tl;dr
- If you are switching ESPs and liked Djrill, take a look at django-anymail.
- Djrill is seeking a new maintainer. If none emerges in a few weeks, Djrill will transition to "mature" status. It will receive security updates, but no other maintenance.
For a little over three years, it's been my pleasure to act as Djrill's primary maintainer. However, I won't be continuing in that role. My company is switching to another ESP, and I'll no longer have access to the Mandrill APIs for Djrill development and testing.
If you're a Djrill user switching to another ESP...
Please consider joining us over at django-anymail. Anymail is a Djrill fork that supports Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, and (perhaps) other feature-rich transactional ESPs.
Anymail's goal is helping you use those rich ESP features in Pythonic, Djangotic code (like Djrill did), while trying to minimize the pain of switching ESPs. It's meant to be an easy migration from Djrill (at least for your Django code). Testers and contributors welcome!
If you're staying with Mandrill...
... and would be interested in taking over maintenance of Djrill, please get in touch. (My email's in my GitHub profile.)
If no new maintainer emerges in the next few weeks, I'll transition Djrill to "Development Status :: 6 - Mature" in PyPI. It should continue working, unless/until Mandrill retires the API it uses. If any security updates are needed (there's only been one in Djrill's history), I'll do my best to release them. But I can't realistically support new features or even handle maintenance without access to Mandrill's API.
(Incidentally, since some may ask: I did reach out to Mandrill and offer to continue maintaining Djrill, if they'd be able to provide a test API key. Their response was that "testing or developing integrated services" like Djrill doesn't fit with their pivoting business model.)
Either way, thanks!
I've appreciated the participation and support of Djrill's users, and the fixes and truly constructive additions from its contributors over the past three years. Thank you for being part of Djrill.
And a special thanks to Kenneth Love and Chris Jones from brack3t, the original authors of Djrill, who have been nothing but supportive of my role as a maintainer.
Lastly, I'd like to tip my hat to the folks behind Mandrill. While we probably all wish MailChimp had allowed for a more graceful transition period, I can understand their business decision. And I think we've all benefited from Mandrill's influence on the transactional ESP market. Mandrill's introduction (back in May, 2012) brought us highly feature rich, rock solid, developer friendly transactional email, much more affordably than most full-featured transactional ESPs at the time. I have tremendous respect for the Mandrill team's "startup within a large company" experiment, and the nearly four years of value my own startup got from it.
Cheers,
Mike
For a little over three years, it's been my pleasure to act as Djrill's primary maintainer. However, I won't be continuing in that role. My company is switching to another ESP, and I'll no longer have access to the Mandrill APIs for Djrill development and testing.
If you're a Djrill user switching to another ESP...
Please consider joining us over at django-anymail. Anymail is a Djrill fork that supports Mailgun, Postmark, SendGrid, and (perhaps) other feature-rich transactional ESPs.
Anymail's goal is helping you use those rich ESP features in Pythonic, Djangotic code (like Djrill did), while trying to minimize the pain of switching ESPs. It's meant to be an easy migration from Djrill (at least for your Django code). Testers and contributors welcome!
If you're staying with Mandrill...
... and would be interested in taking over maintenance of Djrill, please get in touch. (My email's in my GitHub profile.)
If no new maintainer emerges in the next few weeks, I'll transition Djrill to "Development Status :: 6 - Mature" in PyPI. It should continue working, unless/until Mandrill retires the API it uses. If any security updates are needed (there's only been one in Djrill's history), I'll do my best to release them. But I can't realistically support new features or even handle maintenance without access to Mandrill's API.
(Incidentally, since some may ask: I did reach out to Mandrill and offer to continue maintaining Djrill, if they'd be able to provide a test API key. Their response was that "testing or developing integrated services" like Djrill doesn't fit with their pivoting business model.)
Either way, thanks!
I've appreciated the participation and support of Djrill's users, and the fixes and truly constructive additions from its contributors over the past three years. Thank you for being part of Djrill.
And a special thanks to Kenneth Love and Chris Jones from brack3t, the original authors of Djrill, who have been nothing but supportive of my role as a maintainer.
Lastly, I'd like to tip my hat to the folks behind Mandrill. While we probably all wish MailChimp had allowed for a more graceful transition period, I can understand their business decision. And I think we've all benefited from Mandrill's influence on the transactional ESP market. Mandrill's introduction (back in May, 2012) brought us highly feature rich, rock solid, developer friendly transactional email, much more affordably than most full-featured transactional ESPs at the time. I have tremendous respect for the Mandrill team's "startup within a large company" experiment, and the nearly four years of value my own startup got from it.
Cheers,
Mike