If you bring something up on `django-developers`_ and nobody responds,
+ please don't take that to mean your idea is great and should be
+ implemented immediately because nobody contested it. Django's lead
+ developers don't have a lot of time to read mailing-list discussions
+ immediately, so you may have to wait a couple of days before getting a
+ response.
+
* Write detailed commit messages in the past tense, not present tense.
* Good: "Fixed Unicode bug in RSS API."